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title:“William Blount to John Gray Blount”
authors:William Blount
date written:1787-5-30
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Blount, William. "Letter to John Gray Blount." Supplement to Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Ed. James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. 34. Print.
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source:		 Autograph Letter Signed, North Carolina Divison of Archives and History

William Blount to John Gray Blount (May 30, 1787)

William Blount to John Gray Blount New York May 30th 1787
I have before informed that an Indisposition had detained me here. I am I believe over the pain of it unless I bring it on by too much Exercise say by traveling. On the 25th seven states assembled in Convention and chose a President and Secretary and by this Time I think there are eleven States represented only New Hampshire and Rhode Island being unrepresented. I can not suppose anything definitive will be done in Convention in less than a Month and most people suppose not in less than two or three Months and I shall certainly be in Philadelphia in less than a Week....

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