Monday 14th. This being the day appointed for the meeting of the Convention such members of it as were in town assembled at the State House where it was found that two States only were represented—viz. Virginia and Pensylvania. Agreed to meet again tomorrow at 11 Oclock. Dined (in a family way) at Mr. Morris’s & dr[an]k Tea there.
[Diary entry: 14 May 1787]
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- Washington, George
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- 14 May 1787
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- Year: Philadelphia Journal, May-November 1787
- Month: [May 1787]
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- “[Diary entry: 14 May 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0003-0002-0004. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5, 1 July 1786 – 31 December 1789, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 237.]