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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1787.
Five States only assembled namely Massachusetts, Connecticut New Jersey Pensylvania and South Carolina and from New York Mr [Melancton] Smith and from Delaware Mr Nathaniel Mitchell who produced credentials by which it appears that Thomas Rodney and he the said N. Mitchell and Gunning Bedford the eider esquires were on the 27 of October last elected delegates to represent the said State from the first Monday in Novr 1786 to the first Monday in Novr. 1787
[Credentials of Delaware delegates1]
[Note 1: 1 Original indorsed as read January 18, 1787, Papers of the Continental Congress, Delaware Credentials. Copied in Record of Credentials, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 179, I, p. 198--199.]
The Delaware State, To all to whom these Presents shall come, send Greeting; Whereas our General Assembly, at their Sessions of Assembly, held at Dover, on the Twenty seventh Day of this present Month of October, did, according to the Form prescribed by the Constitution, elect the Honorable Thomas Rodney, Nathaniel Mitchell, and Gunning Bedford, the elder, Esquires, Delegates to represent this State in the Congress of The United States of America, from the first Monday in November next until the first Monday in November, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven: Now know ye, that We do by these Presents, and in pursuance of the said Appointment, commissionate the said Thomas Rodney, Nathaniel Mitchell, and Gunning Bedford, Delegates to represent the said State in the Congress of The United States aforesaid, hereby vesting them severally and respectively with all and singular the Privileges, Powers and Authorities to the said Office or Place of Delegate belonging by Virtue of the said Constitution and the Appointment aforesaid: To have and to hold to them, the said Thomas Rodney, Nathaniel Mitchell, and Gunning Bedford, severally and respectively, the said Office or Place of Delegate Tho' Collins as aforesaid, during the Term aforesaid, unless they, or either of them, shall in the mean Time be superseded by our General Assembly, agreeably to the Constitution aforesaid. In Testimony whereof We have caused our Great Seal to be hereunto affixed. Witness
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His Excellency Thomas Collins, Esquire, our President, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, at Dover, the Twenty eighth Day of October in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Six, and in the Eleventh Year of our Independency.
Attest.
Ja. Booth Sy.
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