Ratifications of the Constitution of the United States/Connecticut

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In the Name of the People of the State of Connecticut

We, the delegates of the people of said 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, on the 17th day of September, A. D. 1787, for the United States of America.

Done in Convention, this 9th day of January, A. D. 1788.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands.

MATTHEW GRISWOLD, President
     
Jeremiah Wadsworth, Jabez Fitch, John Curtiss,
Jesse Root, Nehemiah Beardsley, Asa Barns,
Isaac Lee, James Potter, Stephen Mix Mitchell,
Selah Hart, John Chandler, John Chester,
Zebulon Peck, Jun., Issac Burnham, Oliver Ellsworth,
Elisha Pitkin, John Wilder, Roger Newberry,
Erastur Wolcott, Mark Prindle, Roger Sherman,
John Watson, Jedediah Hubbel, Pierpont Edwards,
John Treadwell, Aaron Austin, Samuel Beach,
William Judd, Samuel Canfield, Daniel Holbrook,
Nathaniel Minor, Daniel Everitt, John Holbrook,
Jonathan Sturges, Hezekiah Fitch, Gideon Buckingham,
Thaddeus Burr, Joshua Porter, Lewis Mallet, Jun.
Elisha Whittlesey, Benjamin Hinma, Joseph Hopkins,
Joseph Moss White, Joseph Mosely, John Welton,
Amos Mead, Wait Goodrich, Richard Law,
Amasa Learned, Simeon Smith, Robert M'Cune,
Samuel Huntington, Hendrick Dow, Daniel Sherman,
Jedediah Huntington, Seth Paine, Samuel Orton,
Isaac Huntington, Asa Witter, Asher Miller,
Robert Robbins, Moses Cleveland, Samuel H. Parsons,
Daniel Foot, Samson Howe, Ebenezer White,
Eli Hyde, William Danielson, Hezekiah Goodrich,
Joseph Woodbridge, William Williams, Dyer Throop,
Stephen Billings, James Bradford, Jabez Chapman,
Andrew Lee, Joshua Dunlap, Cornelius Higgins,
William Noyes, Daniel Learned, Hezekiah Brainard,
Joshua Raymond, Jun., Moses Campbell, Theophilus Morgan,
Jeremiah Halsey, Benjamin Dow, Hezekiah Lane,
Wheeler Coit, Oliver Wolcott, William Hart,
Charles Phelps, Jedediah Strong, Samuel Shipman,
John Beach, Moses Hawley, Jeremiah West,
Hezekiah Rogers, Charles Burrall, Samuel Chapman,
Lemuel Sandford, Nathan Hale, Ichabod Warner,
William Heron, Daniel Miles, Samuel Carver,
Philip Burr Bradley, Asaph Hall, Jeremiah Ripley,
Nathan Danchy, Epaphras Sheldon, Ephraim Root,
James Davenport, Eleazer Curtiss, John Phelps,
John Davenport, Jun., John Whittlesey, Isaac Foot,
Wm. Samuel Johnson, Dan. Nath. Brinsmade, Abijah Sessions,
Elisha Mills, Thomas Fenn, Caleb Holt,
Eliphalet Dyer, David Smith, Seth Crocker.
Jedediah Elderkin,    

State of Connecticut, ss. Hartford, January Ninth, Anno Domini, 1788. 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. Jedediah Strong, Secretary.