Massachusetts 1788 Constitutional Convention

Office:
Constitutional Convention (State)
Title:
Convention Delegate
Jurisdiction:
State
Label:
Massachusetts 1788 Constitutional Convention
Date:
1788
State:
Massachusetts
Type:
Legislative
Iteration:
First Ballot
Office/Role:
Constitutional Convention/Convention Delegate
Candidates:
yes, no
Candidates: yes[1]no
Affiliation:
Final Result: [2][3]187168
Benjamin Adams-1
Daniel Adams-1
Mark Adams-1
Samuel Adams1-
Noah Alden-1
Josiah Allis-1
William Almy1-
Fisher Ames1-
Moses Ames-1
Consider Arms-1
John Ashley1-
Isaac Backus1-
Samuel Baker1-
Thomas M. Baker-1
Jonathan Ballard-1
Nathaniel Barrell1-
Bailey Bartlett1-
Moses Bascom-1
John Baxter1-
William Baylies1-
Zacheus Beal-1
Joshua Bean-1
Comstock Betts-1
Abraham Bigelow1-
David Bigelow-1
Elijah Bisbee, Jr.-1
Phanuel Bishop-1
John Black-1
Timothy Blair-1
Benjamin Blancy1-
William Bodman-1
Benjamin Bonny1-
Shearjashub Bourn1-
James Bowdoin1-
James Bowdoin, Jr.1-
Jacob Bradbury1-
Jeffe Bradley-1
A. Brigham-1
Hezekiah Broad-1
E. Brooks1-
J. Brooks1-
Benjamin Brown1-
David Brown-1
Lawson Buckminster1-
John Burnham1-
Francis Cabot1-
G. Cabot1-
Ebenezer Carlton-1
John Carnes1-
Elisha Carpenter1-
James Carr-1
S. Chamberlain-1
John Chamberlin-1
J. Choate1-
Adam Clark-1
Israel Clark1-
Kimbal Clarke1-
Jonathan Cogswell1-
Lemuel Collins-1
Elihu Colton1-
Nathan Comstock-1
Clark Cooley-1
Daniel Cooley-1
Richard Cranch1-
Zacheus Crocker-1
Jonah Crosby-1
Caleb Curtis-1
Joseph Cushing1-
Nathan Cushing1-
William Cushing1-
Richard Foxwell Cutts-1
Thomas Cutts1-
Tristram Dalton1-
Francis Dana1-
Stephen Dana1-
Caleb Davis1-
John Davis1-
Joseph Davis-1
Moses Davis1-
Thomas Davis1-
Thomas Dawes1-
Jonathan Day-1
Gilbet Dench-1
Samuel Denny-1
Thomas J. Douglas1-
Frederick Drown-1
Elijah Dunbar1-
Cornelius Dunham1-
John Dunlap1-
Thomas Dursee1-
Elijah Dwight1-
Justus Dwight-1
Joshua Dyer1-
Nahum Eager1-
Benjamin Eastman-1
Samuel Eddy-1
Benjamin Ely-1
Peter Emerson-1
Jeremiah Emery-1
David Fales1-
Michael Farley1-
Israel Fearing1-
Samuel Field-1
Aaron Fisher1-
J. Fisher1-
Asa Fisk-1
Daniel Fisk-1
Ephraim Fitch-1
Joel Fletcher-1
William Flint-1
Daniel Forbes-1
Silas Fowler-1
John Fox1-
Solomon Freeman1-
John Frye-1
A. Fuller1-
John Fuller-1
Timothy Fuller-1
David Gilmore1-
Phineas Gleazen-1
John Glover1-
Jonathan Glover1-
Josiah Goddard1-
John Goldbury-1
Noah Goodman1-
Christopher Gore1-
Nathaniel Gorham1-
Samuel Grant1-
William Gray, Jr.1-
Jonathan Green-1
Benjamin Greenleaf1-
Jonathan Grout-1
Moses Hale-1
John Hamilton-1
Nathaniel Hammond-1
John Hancock1-
J. Harnden-1
Isaac Harrington-1
David Harwood-1
J. Hastings1-
James Hathua-1
Melatiah Hathway-1
Elijah Hayes-1
William Heath1-
Moses Hemmenway1-
Ezekiel Herrick-1
Jacob Herrick1-
Stephen Holden-1
Abraham Holmes-1
Hezekiah Hooper1-
Joseph Hosmer1-
Daniel Howard1-
Daniel Howard, Jr.1-
Jonathan Howes1-
Jonathan Hubbard-1
John Hurlbert-1
Israel Hutchinson-1
Daniel Ilsley-1
John Ingersoll1-
Enoch Jackman1-
Joseph Jackson1-
Ebenezer Janes1-
Charles Jarvis1-
N. Jenks-1
John Jennings-1
John C. Jones1-
Thomas Jones1-
William Jones-1
Benjamin Joslyn-1
Jonathan Keep-1
Rufus King1-
Martin Kinsley-1
Thomas Kittridge-1
Joshua Lawton-1
Edmund Lazell1-
Jeremiah Learned-1
Nathaniel Leonard-1
Benjamin Lincoln1-
S. Longfellow, Jr.-1
John Low1-
John Low1-
Nathaniel Low-1
Benjamin Lurvey1-
Thomas Lusk-1
William MacCobb1-
Ezra MacIntier-1
William MacIntosh1-
Joseph MacLellan1-
Thomas Mann1-
Richard Manning1-
Isaac Mansfield1-
E. March1-
Nathaniel Marsh1-
Christopher Mason-1
Timothy Mason-1
T. Maxwell1-
Elisha May1-
William Mayhew1-
Malachi Maynard-1
Stephen Maynard-1
Aaron Merrick-1
Phineas Merrick-1
Samuel Merrill1-
Thomas Mighill-1
Simeon Miller1-
John Minot-1
Elisha Mitchel1-
David Mitchell1-
Abner Morgan1-
Benjamin Morse-1
Jonas Morse-1
David Murry-1
Samuel Nasson-1
James Neal-1
Seth Newton1-
Samuel Niles1-
Zenos Noble-1
Daniel Noyes1-
Samuel Nye1-
Thomas Nye-1
Azor Orne1-
Peter Osgood, Jr.-1
Joseph Palmer1-
Timothy Parker-1
Asa Parlin-1
Theophilus Parsons1-
George Partridge1-
Matthew Patrick1-
Willis Patten1-
George Payson1-
Phillips Payson1-
W. Pearlon1-
Samuel Peckham-1
Isaac Pepper-1
Samuel Perley1-
William Phillips1-
John Picket, Jr.-1
Ebenezer Pierce-1
Jeremiah Pierce-1
J. Pitts1-
L. Pomeroy1-
Elisha Porter1-
Asa Powers-1
Aaron Pratt-1
John Pratt-1
Esaias Preble-1
Edward Pulling1-
Daniel Putnam-1
William Pyachon1-
Benjamin Randall-1
Valentine Rathbun-1
Jeff Reed1-
Samuel Reed-1
Thomas Rice1-
M. Richardson, Jr.-1
Silvester Richmond1-
Nathaniel Robbins1-
Daniel Rogers1-
Thomas Russel1-
Benjamin Sawin-1
O. Sawtell-1
Enoch Sawyer1-
Newman Scarlet-1
T. Sedgwick1-
William Sever, Jr.1-
Moses Severance-1
Drummer Sewall1-
William Shaw1-
Benjamin Shelden1-
David Shepard1-
Joseph Sheple-1
Asaph Sherman-1
Francis Shurtliff-1
Daniel Shute1-
Amos Singletary-1
T. J. Skinner1-
Holder Slocum-1
Abraham Smith-1
John K. Smith1-
Jonathan Smith1-
Josiah Smith1-
Thomas Smith-1
Isaac Snow1-
Isaac Soul-1
Jedediah Southworth-1
Walter Spooner1-
John Sprague1-
Marshall Spring-1
David Stearns-1
Philip Stebbins-1
Samuel Stillman1-
Joseph Stone-1
Caleb Strong1-
Increase Sumner1-
David Sylvester1-
William Symmes, Jr.1-
D. Taylor1-
John Taylor-1
Jonas Temple-1
David Thatcher1-
Thomas Thatcher1-
Benjamin Thomas-1
Joshua Thomas1-
Edward Thompson-1
Isaac Thompson1-
Samuel Thompson-1
William Thompson-1
William Thompson1-
Israel Thorndike1-
Daniel Thurston1-
Pelatiah Tingley-1
Ebenezer Tisdell-1
Jonathan Titcomb1-
Cotton Tufts1-
Charles Turner1-
John Turner1-
J. B. Varnum1-
David Vaughan-1
Ebenezer Wales1-
Ebenezer Warren1-
Freeman Waterman1-
Israel Wathburn1-
John Webber-1
William Wedgery-1
Aggrippa Wells-1
Nathaniel Wells1-
Thomas M. Wentworth-1
Samuel West1-
Asahel Wheeler1-
Abraham White[4]-1
Nathaniel Whitecomb-1
Charles Whitman1-
Josiah Whitney-1
Anthony Wibird1-
David Wilder1-
Ephraim Wilder1-
Jacob Willard-1
Samuel Willard-1
Ephraim Williams-1
James Williams1-
Leonard Williams1-
John Williston-1
Moses Willmarth1-
Robert Wilson-1
Timothy Winn-1
William Winsor-1
John Winthrop1-
Levi Witman1-
Daniel Witney1-
Aaron Wood-1
Joseph Wood-1
Joseph Wood1-
Josiah Wood-1
John Woods-1
Nathaniel Wyman1-

Notes:

[1]Approved.
[2]"On Wednesday afternoon, at five o'clock, the Honorable Convention of this Commonwealth assented to, and ratified, the Constitution proposed by the late Federal Convention." American Herald (Boston, MA). February 11, 1788.
[3]The following is an account of the yeas and nays of the different counties, in the State Convention of Massachusetts: Barnstable had 7 yeas and 2 nays, Berkshire had 7 yeas and 15 nays, Bristol had 10 yeas and 12 nays, Cumberland had 10 yeas and 3 nays, Dukes had 2 yeas and 0 nays, Essex had 38 yeas and 6 nays, Hampshire had 19 yeas and 33 nays, Lincoln had 9 yeas and 7 nays, Middlesex had 18 yeas and 10 nays, Plymouth had 21 yeas and 6 nays, Suffolk had 33 yeas and 5 nays, Worcester had 7 yeas and 58 nays, and York had 6 yeas and 11 nays. The Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA). February 27, 1788.
[4]"Hon. Mr. White rose, and said, that notwithstanding he had opposed the adoption of the constitution, upon the idea that it would endanger the liberties of his country, yet, as a majority had seen fit to adopt it, he should use his utmost exertions to induce his constituents to live in peace under, and cheerfully submit to it." American Herald (Boston, MA). February 11, 1788.

References:

American Herald (Boston, MA). February 11, 1788.
The Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA). February 27, 1788.

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