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George H. Spierin, A. M., Rector of St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy. 



John Cox, Robert Strettell Jones, Samuel Ogden, Lay Deputies 

 from New Jersey. 



Samuel Magaw, D. D., Rector of St. Paul's Church, and Vice-Provost 

 of the University of Pennsylvania; Robert Blackwell, D. D., Senior 

 Minister in Christ Church, and St. Peter's, Philadelphia; Joseph Pil- 

 MORE, Joseph G. J. Bend,* Clerical Deputies from Pennsylvania. 



Francis Hopkinson, Samuel Powell, Tench Coxe, Gerardus Clark- 

 son, Lay Deputies from Pennsylvania. 



Joseph Coudon, A. M., Siephen Sykes, A. M., Clerical Deputies from 

 Delaware. 



James Sykes, Lay Deputy of Delaware. 



Thomas J. Claggett, D. D., Colin Ferguson, D. D.,t John Bissett, 

 A. M.,J Clerical Deputies from Maryland. 



Richard B. Carmichael, Wm. Frisby, Lay Deputies from Maryland. 



Robert Andrews, Lay Deputy from Virginia. 



Robert Smith, D. D., Rector of St. Philip's Church, Principal of 

 Charlestown College, Clerical Deputy from South Carolina. 



W. W. Burrows, Wm. Brisbane, Lay Deputies from South Carolina. 



The following named clergy of the city of Philadelphia of nearly 

 every denomination testified their approbation by annexing their 

 names as subscribers, viz.: 



Francis Beeston, Rector of the Catholic Church of St. ]\Iary. 

 Nicholas Collin, D. D., Rector of the Swedish Church. 

 Henry Helmuth, D. D., Minister of Zion's and Michaelis 

 churches. 



* Joseph Grove John Bend, D. D., a native of New York, ordained by Bishop Pro- 

 voost in 1787. He went to Pennsylvania, and was Assistant Minister of Chri-t Church 

 in 1789. He afterward removed to Baltimore, and in 1791 became Rector of St. Paul's 

 Parish, Baltimore county. He was preacher to the convention in 1808, and was always 

 Secretary to the Maryland Convention, member of the Standin;^ Committee, and dele- 

 gate to the General Convention. He published three occasional sermons, and edited 

 a number of works for distribution. He died in 1812, aged 53. 



f Colin Ferguson, D. D., a native of Kent county, Md., brought up a Presbyterian, 

 ordained in 1785 by Bishop Seabury, of Connecticut, and became Rector of .St. Paul's, 

 Kent, which he resigned in 1799; was President of Washington College, Chestertown, 

 from 1789 to 1805. Died in 1806, aged 55. — Allen. 



\ John Bissett, A. M., a native of Scotland, brought up in the church, ordained in 

 1786 by Bishop Seabury, and in 1787 became Rector of South Sassafras, Kent county, 

 Md.; in 1790 of North Sassafras, Cecil. He was Secretary to the convention, four 

 times member of the Standing Committee, and delejT.-rte to the General Convention. 

 Published two sermons. In 1793 removed to New York. Died in iSio, aged 48. — . 

 Allen. 



