Produced by Bryan Ness, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND Convention of Delegates FROM THE ABOLITION SOCIETIES Established in different Parts of the United States, ASSEMBLED AT _PHILADELPHIA_, ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE, AND CONTINUED, BY ADJOURNMENTS, UNTIL THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE SAME MONTH, INCLUSIVE. [Illustration: (decoration)] _PHILADELPHIA:_ PRINTED BY ZACHARIAH POULSON, JUNR. NUMBER EIGHTY, CHESNUT-STREET, EIGHT DOORS BELOW THIRD-STREET, MDCCXCV. MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND Convention of Delegates. _Philadelphia, Wednesday, January 7th. 1795._ Agreeably to the recommendation of the Convention, held in this city last year, a number of Delegates, from the several Abolition Societies in the United States, assembled, this day, at the City Hall, when, by the credentials produced, it appeared, that the following persons had been chosen to represent their respective Societies in this Convention: _Connecticut Society._ Jonathan Edwards, Uriah Tracy, Zephaniah Swift. _New-York Society._ John Murray, junior, William Johnson, Lawrence Embree, William Dunlap, William Walton Woolsey. _Pennsylvania Society._ William Rawle, Robert Patterson, Benjamin Rush, Samuel Coates, Caspar Wistar, James Todd, Benjamin Say. _Delaware Society._ Richard Bassett, John Ralston, Allen McLane, Caleb Boyer. _Wilmington Society_ (_state of Delaware_.) Cyrus Newlin, James A. Byard, Joseph Warner, William Poole. _Maryland Society._ Samuel Sterett, Adam Fonerdon, Joseph Townsend, Joseph Thornburgh, George Buchanan, John Bankson, Philip Moore. _Chester-town Society_ (_state of Maryland_.) Edward Scott, James Houston. Of whom the following appeared and took their seats, _viz._ Jonathan Edwards, Uriah Tracy, Zephaniah Swift, William Johnson, Lawrence Embree, William Dunlap, William Walton Woolsey, William Rawle, Robert Patterson, Benjamin Rush, Samuel Coates, Caspar Wistar, James Todd, Benjamin Say, Richard Bassett, Caleb Boyer, Cyrus Newlin, Joseph Warner, Samuel Sterett, Joseph Townsend, Joseph Thornburgh, John Bankson, Philip Moore, Edward Scott, James Houston. The Convention proceeded to the election of a President, and, on counting the ballots, it appeared, that Benjamin Rush was duly elected. Walter Franklin, one of the Secretaries of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, was appointed Secretary, and Joseph Fry, Doorkeeper. Agreed, That all questions, which shall come before this Convention, be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present, and that every motion, when seconded, shall, if required by the President, or any member, be reduced to writing.