Signatures
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Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September 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,
Attest: William Jackson, SECRETARY
George Washington, PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY FROM VIRGINIA
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman
MASSACHUSETTS:
Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King
CONNECTICUT:
William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman
NEW YORK:
Alexander Hamilton
NEW JERSEY:
William Livingston, David Brearly, William Paterson, Jonathan Dayton
PENNSYLVANIA:
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris
DELAWARE:
George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom
MARYLAND:
James McHenry, Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll
VIRGINIA:
John Blair, James Madison, Jr.
NORTH CAROLINA:
William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson
SOUTH CAROLINA:
John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler
GEORGIA:
William Few, Abraham Baldwin