Congress Advises Suppression of Diversions

According to the legacy record, on October 12, 1778, the Continental Congress advised the thirteen member states to suppress "theatrical entertainments, horse-racing, gaming, and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and general depravity of principles and manners." The record also places the advice at College Hall. No supplied passage corroborates the advice, the October 12, 1778 date, or the College Hall location; the passages describe the Congress generally as a legislative body with some executive function that served as the provisional government during most of the Revolutionary War.