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;
