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title:“Jonathan Dayton to William Livingston”
authors:Jonathan Dayton
date written:1787-7-13
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Dayton, Jonathan. "Letter to William Livingston." Supplement to Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Ed. James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. 167. Print.
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Jonathan Dayton to William Livingston (July 13, 1787)

Philadelphia July 13th 1787
Sir I have the mortification to inform your Excellency that, altho' we have been daily in Convention, we have not made the least progress in the business since you left us. It is unnecessary and would perhaps be improper, to relate here the causes of this delay. They will very readily occur to your Excellency from your knowledge of them heretofore.
I must request that your excellency will be pleased agreably to the arrangement made at parting, to return to this place on Tuesday or Wednesday next at the farthest.
Mr. Paterson must leave this town the first day of August, and I must consequently be here to relieve him the last day of this month, let my stay at home be ever so short. I shall therefore at best have ten days.
I have the honor to be Your Excellency's most obedient very humble servant Jonathan Dayton

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