Article. VII. The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. 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 NEW YORK Alexander Hamilton NEW JERSEYWilliam Livingston David Brearley 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 Dan of St. Thomas Jennifer 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