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From the City and County of New York, and other counties in the province of New York.

From the county of Suffolk, in the province of New York.

From New-Jersey.

From Pennsylvania.

From New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware.

From Maryland.

From Virginia.

From South Carolina.

The Congress proceeded to the choice of a President, when the Honble/. Peyton Randolph, Esqr/. was unanimously elected.^[1]

Mr. Charles Thomson was unanimously chosen Secretary.^[2]

The gentlemen from the several Colonies produced their respective credentials, which were read and approved & are as follows:

1. The nominations of both Randolph and Thomson were made by Thomas Lynch. John Adams says that Duane and Jay were at first inclined to seek further for a Secretary.
2. American Quarterly Review, I, 30.