Congress acts

*Congress appointed a rich Philadelphia merchant named Robert Morris as superintendent of finance. His associate was Haym Salomon, a Jewish political refugee from Poland. *Morris and Salomon begged and borrowed on their personal credit to raise money to provide salaries for the Continental army. *They raised funds from many sources, including Philadelphia’s Quakers and Jews. Due to the efforts of Morris and Salomon, on September 8, 1781, the troops were finally paid in specie, or gold coin.