1784] 



REV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. 



115 



The churches of Maryland and Pennsylvania being now, as we 

 have said, in sufficient accord, and their principles such, in the 

 main, as churchmen could generally admit, the general conven- 

 tion, which the clergy and laymen who had been at New Bruns- 

 wick in May had recommended should take place at New York, 

 on the 6th of October, 1784, now took place. There came to this 

 Convention 



From Massachusetts and f 



Rhode Island, 

 Connecticut, 



New York, 



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The Rev. Samuel Parker. 



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Pennsylvania, 



New Jersey, 



Delaware, 

 Maryland, 



The Rev. J. R. Marshall. 



The Rev. Messrs. Samuel Provoost, 

 Abraham Beach, Benjamin Moore, 

 Joshua Bloomer, Leonard Cutting, 



' and Thomas Moore, with the Hon, 

 James Duane and Marinus Millet 



^and John Alsop, Esquires. 



The Rev. Drs. White and Magaw, 

 the Rev. Mr. Joseph Hutchins, 

 \ with Mathew Clarkson, Richard 



I Willing, Samuel Powcl and Richard 



(^Peters, Esquires. 



{The Rev. Uzal Ogden, John De 

 Hart, Esq., John Chetwood, Esq., 

 with Mr. Samuel Spragg. 



{The Revs. Sydenham Thorn and 

 Charles Henry Wharton, with Mr. 

 Robert Clay. 



The Rev. Dr. William Smith. 



The Rev. David Griffith (afterwards Bishop-elect of Virginia) 

 was present by permission, but not as a delegate — the clergy of 

 Virginia, by laws of that State then in force, being restricted from 

 sending delegates. 



Of this body, Dr. Smith was chosen President ; the Rev. Benja- 

 min Moore, afterwards the excellent and honored Bishop of New 

 York, being the secretary. 



The body recommended to the clergy and congregations of their 

 communion in the States represented as above, and proposed to 

 those of the other States not represented, that as soon as they 

 should have organized themselves in the States to which they 

 respectively belonged, agreeably to such rules as they should 



