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Colonial Williamsburg Journal

Title Ridicule, Scorn, and Approbation
Issue Volume 36, Number 02, (CWJ, Spring 2014)
Description The Virginia-born delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, William Pierce Jr., a painter by inclination, a politician and farmer by necessity, maintained records of the Convention during his month's attendance. Pithy commentary and and character sketches of the Philadelphia delegates were published in 1828 in a book known as "Pierce's Reliques" after his 1788 death at 35.
Author Vile, John R.
Pages 41-45