5. September 13. Plan of a Constitution, brought in by a committee of revision, appointed on the 8th of September, consisting of five members, to revise the style and arrange the articles agreed to by the Convention.
The second and fourth of these papers are among those deposited, by President Washington, at the department of state.
The first, fourth, and fifth, are among those transmitted by General Bloomfield.
The third is collected from the proceedings of the Convention, as they are spread over the Journal from June 19th to July 26th.
This paper, together with the plan of Mr. C. Pinckney, a copy of which has been furnished by him, and the propositions of Mr. Patterson, included among the papers forwarded by General Bloomfield, comprise the materials upon which the first draft was made of the Constitution, as reported by the committee of detail, on the 6th of August.
| From | Attended | ||
| New Hampshire | 1. | John Langdon, | July 23, 1787 |
| John Pickering, | |||
| 2. | Nicholas Gilman, | July 23. | |
| Benjamin West, | |||
| Massachusetts | Francis Dana, | ||
| Elbridge Gerry, | May 29. | ||
| 3. | Nathaniel Gorham, | May 28. | |
| 4. | Rufus King, | May 25. | |
| Caleb Strong, | May 28. | ||
| Rhode Island | [No appointment.] | ||
| Connecticut | 5. | Wm. Sam. Johnson, | June 2. |
| 6. | Roger Sherman, | May 30. | |
| Oliver Ellsworth, | May 29. | ||
| New York | Robert Yates, | May 25. | |
| 7. | Alexander Hamilton, | do. | |
| John Lansing, | June 2. | ||
| New Jersey | 8. | William Livingston, | June 5. |
| 9. | David Brearly, | May 25. | |
| William C. Houston, | do. | ||
| 10. | William Patterson, | do. | |
| John Nelson, | |||
| Abraham Clark, | |||
| 11. | Jonathan Dayton, | June 21. |
