Dispatch from Richmond,
Va.
The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily
Advertiser
21 April 1787
«back | home| It is with peculiar satisfaction we inform the public, that our illustrious fellow citizen, GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq. has consented to serve on the ensuing federal convention to be held in Philadelphia the second Monday in May next: and that his Excellency Edmund Randolph, Esq. proposes leaving this City early in that month, on the same business. |
The following is adapted from Abbot, W.W., ed, et al. The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 5, February - December 1787. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997), 153.