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![Continental Congress Broadside, 1777 : [April 14-15 resolves on Committee of Conference meeting with Pennsylvania officials]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3NzcvMDEvMDEvY29udGluZW50YWwtY29uZ3Jlc3MtYnJvYWRzaWRlLTE3NzctYXByaWwtMTQtMTUtcmVzb2x2ZXMtb24tY29tbWl0dGVlLW9mLWNvbmZlcmVuY2UtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/60/webp "Continental Congress Broadside, 1777 : [April 14-15 resolves on Committee of Conference meeting with Pennsylvania officials]")
![Photo of Ordinary's Certificate for Curtis Wynn, 9 years old (and therefore illegal). The Deputy Clerk told me "That was likely a clerical error." but I found five of these "errors" issued to children under 10 years old, one for a child aged 8. (The latter was later marked 'Void' but none of the rest were.) Rolly's teacher told me the family had moved, but that the boy was a mere baby with a lisp. The issuing of the certificates is very unbusinesslike. (See Vaughn's Report, Georgia. The Ordinary said, "I'm a practical man! The cotton mill people are the poorest paid workers in the country. They have to put their children into the mills." Location: [Columbus?], Georgia.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvcGhvdG8tb2Ytb3JkaW5hcnlzLWNlcnRpZmljYXRlLWZvci1jdXJ0aXMtd3lubi05LXllYXJzLW9sZC1hbmQtdGhlcmVmb3JlLWlsbGVnYWwtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "Photo of Ordinary's Certificate for Curtis Wynn, 9 years old (and therefore illegal). The Deputy Clerk told me \"That was likely a clerical error.\" but I found five of these \"errors\" issued to children under 10 years old, one for a child aged 8. (The latter was later marked 'Void' but none of the rest were.) Rolly's teacher told me the family had moved, but that the boy was a mere baby with a lisp. The issuing of the certificates is very unbusinesslike. (See Vaughn's Report, Georgia. The Ordinary said, \"I'm a practical man! The cotton mill people are the poorest paid workers in the country. They have to put their children into the mills.\" Location: [Columbus?], Georgia.")
