Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Maryland
Maryland · 1788AUTHOR — Maryland
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<br>CHARGES CHILTON<br>N LEWIS SEWALL<br>WM TILGHMAN.<br>DONALDSON YEATES<br>ISAAC PERKINS<br>WILLIAM GRANGER<br>JOSEPH WILKINSON<br>CHARLES GRAHAME<br>JNo CHESLEY Junr<br>W. SMITH<br>G. R. BROWN<br>J PARNHAM<br>ZEPH. TURNER<br>MICHAEL JENEFER STONE<br>R. GOLDSBOROUGH junr<br>EDWD LLOYD<br>JOHN STEVENS<br>GEORGE GALE<br>HENRY WAGGAMAN<br>JOHN STEWART<br>JOHN GALE<br>Ns HAMMOND<br>ABRAHAM FAW<br>WM PACA<br>J RICHARDSON<br>WILLIAM RICHARDSON<br>MATT: DRIVER<br>PETER EDMONDSON<br>JAMES McHENRY<br>JOHN COULTER | GEO: PLATER President-<br>DANIEL SULLIVAN<br>JAMES SHAW<br>JOS: GILPIN<br>H HOLLINGSWORTH<br>JAMES GORDON HERON<br>SAML EVANS<br>FIELDER BOWIE<br>OSB SPRIGG<br>BENJAMIN HALL<br>GEORGE DIGGES,<br>NICHOLAS CARROLL.<br>A C. HANSON<br>JA. TILGHMAN<br>JNo SENEY<br>JAMES HOLLYDAY<br>WILLIAM HEMSLEY<br>PETER CHAILLE<br>JAMES MARTIN<br>WILLIAM MORRIS<br>JOHN DONE<br>THS JOHNSON<br>THO. S. LEE<br>RICHARD POTTS<br>THOMAS SPRIGG<br>JOHN STULL<br>MOSES RAWLINGS<br>HENRY SHRYOCK<br>THOS CRAMPHIN<br>RICHD THOMAS<br>WILL DEAKINS Junr<br>BEN: EDWARDS
Attest-WM HARWOOD Clk.
(1) Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894), pp. 121, 122. Back
Source:<br>Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States.<br> Government Printing Office, 1927. <br>House Document No. 398. <br>Selected, Arranged and Indexed by Charles C. Tansill