[639]. The full significance of the Worcester vote and property lists would involve an analysis of the distribution of each among the towns.
[640]. American Antiquarian Society Proceedings (1911), p. 65.
[641]. Ms. Treasury Department: Index to the Three Per Cents (Mass.). Gore, Dawes, and Phillips appear on the New Hampshire Journals and other Massachusetts Records.
[642]. The Index shows several holders by the name of Davis: Jonathan, James, Aaron, Susanna, John, Nathl., Joseph, Moses, Thomas, Saml., Wendell, and John G. Whether they were relatives of Caleb is not apparent. Leonard and Nathl. Jarvis also appear on the Book. Also Mary and Belcher Hancock.
[643]. All of these men except Wales and Warren appear on the Index to the Three Per Cents (Mass.). Wales and Warren appear on the books as holders of old certificates (Loan Office Certificates, 1779–1788, Mass.); and it does not appear when or how they disposed of their holdings.
[644]. See above, p. 75, note 3.
[645]. On September 3, 1787, the Connecticut Courant in a letter from Philadelphia (Aug. 24) says: “One of the first objects with the national government to be elected under the new constitution, it is said, will be to provide funds for the payment of the national debt, and thereby restore the credit of the United States, which has been so much impaired by the individual states. Every holder of a public security of any kind is, therefore, deeply interested in the cordial reception and speedy establishment of a vigorous continental government.”
[646]. Libby, op. cit., p. 14.
[647]. Ibid., p. 113.
[648]. Towns not represented or not voting in the convention are counted against the Constitution.