d States was held in the Senate Chamber, at Philadelphia,
May 3, 1797. The societies represented, and delegates, were as
follows:

_New York Society_--Willett Seaman, Thomas Eddy, Samuel L.
Mitchell, William Dunlap, Elihu Hubbard Smith.

_New Jersey Society_--Joseph Bloomfield, Richard Hartshorne,
Joseph Sloan, William Coxe, Jr., William Carpenter.

_Pennsylvania Society_--Benjamin Rush, William Rawle, Samuel P.
Griffitts, Casper Wistar, Samuel Coates, Robert Patterson, James
Todd.

_Maryland Society_--Francis Johonnett, Jesse Tyson, Gerrard T.
Hopkins.

_Choptank (Md.) Society_--Seth Hill Evitts.

_Virginia Society_ (at Richmond)--Joseph Anthony.

_Alexandria (Va.) Society_--George Drinker.

Joseph Bloomfield was elected President; Thomas P. Cope,
Secretary; and Jacob Meyer, Door-keeper.

Communications from the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Choptank (Md.), Virginia, and Alexandria (Va.)
Abolition Societies were read. The minutes of the convention of
1797 are more elaborately compiled, and contain more statistics
than the previous reports. Among other papers adopted by the
convention, was an "Address to the Free Africans." Besides the
seven societies, which sent delegates, the eight societies
following, which sent none, were reported, viz: Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Washington (Pa.), Delaware (at Dover), Wilmington
(Del.), Chester-town (Md.), Winchester (Va.), and Kentucky
Societies. Among the memorials presented to Congress, in 1791,
was one from the Caroline County (Md.) Society. Besides the
Maryland Society, at Baltimore, there appear to have been three
local societies on the Eastern Shore of that State.

The several societies reported their membership, in 1797, as
follows: New York Society, two hundred and fifty; New Jersey
Society, "compiled partially;" Pennsylvania Society, five hundred
and ninety-one; Maryland Society, two hundred and thirty-one;
Choptank (Md.) Society, twenty-five; Wilmington (Del.) Society,
sixty; Virginia Society, one hundred and forty-seven; Alexandria
(Va.) Society, sixty-two. From the other societies no reports of
membership were received. The Choptank (Md.) Society, formed in
1790, reported having liberated more than sixty slaves; the
Wilmington (Del.) Society, re