In Grateful Commemoration of the Signing of the Constitution

The Constitution was signed in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, with William Jackson as secretary and George Washington as president and deputy for Virginia. The delegates named were George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, and Jacob Broom of Delaware; Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, and Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania; William Livingston, David Brearley, William Paterson, and Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey; William Few and Abraham Baldwin of Georgia; William Samuel Johnson and Roger Sherman of Connecticut; Nathaniel Gorham and Rufus King of Massachusetts; James McHenry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, and Daniel Carroll of Maryland; John Rutledge, Charles Gotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, and Pierce Butler of South Carolina; John Langdon and Nicholas Gilman of New Hampshire; George Washington, John Blair, and James Madison, Jr. of Virginia; Alexander Hamilton of New York; and William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, and Hugh Williamson of North Carolina. The states ratified the Constitution on these dates: Delaware, December 7, 1787; Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787; New Jersey, December 18, 1787; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts, February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788; South Carolina, May 23, 1788; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788; Virginia, June 26, 1788; New York, July 26, 1788; North Carolina, November 21, 1789; and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, May 29, 1790.

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