[589]. Above, p. 69. Blair, The Virginia Convention of 1788, Vol. I, pp. 56–57. Only freeholders could sit in the Convention.
[590]. North Carolina Assembly Journals, 1785–1789, p. 22.
[591]. Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II, p. 83.
[592]. Libby, Geographical Distribution of the Vote on the Federal Constitution, p. 26, and note.
[593]. Article cited below, p. 243.
[594]. McKinley, Suffrage Franchise in the English Colonies, p. 420.
[595]. Dr. J. F. Jameson, “Did the Fathers Vote,” New England Magazine, January, 1890.
[596]. A detailed statement of the vote in many Connecticut towns on the members of the state convention could doubtless be compiled after great labor from the local records described in the report on the public archives of Connecticut, Report of the American Historical Association for 1906, Vol. II.
[597]. Harding, The Federal Constitution in Massachusetts, p. 55, note 3. The Connecticut Courant gives the number as 763, December 17, 1787.
[608]. The Journal for June 5 reports the Anti-Federalist ticket carried in Washington County by a vote of two to one.