The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND THE RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE FLORIDA TERRITORY BY LIMITING THE AMOUNT WHICH SHALL BE PAID IN PURCHASE OF SAID TERRITORY. (P. 1125)
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
- 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)
How each state's members voted
In 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 4 every one voted no; 10 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: 2 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 5 yes, 0 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: 6 yes, 9 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 7 yes, 7 no, 3 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: 0 yes, 1 no
- Pennsylvania: 3 yes, 13 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 6 no
- Connecticut: 7 yes, 0 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: 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 12 yes, 2 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 4 no, 1 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, 3 no
- North Carolina: 3 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 4 yes, 3 no, 1 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: 2 yes, 2 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 7 yes, 0 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 2 yes, 2 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Massachusetts 7 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Barnabas Bidwell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Ebenezer Seaver (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Isaiah Lewis Green (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Crowninshield (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jeremiah Nelson (Federalist) — YEA
- John Chandler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Barker (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Quincy (Federalist) — YEA
- Orchard Cook (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — YEA
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Taggart (Federalist) — YEA
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — YEA
- William Ely (Federalist) — YEA
- William Stedman (Federalist) — YEA
Maryland 4 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Goldsborough (Federalist) — YEA
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Campbell (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Leonard Covington (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nicholas Ruxton Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Patrick Magruder (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Roger Nelson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William McCreery (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
North Carolina 3 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Duncan McFarlan (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Winston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Marmaduke Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Blount (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Kenan (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Wynns (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Blackledge (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 5 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 6 no
New York 6 yes, 9 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Eliphalet Wickes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- George Clinton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Walter Livingston (Federalist) — YEA
- John Blake Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Russell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Masters (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — YEA
- Martin Gerretsen Schuneman (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Nathan Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Peter Sailly (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Silas Halsey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Sammons (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Uri Tracy (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Ohio 0 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 3 yes, 13 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Frederick Conrad (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Anderson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Richards (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Kelly (Federalist) — YEA
- John Hamilton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Pugh (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Rea (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 4 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Rogerson Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Elias Earle (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Levi Casey (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- O'Brien Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Marion (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Tennessee 0 yes, 3 no
Virginia 12 yes, 2 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Alexander Wilson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Burwell Bassett (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Christopher Henderson Clark (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- James Mercer Garnett (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Morrow (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Wayles Eppes (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist) — YEA
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Mann Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Walter Jones (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 2 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 141 members
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