Transcriber Notes:
This document was filled with errors and inconsistencies in spelling, punctuations, and hyphenation. For example, usually the word re-eligible is hyphenated, but sometimes it is not; sometimes; reinstated is hyphenated but sometimes it is not; and usually the comma is used as a thousand mark, but sometimes a period is used for that purpose. Sometimes vice President was used and sometimes vice-President was used. Also, the abbreviations were not uniform (e.g., MaS. v. Mass.), which were only corrected when it is was clear which abbreviation was considered correct at the time printed. Another example is the abbreviation for Resolution, which was sometimes Resol:n, sometimes Resoln, and sometimes Resol.n. Sometimes "nem: con." was used, and sometimes "nem. con." was used. The only time errors were corrected was when it was very clear that an error was made, and it was clear how the error should be corrected, and those corrections are listed below.
Throughout the document there are instances where a comma is used where one expects a period, a period is used where one expects a comma, a colon is used where one expects a comma or period, neither is used when one is expected. This instances are left as-is, except for two exceptions: where a period is missing at the end of a sentence or missing at the end of an abbreviation, both of which happened so often that those corrections were made but were not listed below.
Throughout the document, there was no consistence in the formatting of the titles for each date, (e.g., Friday Augst 10. in Convention). No attempt was made to correct such inconsistencies.
Capitalization was corrected throughout the document without comment.
Throughout the document, a singe superscripted letter is represented by that single letter preceded by a carot, and more than one superscripted letters are represented by the letters enclosed by curly brackets. Thus, the word "ye" represents a word where the "y" is normal and the "e" is superscripted; and the word "2dnd" represents a word where the "2" is normal and the "dnd" is superscripted. In both conventions, it is assumed that a dot appeared below the superscripted letters, since in the original text a dot was often (but not always) present under the superscripted letters. Thus, "2dnd" in the present text would represent a normal digit "2" followed directly by the superscripted letters "dnd" with a single dot below the set of three letters.
The Contents of Volume II. page incorrectly lists the Chronology as starting on page vii, where it starts on page v.
On page 7, "difficulty an seemed" was replaced with "difficulty and seemed".
On page 7, "Hamshire" was replaced with "Hampshire".
On page 8, a period was added after "divd.".
On page 9, removed period between "6" and "years".
On page 16, "forign" was replaced with "foreign".
On page 17, in footnote 4, "McLurg" was replaced with "McClurg".
On page 26, a period was added after "2".
On page 38, "[blank]" was inserted to mark a large blank space that appeared in the footnote.
On page 46, there is a missing opening quotation mark in the last paragraph, but it is unclear where that mark should go.
On page 47, the word "this" was capitalized in the sentence starting "This is committing too much".
On page 50, "forign" was replaced with "foreign".
On page 53, a period was added after "change of measures".
On page 76, a comma was added after the word "Virginia".
On page 81, the comma after "weights and measures" was replaced with a semicolon.
On page 112, a quotation mark was added after "40.000.".
On page 135, "Mr Kings" was replaced with "Mr King's".
On page 137, "Mr Carrols" was replaced with "Mr Carrol's".
On page 140, "in the shape it which" was replaced with "in the shape in which".
On page 143, "It" was capitalized at the beginning of a sentence.
On page 145, "Hamiltons" was replaced with "Hamilton's"
On page 146, "Will" was capitalized at the beginning of a sentence.
On page 147, the period after "the violaters" was changed to a question mark.
On page 166, "Pinkneys" was replaced with "Pinkney's".
On page 167, "[blank]" was inserted to mark a large blank space within parenthesizes.
On page 184, "Reads" was replaced with "Read's".
On page 189, a colon was added after "the General Legislature".
On page 189, a quotation mark was added after "limits of the U. States."
On page 207, "misdemesnors" was replaced with "misdemeanors".
On page 211, "there" was replaced with "There".
On page 212, "it" was replaced with "It".
On page 217, a quotation mark was added after "exports".
On page 218, a period was added after "2".
On page 228, "reflextions" was replaced with "reflections".
On page 228, "The" was replaced with "the".
On page 230, a quotation mark was added after "training".
On page 235, a quotation mark and a comma was added after "foreign State".
On page 236, a period was added after "nem: contrad".
On page 237, the quotation mark was deleted after "&c &c."
On page 242, a quotation mark was added after "a second time."
On page 248, "these" was replaced with "These".
On page 301, "2 the" was replaced with "2. The", and "6. the" was replaced with "6. The".
On page 305, "U. S" was replaced with "U. S.".
On page 305, "biennally" was replaced with "biennially".
On page 306, a quotation mark was added after "purchased for forts".
On page 314, a comma was removed after "The Senate".
On page 319, a quotation mark was removed after "the States,".
On page 324, in Footnote 58, a period was added after "united States of america".
On page 332, a quotation mark was added after "the States present". On page 399, the word "the" was shown by the printer to be inserted in the sentence. This insertion was made.
On page 414, added period were removed after some names in the signatures.
On page 440, in the index entry for Mason, which begins "doubts propriety of mutual negative", "legiture" was replaced with "legislature".
On page 457, in the index entry "Knox's letter to, 158 ;" for "Washington, George, Va.", "N. was entered in the missing blank.
Throughout the document, "Sharman" was replaced with "Sherman".
Throughout the document, one delegate is sometimes named "Dickinson" and is sometimes named "Dickenson".
In the index, entries divided by page markers were joined into single entries where possible, and the formatting of the index was regularized (e.g., periods replaced with commas for uniformity of formatting).
There was at least one mistake found in the index, but the index was not corrected to be accurate. Some of the links are to Volume 1, which will work only if there is an internet connection.