Westfall Genealogy
[Note 2: 2 This memorial, dated July 26, 1780, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, I, folio 301.]
Ordered , That it be referred to the Board of Admiralty.
The Board of War, to whom was referred the petition of Abel Westfall , brought in a report; Whereupon,
At a Board of War . July 27. 1780
Present. Col Pickering, Col Grayson, Gen l . Ward
The Board having considered the petition of Abel Westfall , referred to them by Congress, are of opinion, that the vouchers, (the best the case will at this time admit of) are sufficient to establish his claim of payment for his waggon and horses, impressed into the service of the United States in 1777, by order of Gen l . Smallwood, and therefore beg leave to report
Resolved , That the petition of Abel Westfall be referred to the Board of Treasury, to report a sum to be allowed him
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1789-1873
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1789-1873
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1789-1873 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1791
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying his reports on the petitions of John Chadwick, Nicholas Haugendobler, Nathaniel Alexander, Daniel Merrill for himself and others, Joseph Hugg, John Post, Joshua Orne for himself and others, Lewis Prahl, Stephen Clapp, Josiah Simpson, attorney for Dorcas Frost and others, Nathaniel Porter, Lawrence Allman, James Easton, Samuel Kearsley, William S. Smith, John Keehmle, and John Linn; which were read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Madison, from the committee appointed to inquire into the administration of the late Superintendent of Finance, made a report; which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Fitzsimons, from the committee appointed, presented, according to order, a bill to compensate Joshua Barney; which was received, and read the first time.
On motion,
The said bill was read the second time, and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
A petition of Nicholas Ferdinand Westfall was presented to the House and read, praying a gratuity of lands and other advantages, promised by the late Congress to those who should quit the British service, in consideration of his having left that service and joined the American Army, during the late war.
Ordered , That the said petition be referred the Secretary of State, within instruction to examine the same, and report his opinion thereupon to the House.
A petition of sundry merchants of the city of Philadelphia was presented to the House and read, stating sundry reasons in opposition to a petition of sundry other merchants of the said city, trading to India and China, praying an increase of the duties on all China and East India goods, imported into the United States from Europe.
Ordered , That the said petition do lie on the table.
An engrossed bill to establish offices for the purpose of granting lands within the Territories of the United States, was read the third time, and the blanks therein filled up.
Resolved , That the said bill do pass, and that the title be, "An act to establish offices for the purpose of granting lands within the Territories of the United States."
Ordered , That the Clerk of this House do carry the said bill to the Senate, and desire their concurrence.
Mr. Floyd, from the Joint Committee for Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined two enrolled bills, one entitled "An act for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union;" the other, entitled "An act to continue in force for a limitd time, an act passed at the first session of Congress, entitled 'An act to regulate processes in the courts of the United States." Also,
An enrolled resolve "Authorizing Andrew Brown, or any other printer, to collate with, and correct by the original rolls, the laws, resolutions, and treaties, of the United States, for the purpose of publishing new editions thereof:" and had found them to be truly enrolled: Whereupon,
Mr. Speaker signed the said enrolled bills and resolve.
Ordered , That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith.
The House proceeded to consider the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition of George Gibson; and the first part of the said report, in the words following, to wit: "That the petitioner, George Gibson, is in justice, entitled to the sum of--dollars from the United States, as a commutation for half-pay of a continental Colonel, agreeably to former resolutions of Congress; was, on the question put thereupon, disagreed to by the House."
An adjournment being then called for,
The several orders of the day were further postponed until to-morrow.
Ordered , That it be an instruction to the committee appointed to prepare and bring in a bill or bills for making compensation to widows, orphans, and invalids, in certain cases, to insert a clause or clauses pursuant to the said resolution.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, enclosing his report on the petition of Philip De Haas: Whereupon,
Resolved , That the prayer of the petition of the said Philip De Haas be so far granted, as that the Comptroller of the Treasury be directed to adjust his accounts, and to admit such sums as by evidence shall appear to have been advanced by him for public service.
Ordered , That it be an instructions to the committee appointed to prepare and bring in a bill or bills for making compensation to widows, orphans, and invalids, in certain cases, to insert a clause or clauses pursuant to the said resolution.
The House proceeded to consider the report of the Secretary of State on the petition of Nicholas Ferdinand Westfall : Whereupon,
Resolved , That one hundred acres of unappropriated lands be granted to the said Nicholas Ferdinand Westfall, free of all charges, and that there be paid to him as a farther reward, the stun of three hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighty-four cents.