8986. WASHINGTON (City), Foundation of.—[further continued] .
Philadelphia was first
proposed, and had six and a half votes. The
half vote was Delaware, one of whose members
wanted to take a vote on Wilmington. Then
Baltimore was proposed and carried, and afterwards
rescinded, so that the matter stood open
as ever on the 10th of August; but it was allowed
the dispute lay only between New York
and Philadelphia, and rather thought in favor
of the last.—
To William Short. Washington ed. ii, 480.
Ford ed., v, 49.
(P.
Sep. 1788)
