Extract from the minutes of the proceedings of a general meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, held in the State House yard, on Monday the 30th of July, 1792.
Subtitle: "It was moved and seconded, that a committee of correspondence, consisting of seven, be appointed to collect information of the sense of the people in different parts of the state, respecting the characters proper to be nominated as members of Congress ..."
Contributors: McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 46543.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1792
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.). -- Committee of Correspondence.; Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.
Notes: This Committee of Correspondence was the mechanism favored by the Republicans for nominating Congressional condidates; the Federalists preferred the conference, or nominating convention. Cf. Tinkcom, H.M.  Republicans and Federalists in Pennsylvania, 1790-1801 (Harrisburg, Pa., 1950)

Signed: Thomas M'Kean, chairman. Robert H. Dunkin, secretary of the meeting.

Bristol B8107.

Shipton & Mooney 46543.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 46543)