“William Pierce to William Short,” July 25, 1787. In Supplement to Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, edited by James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. https://consource.org/document/william-pierce-to-william-short-1787-7-25/20130122080401/.

Dear Sir,¹

. . . In January last I look my seat in Congress and continued until May, when I met the Delegates from the different States, in Convention, at Philadelphia. After continuing in that Council until all the first principles of the new Government were established, I came on again to New York, and am now in Congress. The business of the Convention is now going on with some degree of harmony. I dare not communicate any of its proceedings. . . .