Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States

Ratification of the Constitution
by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

In the Name of the People of Pennsylvania

     Be it Known unto all Men that We the Delegates of the People of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general Convention assembled Have assented to, and ratified, and by these presents Do in the Name and by the authority of the same People, and for ourselves, assent to, and ratify the foregoing Constitution for the United States of America. Done in Convention at Philadelphia the twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG President
JN^O ALLISON
THOMAS CHEYN.
JONATHAN ROBERTS
JOHN HANNUM
JOHN RICHARDS
STEPHEN CHAMBERS
JAMES MORRIS
ROBERT COLEMAN
TIMOTHY PICKERING
SEBASTIAN GRAFF
BENJ^N ELLIOT—
JOHN HUBLEY
STEPHEN BALLIET
SAMUEL ASHMEAD
JOSEPH HORSFIELD
ENOCH EDWARDS
DAVID DASHLER
HENRY WYNKOOP
WILLIAM WILSON
JOHN BARCLAY
JOHN BOYD THO^S YARDLEY
THO SCOTT
ABRAHAM STOUT
JOHN NEVILL
THOMAS BULL
JASPER YEATES
ANTHONY WAYNE
HEN^Y SLAGLE
GEORGE LATIMER
THOMAS CAMPBELL
BENJ^N RUSH
THOMAS HARTLEY
HILARY BAKER
DAVID GRIER
JAMES WILSON
JOHN BLACK
THOMAS M^cKEAN
BENJAMIN PEDAN
W MACPHERSON
JOHN ARNDT
JOHN HUNN
WILLIAM GIBBONS
GEORGE GRAY
RICHARD DOWNING

Attest JAMES CAMPBELL Secretary

Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894), pp. 44, 45.