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Monday, September 17, 1787: The Convention TodayThe day began with a prepared speech from Franklin (PA) who, eighty-one years old and painfully afflicted with gout and kidney stone, was unable to read it himself and delegated that task to Wilson (PA). | www.nps.gov
