records of the federal convention
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Friday
YATES
May 25
YATES
Friday, May 25, 1787.
Attended the convention of the states, at the state house in Philadelphia, when the following states were represented:
New-York, | Alexander Hamilton, |
Robert Yates. | |
New-Jersey, | David Brearly, |
William Churchill Houston, | |
William Patterson. | |
Pennsylvania, | Robert Morris, |
Thomas Fitzsimons, | |
James Wilson, | |
Gouverneur Morris. | |
Delaware, | George Read, |
Richard Bassett, | |
Jacob Broom. | |
Virginia, | George Washington, |
Edmund Randolph, | |
George Wythe, | |
George Mason, | |
James Madison, | |
John Blair, | |
James M’Clurg. | |
North-Carolina, | Alexander Martin, |
William Richardson Davie, | |
Richard Dobbs Spaight, | |
Hugh Williamson. | |
South-Carolina, | John Rutledge, |
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, | |
Charles Pinckney, | |
Pierce Butler. |
A motion by R. Morris, and seconded, that General Washington take the chair—unanimously agreed to.
When seated, he (Gen. Washington) declared, that as he never had been in such a situation, he felt himself embarrassed;