Founding America_ Documents From the Revolution to the Bill of Rights Part 26

John Holroyd ( 1735-1821 ), first earl of Sheffield.

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Of these 542 are on the eastern sh.o.r.e [Jefferson's note].

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Of these, 22,616 are eastward of the meridian of the north of the Great Kanhaway [Jefferson's note].

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To bid, to set, was the ancient legislative word of the English ... [Jefferson's note].

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June 4, 1781 [Jefferson's note].

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Crawford [Jefferson's note]. Jefferson refers to the published experiments of Adair Crawford, a British physician and chemist.

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The instrument proper to them is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa, and which is the original of the guitar, its chords being precisely the four lower chords of the guitar [Jefferson's note].

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Poet Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784), born in Africa, was captured, enslaved, and sold to a Boston family who reared her in Christianity and educated her in arts and letters.[image]

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gnatius Sancho ( 1729-1780) was born on a slave ship, carried to England as a toddler, and given to three spinster sisters at Greenwich. He eventually gained the patronage of the Montagu family, who employed him as a butler and educated him. He became a poet, playwright, and composer.

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Jefferson refers to the main character in the novel Tristram Shandy Tristram Shandy ( 1759-1767), by Laurence Sterne, which Jefferson reputedly always carried. ( 1759-1767), by Laurence Sterne, which Jefferson reputedly always carried.

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"Regarding the heretic who is to be burned" (Latin); reference to an English statute of 1401 that condemned those found in possession of an English translation of the Bible to be burned at the stake.

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Declaration of Rights, Article 16 [Madison's note].

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Declaration of Rights, Article 1 [Madison's note].

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ditto, Art. 16 [Madison's note].

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Declaration of Rights, Art. 16 [Madison's note].

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At the spring 1787 elections, Governor James Bowdoin (1726-1790) was defeated for reelection, presumably for his decision to suppress Shays' Rebellion, in which farmers and the poor rebelled against high taxes.

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Edmund Randolph (1753-1813), governor of Virginia.

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William Paterson ( 1745-1806), of the New Jersey delegation.

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(this plan had been concerted among the deputations or members thereof, from Cont. N. Y N. J. Del. and perhaps Mr Martin from Maryd. who made with them a common cause on different principles. Cont. and N. Y were agst. a departure from the principle of the Confederation, wishing rather to add a few new powers to Congs. than to subst.i.tute, a National Govt. The States of N. J. and Del. were opposed to a National Govt. because its patrons considered a proportional representation of the States as the basis of it. The eagourness displayed by the Members opposed to a Natl. Govt. from these different [motives] began now to produce serious anxiety for the result of the Convention.-Mr. d.i.c.kenson said to Mr. Madison you see the consequence of pushing things too far. Some of the members from the small States wish for two branches in the General Legislature, and are friends to a good National Government ; but we would sooner submit to a foreign power, than submit to be deprived of an equality of suffrage, in both branches of the legislature, and thereby be thrown under domination of the large States.) [James Madison's note]

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(This copy of Mr. Patterson's propositions varies in a few clauses from that in the printed Journal furnished from the papers of Mr. Brearley a Colleague of Mr. Patterson. A confidence is felt, notwithstanding, in its accuracy. That the copy in the Journal is not entirely correct is shewn by the ensuing speech of Mr. Wilson (June 16) in which he refers to the mode of removing the Executive by impeachment & conviction as a feature in the Virga. plan forming one of its contrasts to that of Mr. Patterson, which proposed a removal on the application of a majority of the Executives of the States. In the copy printed in the Journal, the two modes are combined in the same clause; whether through inadvertence, or as a contemplated amendment does not appear.) [James Madison's note]

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