1. For a summary of the states’ ratification, see Samuel Allyne Otis’ 7 July letter, and note 1, below. The New York State ratification convention met in Poughkeepsie on 17 June. The 65 delegates’ discussion centered on questions of representation and taxation, and the Antifederalists proposed numerous amendments. The New York delegates moved slowly through their debates, hampered by the complexity of the issues, the number of proposed amendments, and their limited daily meeting hours. On 26 July they ratified in a 30 to 27 vote, recommending over thirty amendments, mainly put forth by Gov. George Clinton’s Antifederalist bloc. Their proposals included a six-week limit on the use of the New York militia outside the state, a call for Congress to requisition the states for any direct taxes, and the drafting of a bill of rights. Caught between warring groups—with the Antifederalists in tight control of the assembly and the state senate dominated by Federalists—New York finally sent representatives to the House and Senate in April and July, respectively (Maier, Ratification description begins Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788, New York, 2010. description ends , p. 344, 348, 354–372, 395, 396–397; AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 8:272, 326).