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 8th day of January AD. 1788. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands.
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MATTHEW GRISWOLD President: JEREH WADSWORTH JESSE ROOT ISAAC LEE SELAH HEART ZEBULON PECK jur ELISHA PITKIN ERASTUS WOLCOTT JOHN WATSON JOHN TREADWELL WILLIAM JUDD JOSEPH MOSELY WAIT GOODRICH JOHN CURTISS ASA BARNS STEPHEN MIX MITCHELL JOHN CHESTER OLIV ELLSWORTH ROGER NEWBERRY ROGER SHERMAN PIERPONT EDWARDS SAMUEL BEACH DANIEL HOLBROOK JOHN HOLBROOK GIDEON BUCKINGHAM LEWIS MALLET Jr JOSEPH HOPKINS JOHN WALTON RICHD LAW AMASA LEARNED NATHAN DAUCHY JAMES DAVENPORT JOHN DAVENPORT Junr WM SAML JOHNSON ELISHA MILLS ELEPHT DYER JEDA ELDERKIN SIMEON SMITH HENDRICK DOW SETH PAINE ASA WITTER MOSES CLEAVELAND SAMPSON HOWE WILLM DANIELSON WM WILLIAMS JAMES BRADFORD JOSHUA DUNLOP DANIEL LEARNED MOSES CAMPBELL BENJAMIN DOW OLIVER WOLCOTT JEDEDIAH STRONG MOSES HAWLEY CHARLES BURRALL NATHAN HALE DANIEL MILES ASAPH HALL ISAAC BURNHAM JOHN WILDER MARK PRINDLE JEDIDIAH HUBBELL AARON AUSTIN SAMUEL CANFIELD DANIEL EVERITT HEZ: FITCH |
SAML HUNTINGTON JED HUNTINGTON ISAAC HUNTINGTON ROBERT ROBBINS, DANTE FOOT ELI HYDE JOSEPH WOODBRIDGE STEPHEN BILLINGS ANDREW LEE WILLIAM NOYES JOSHUA RAYMOND Junr JERH HALSEY WHEELER COIT CHARLES PHELPS NATHANIEL MINOR JONATHAN STURGES THADDEUS BURR ELISHA WHITTELSEY JOSEPH MOSS WHITE AMOS MEAD JABEZ FITCH NEHEMIAH BEARDSLEY JAMES POTTER JOHN CHANDLER JOHN BEACH HEZH ROGERS LEML SANFORD WILLIAM HERON PHILIP BURR BRADLEY JOSHUA PORTER BENJN HINMAN EPAPHRAS SHELDON ELEAZER CURTISS JOHN WHITTLESEY DANL NATHL BRINSMADE THOMAS FENN DAVID SMITH ROBERT McCANE DANIEL SHERMAN SAMUEL ORTON ASHER MILLER SAML H. PARSONS EBENR WHITE HEZH GOODRICH DYAR THROOK JABEZ CHAPMAN CORNELIUS HIGGINS HEZEKIAH BRAINERD THEOPHILUS MORGAN HEZH LANE WILLIAM HART SAML SHIPMAN JEREMIAH WEST SAMUEL CHAPMAN ICHABOD WARNER SAMUEL CARVER JEREMIAH RIPLEY EPHRAIM ROOT JOHN PHELPS ISAAC FOOT ABIJAH SESSIONS CALEB HOLT SETH CROCKER |
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-
(1) Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894), pp. 87-89. Back
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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 |