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 I9z l{ECOI%DS OF THE FEDERAL COAIVEiNTION Monday McHENRY /lugust 6 with for and against marked opposite most of them- asked carelessly what question occasioned his being so particular upon which he told me laughing that it was no question but that those marked with a for were for a king. I then asked him how he knew that to which he said no matter the thing is so. I took a copy with his permission, and Mr. Martin seeing me about it asked What it was. I told him, in the words Mr. Mercer had told me, when he begged me to let him copy the list which I did? See Appendix A, CCIII and CCXI.

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