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North Carolina Alexander Martin
  William Richardson Davie
  Richard Dobbs Spaight
  William Blount
  Hugh Williamson
  [Richard Caswell and Willie Jones were elected but declined to serve.]
South Carolina John Rutledge
  Charles Pinckney
  Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
  Pierce Butler
  (Henry Laurens)
Georgia William Few
  Abraham Baldwin
  William Pierce
  (George Walton)
  William Houstoun
  (Nathaniel Pendleton)

Credentials

[Arranged according to the date of legislative action,—Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Delaware, Georgia, New York, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland.]

Virginia

Virginia

General Assembly begun and held at the Public Buildings in the City of Richmond on Monday the sixteenth day of October in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty six

An Act for appointing Deputies from this Commonwealth to a Convention proposed to be held in the City of Philadelphia in May next for the purpose of revising the federal Constitution.

Whereas the Commissioners who assembled at Annapolis on the fourteenth day of September last for the purpose of devising and reporting the means of enabling Congress to provide effectually for the Commercial Interests of the United States have represented the necessity of extending the revision of the fœderal System to all it’s defects and have recommended that Deputies for that purpose be appointed by the several Legislatures to meet in Convention in