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Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Maryland; April 28, 1788. (1)

In Convention of the Delegates of the People of the State of Maryland 28 April 1788.

We the Delegates of the people of the State of Maryland having fully considered the Constitution of the United States of America reported to Congress by the Convention of Deputies from the United States of America held in Philadelphia on the seventeenth Day of September in the Year Seventeen hundred and eighty seven of which the annexed is a Copy and submitted to us by a Resolution of the General Assembly of Maryland in November Session Seventeen hundred and eighty seven do for ourselves and in the Name and on the behalf of the People of this State assent to and ratify the said Constitution.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names-
RICHD BARNES
CHARGES CHILTON
N LEWIS SEWALL
WM TILGHMAN.
DONALDSON YEATES
ISAAC PERKINS
WILLIAM GRANGER
JOSEPH WILKINSON
CHARLES GRAHAME
JNo CHESLEY Junr
W. SMITH
G. R. BROWN
J PARNHAM
ZEPH. TURNER
MICHAEL JENEFER STONE
R. GOLDSBOROUGH junr
EDWD LLOYD
JOHN STEVENS
GEORGE GALE
HENRY WAGGAMAN
JOHN STEWART
JOHN GALE
Ns HAMMOND
ABRAHAM FAW
WM PACA
J RICHARDSON
WILLIAM RICHARDSON
MATT: DRIVER
PETER EDMONDSON
JAMES McHENRY
JOHN COULTER
GEO: PLATER President-
DANIEL SULLIVAN
JAMES SHAW
JOS: GILPIN
H HOLLINGSWORTH
JAMES GORDON HERON
SAML EVANS
FIELDER BOWIE
OSB SPRIGG
BENJAMIN HALL
GEORGE DIGGES,
NICHOLAS CARROLL.
A C. HANSON
JA. TILGHMAN
JNo SENEY
JAMES HOLLYDAY
WILLIAM HEMSLEY
PETER CHAILLE
JAMES MARTIN
WILLIAM MORRIS
JOHN DONE
THS JOHNSON
THO. S. LEE
RICHARD POTTS
THOMAS SPRIGG
JOHN STULL
MOSES RAWLINGS
HENRY SHRYOCK
THOS CRAMPHIN
RICHD THOMAS
WILL DEAKINS Junr
BEN: EDWARDS

Attest-WM HARWOOD Clk.

(1) Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894), pp. 121, 122. Back

Source:
Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States.
Government Printing Office, 1927.
House Document No. 398.
Selected, Arranged and Indexed by Charles C. Tansill
127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511.