Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States
Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Maryland
Selected, Arranged, and Indexed by Charles C. Tansill
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
GEO: PLATER President
RICHD BARNES
DANIEL SULLIVAN
CHARLES CHILTON
JAMES SHAW
N LEWIS SEWALL
JOS: GILPIN
WM TILGHMAN.
H HOLLINGSWORTH
DONALSON YEATES
JAMES GORDON HERON
ISAAC PERKINS
SAML EVANS
WILLIAM GRANGER
FIELDER BOWIE
JOSEPH WILKINSON
OSB SPRIGG
CHARLES GRAHAME
BENJAMIN HALL
JNO CHESLEY Junr
GEORGE DIGGES,
W. SMITH
NICHOLAS CARROLL.
G. R. BROWN
A C. HANSON
J PARNHAM
JA. TILGHMAN
ZEPH. TURNER
JNO SENEY
MICHAEL JENEFER STONE
JAMES HOLLYDAY
R. GOLDSBOROUCH junr
WILLIAM HEMSLEY
EDWD LLOYD
PETER CHAILLE
JOHN STEVENS
JAMES MARTIN
GEORGE GALE
WILLIAM MORRIS
HENRY WAGGAMAN
JOHN DONE
JOHN STEWART
THS JOHNSON
JOHN GALE
THO. S. LEE
NS HAMMOND
RICHARD POTTS
ABRAHAM FAW
THOMAS SPRIGG
WM PACA
JOHN STULL
J RICHARDSON
MOSES RAWLINGS
WILLIAM RICHARDSON
HENRY SHRYOCK
MATT: DRIVER
THOS CRAMPHIN
PETER EDMONDSON
RICHD THOMAS
JAMES MCHENRY
WILL DEAKINS Junr.
JOHN COULTER
BEN: EDWARDS
AttestWM HARWOOD Clk.
Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894), pp. 121, 122.
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