the matters and things therein contained:  And we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the united states in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them.  And that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual.  In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in Congress.  Done at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania the ninth Day of July in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Seventy-eight, and in the third year of the independence of America.

On the part & behalf of the State of New Hampshire

  Josiah Bartlett, John Wentworth Jun’r.  August 8th 1778

On the part and behalf of The State of Massachusetts Bay

  John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Elbridge Gerry, Francis Dana,
  James Lovell, Samuel Holten

On the part and behalf of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence
Plantations

  William ELLARY, Henry Marchant, John Collins

On the part and behalf of the State of Connecticut

  Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, Oliver Wolcott, Titus Hosmer,
  Andrew Adams

On the Part and Behalf of the State of New York

  JA’S.  Duane, FRA’S.  Lewis, W’M Duer., GOUV Morris

On the Part and in Behalf of the State of New Jersey.  Nov’r. 26, 1778—­

  JNO.  Witherspoon, NATHL.  Scudder

On the part and behalf of the State of Pennsylvania

  ROB’T.  Morris, Daniel ROBERDEAU, JON’A.  Bayard Smith., William
  Clingan, Joseph Reed 22d July 1778

On the part & behalf of the State of Delaware

  Tho McKEAN Feby 12 1779, John Dickinson May 5th 1779, Nicholas Van Dyke

On the part and behalf of the State of Maryland

  John Hanson March 1 1781, Daniel Carroll d’o

On the Part and Behalf of the State of Virginia

  Richard Henry Lee, John Banister, Thomas Adams, JN’O.  Harvie,
  Francis Lightfoot Lee

On the part and Behalf of the State of N’o Carolina

  John Penn July 21st 1778, CORN’S Harnett, JN’O.  Williams

On the part & behalf of the State of South-Carolina

  Henry Laurens., William Henry Drayton, JN’O.  Mathews, RICH’D.  Hutson.,
  THO’S.  Heyward Jun’r