Narratives of Newark in New Jersey From the Days of Its Founding
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The oflScials of the General Committee, Isaac Ogden and Isaac Longworth, were designated members of the Committee on Correspondence, which was to supervise all communications with the Continental Congress at Philadelphia and elsewhere about the colonies. Isaac Ogden, Captain Philip Van Cortlandt, Bethuel Pier- son, and Caleb Camp were chosen representatives in the Pro- vincial Congress. Expected events, it was thought, would radically change the country's affairs, so this precautionary measure ...was adopted: Agreed, that the powers delegated to the Deputies and General Committee continue till the expiration of five weeks after the rising of the next Congress and no longer. Abraham Clark, of Elizabeth Town, wrote from the Con- tinental Congress at Baltimore on February 8, 1777, to John Hart, Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, that he expected : "Congress will soon remove to Lancaster. Our chief reason is the extravagant price of living here. The price of board without any liquor, a dollar a day, horse keeping 4s.
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