Written in Manchester, a present-day neighborhood of Richmond. Comments on the state conventions held to discuss ratification of the United States Constitution

Informs Carrington, a Continental Congressman, of Massachusetts' ratification of the Constitution. Reports that those at the convention who previously opposed t

Carrington reports, I have as yet passed through no more of this state than what is called the Northern Neck- there I find the opponents of the Constitution pre

Comments on the United States Constitution in Virginia. Notes that he was banished from the house of delegates, but returned to one of the most antifederal asse

Later copy of GLC02437.03793. A note at the top of page one states, Recd. from Mr Bancroft Feb 1857. Knox relates details of the Massachusetts ratifying convent