The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H.R. 123, AN ACT IN ADDITION TO "AN ACT REGULATING THE GRANTS OF LAND APPROPRIATED FOR THE REFUGEES OF CANADA AND NOVA SCOTIA;" TO RE-INSTATE THE CLAIMANTS UNDER THE COMPANY OF MILITARY ADVENTURERS IN…
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
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- This vote predates the chambers' digital roll-call records (Senate begins 1989, House 1990). It is reproduced from the official Journals of Congress as compiled by Voteview (UCLA).
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
What was on the floor
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
How each state's members voted
In 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 6 every one voted no; 5 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Washington: no member on this roll call
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: no member on this roll call
- North Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Minnesota: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 0 yes, 4 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 5 yes, 2 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 9 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 3 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 14 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 5 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Connecticut 3 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Tallmadge (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Calvin Goddard (Federalist) — YEA
- Elias Perkins (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Cotton Smith (Federalist) — YEA
- John Davenport (Federalist) — YEA
- Roger Griswold (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Meriwether (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Peter Early (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Fowler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Terry Davis (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 5 yes, 2 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Mattoon (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Bacon (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Lemuel Williams (Federalist) — YEA
- Manasseh Cutler (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Read (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — YEA
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Thatcher (Federalist) — YEA
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Eustis (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Shepard (Federalist) — YEA
Maryland 2 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Campbell (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Dennis (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Plater (Federalist) — YEA
- Walter Bowie (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 0 yes, 5 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Henderson (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Stanly (Federalist) — NAY
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Wynns (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Barry Grove (Federalist) — NAY
- William Henry Hill (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Abiel Foster (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- George Baxter Upham (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Hunt (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Tenney (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 3 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 0 yes, 4 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Walker (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Peter van Ness (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Latham Mitchill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Theodorus Bailey (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Morris (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 9 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Henry Woods (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac van Horne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Andre Hanna (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stewart (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Hemphill (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Boude (Federalist) — NAY
- William Hoge (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Jones (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Carolina 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Huger (Federalist) — YEA
- John Rutledge Jr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Lowndes (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Tennessee 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- William Dickson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 0 yes, 14 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stratton (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Brent (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Jordan Cabell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Branch Giles (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Israel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Richard Morris (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 107 members
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