Jun 25, 2024 - Sale 2674

Sale 2674 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
FIRST US CONGRESS: "I AM HAPPY TO BE INFORMED THAT BOTH HOUSES HAVE A QUORUM" HUNTINGTON, SAMUEL. Autograph Letter Signed, "S. Huntington," to Roger Sherman, expressing happiness that [the first] Congress has begun business, and suggesting he contact [the younger Jonathan] Trumbull and [Jeremiah] Wadsworth for information concerning CT imports. 1½ pages, small 4to, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; faint bleedthrough visible on verso, folds, addressed in holograph vertically at right edge verso. Norwich, 23 April 1789
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". . . I am happy to be Informed that both houses have a Quorum, & are proceeding in business, it will doubly give much Satisfaction to the Judicious who began to be anxious at the delay.
"With respect to the Information relative to the amount of the annual Imports into this State, I believe Colonels Trumbull & Wadsworth will give you as full Information as can be at present obtained, those gentlemen have been at home the last weeks; the former I conversed with on the Subject, who assured me they were collecting the best Intelligence on that Subject that could be found . . . ."
The first U.S. Congress met in New York City on March 4, 1789, but it required some time to reach quorum. The delay is partly explained by considering that the time and money required to serve was not borne equally among the members, some of whom were required to travel hundreds of miles--as in the case of Senators and Representatives from South Carolina. The House achieved quorum on April 1, 1789, and the Senate followed five days later.