Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Minutes of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, for the purpose of reviewing, and if they see occasion, altering and amending, the constitution of this state.
Call Number
Oversize 7813.115q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcgx41mv28v
Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Jun. in Fourth-Street, between Market-Street and Arch-Street., MDCCLXXXIX [i.e., 1790].
Language
English
Date Created
1790
Extent
222 p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
Princeton copy 2 Lapidus copy: Booklabel of Jos. H. Reneker, on front pastedown, title page, and p. 23.
Princeton copy 2 Lapidus copy: Bookplate of the Maine Historical Society, overstamped 'Withdrawn, Out of Scope, Superceded or Replaced;' the Society's ink stamp on title page and p. 33.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 2 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W36272
Evans 22764
Evans 22765
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
The Convention concluded on Sept. 2, 1790. The minutes of the second session (p. [147]-222) are recorded separately by Evans.
Signatures: [A]² B-2N² 2O1 2P-3K².
Princeton copy 2 Lapidus copy is minutes of the first session only, ending on p. 146.
Princeton copy 2 Bound with the Lapidus copy of the first session is Minutes of the Grand Committee of the whole Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (ESTC W36271).
Princeton copy 1 Ex copy with Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc. [Acts of the General assembly ... 1790?] v. 2.

Discovery Information

Subject
Pennsylvania—Constitution (1790)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
268

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e4a003e9-c982-433f-a408-645d88bdda59/manifest