Maryland Ratifies the US Constitution and is the 7th State Admitted to the Union
In Convention of the Delegates of the People of the State of Maryland 28 April 1788.
We the Delegates of the people of the State of Maryland having fully considered the Constitution of the United States of America reported to Congress by the Convention of Deputies from the United States of America held in Philadelphia on the seventeenth Day of September in the Year Seventeen hundred and eighty seven of which the annexed is a Copy and submitted to us by a Resolution of the General Assembly of Maryland in November Session Seventeen hundred and eighty seven do for ourselves and in the Name and on the behalf of the People of this State assent to and ratify the said Constitution.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names-
RICHD BARNES
CHARGES CHILTON
N LEWIS SEWALL
WM TILGHMAN.
DONALDSON YEATES
ISAAC PERKINS
WILLIAM GRANGER
JOSEPH WILKINSON
CHARLES GRAHAME
JNo CHESLEY Junr
W. SMITH
G. R. BROWN
J PARNHAM
ZEPH. TURNER
MICHAEL JENEFER STONE
R. GOLDSBOROUGH junr
EDWD LLOYD
JOHN STEVENS
GEORGE GALE
HENRY WAGGAMAN
JOHN STEWART
JOHN GALE
Ns HAMMOND
ABRAHAM FAW
WM PACA
J RICHARDSON
WILLIAM RICHARDSON
MATT: DRIVER
PETER EDMONDSON
JAMES McHENRY
JOHN COULTER
GEO: PLATER President-
DANIEL SULLIVAN
JAMES SHAW
JOS: GILPIN
H HOLLINGSWORTH
JAMES GORDON HERON
SAML EVANS
FIELDER BOWIE
OSB SPRIGG
BENJAMIN HALL
GEORGE DIGGES,
NICHOLAS CARROLL.
A C. HANSON
JA. TILGHMAN
JNo SENEY
JAMES HOLLYDAY
WILLIAM HEMSLEY
PETER CHAILLE
JAMES MARTIN
WILLIAM MORRIS
JOHN DONE
THS JOHNSON
THO. S. LEE
RICHARD POTTS
THOMAS SPRIGG
JOHN STULL
MOSES RAWLINGS
HENRY SHRYOCK
THOS CRAMPHIN
RICHD THOMAS
WILL DEAKINS Junr
BEN: EDWARDS
Attest-WM HARWOOD Clk.
Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. On February 2, 1781, Maryland became the 13th state to approve the ratification of the Articles of Confederation which brought into being the United States as a united, sovereign and national state. It also became the seventh state admitted to the U.S. after ratifying the new Constitution. The following year, in December 1790, Maryland ceded land selected by President George Washington to the federal government for the creation of Washington, D.C.. The land was provided from Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, as well as from Fairfax County and Alexandria in Virginia (though the lands from Virginia were later returned through retrocession). The land provided to Washington, D.C. is actually "sitting" inside the state of Maryland (land that is now defunct in theory).