Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States
Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Connecticut
Selected, Arranged, and Indexed by Charles C. Tansill
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
In the Name of the People of the State of Connecticut.
We the Delegates of the People of sd. State in general Convention assembled, pursuant to an Act of the Legislature in October last, Have assented to and ratified, and by these presents do assent to, ratify and adopt the Constitution, reported by the Convention of Delegates in Philadelphia, on the 17th day of September AD. 1787. For the United States of America.
Done in Convention this 9th day of January AD. 1788. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands.
MATTHEW GRISWOLD President:
JEREH WADSWORTH
SAML HUNTINGTON
JESE ROOT
JED HUNTINGTON
ISAAC LEE
ISAAC HUNTINGTON
SELAH HEART
ROBERT ROBBINS,
ZEBULON PECK jur
DANLE FOOT
ELISHA PITKIN
ELI HYDE
ERASTUS WOLCOTT
JOSEPH WOODBRIDGE
JOHN WATSON
STEPHEN BILLINGS
JOHN TREADWELL
ANDREW LEE
WILLIAM JUDD
WILLIAM NOYES
JOSEPH MOSELY
JOSHUA RAYMOND Junr
WAIT GOODRICH
JERH HALSEY
JOHN CURTISS
WHEELER COIT
ASA BARNS
CHARLES PHELPS
STEPHEN MIX MITCHELL
NATHANIEL MINOR
JOHN CHESTER
JONATHAN STURGES
OLIV ELLSWORTH
THADDEUS BURR
ROGER NEWBERRY
ELISHA WHITTELSEY
ROGER SHERMAN
JOSEPH MOSS WHITE
PIERPONT EDWARDS
AMOS MEAD
SAMUEL BEACH
JABEZ FITCH
DANIEL HOLBROOK
NEHEMIAH BEARDSLEY
JOHN HOLBROOK
JAMES POTTER
GIDEON BUCKINGHAM
JOHN CHANDLER
LEWIS MALLET Jr
JOHN BEACH
JOSEPH HOPKINS
HEZH ROGERS
JOHN WELTON
LEML SANFORD
RICHD LAW
WILLIAM HERON
AMASA LEARNED
PHILIP BURR BRADLEY
NATHAN DAUCHY
JOSHUA PORTER
JAMES DAVENPORT
BENJN HHINMAN
JOHN DAVENPORT Junr.
EPARHRAS SHELDON
WM SAML JOHNSON
ELEAZER CURTISS
ELISHA MILLS
JOHN WHITTLESEY
ELEPHT DYER
DANL NATHL BRINSMADE
JEDA ELDERKIN
THOMAS FENN
SIMEON SMITH
DAVID SMITH
HENDRICK DOW
ROBERT MCCANE
SETH PAINE
DANIEL SHERMAN
ASA WITTER
SAMUEL ORTON
MOSES CLEAVELAND
ASHER MILLER
SAMPSON HOWE
SAML H. PARSONS
WILLM DANIELSON
EBENR WHITE
WM WILLIAMS
HEZH GOODRICH
JAMES BRADFORD
DYAR THROOP
JOSHUA DUNLOP
JABEZ CHAPMAN
DANIEL LEARNED
CORNELIUS HIGGINS
MOSES CAMPBELL
HEZEKIAH BRAINERD
BENJAMIN DOW
THEOPHILUS MORGAN
OLIVER WOLCOTT
HEZH LANE
JEDEDIAH STRONG
WILLIAM HART
MOSES HAWLEY
SAML SHIPMAN
CHARLES BURRALL
JEREMIAH WEST
NATHAN HALE
SAMUEL CHAPMAN
DANIEL MILES
ICHABOD WARNER
ASAPH HALL
SAMUEL CARVER
ISAAC BURNHAM
JEREMIAH RIPLEY
JOHN WILDER
EPHRAIM ROOT
MARK PRINDLE
JOHN PHELPS
JEDIDIAH HUBBEL
ISAAC FOOT
AARON AUSTIN
ABIJAH SESSIONS
SAMUEL CANFIELD
CALEB HOLT
DANIEL EVERITT
SETH CROCKER
HEZ: FITCH
State of Connecticut, ss. Hartford January ninth, Anno Domini one thousand, seven hundred and eighty eight.
The foregoing Ratification was agreed to, and signed as above, by one hundred and twenty eight, and dissented to by forty Delegates in Convention, which is a Majority of eighty eight.
Certified by MATTHEW GRISWOLD President.
Teste JEDIDIAH STRONG Secretary
Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894), pp. 87-89.
