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The American History Collection > The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution > Ratification by the States > Volume IV: Massachusetts, No. 1 > Documents > III: The Debate over the Constitution in Massachusetts, 28 October 1787–12 February 1788
IntroductionRufus King to Henry Knox, Boston, 28 OctoberFrom Theodore Sedgwick, Boston, 28 OctoberJohn De Witt II, American Herald, 29 OctoberLycurgus, American Herald, 29 OctoberA Dialogue Between Mr. Schism and Mr. Cutbrush, Boston Gazette, 29 OctoberBoston Gazette, 29 OctoberWilliam Frost to George Thatcher, York, 30 October§ Editors’ Note: Nathaniel Gorham to Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 30 OctoberNathaniel Gorham to Henry Knox, Boston, 30 OctoberVox Populi, Massachusetts Gazette, 30 OctoberMassachusetts Gazette, 30 OctoberSalem Mercury, 30 OctoberHenry Gibbs to Simeon Baldwin, Salem, 31 OctoberCotton Tufts to Abigail Adams, Boston, 31 OctoberEssex Journal, 31 OctoberHampshire Gazette, 31 OctoberA Dialogue Between Mr. Z and Mr. &, Massachusetts Centinel, 31 OctoberResponses to An Old Whig I, Massachusetts Centinel, 31 OctoberMassachusetts Centinel, 31 OctoberMassachusetts Centinel, 31 OctoberHenry Van Schaack to David Van Schaack, Pittsfield, c. 31 OctoberRufus King and Nathaniel Gorham, Response to Elbridge Gerry's Objections, post-31 OctoberIsaiah, Independent Chronicle, 1 NovemberHenry Warren to Henry Van Schaack, Plymouth, 2 NovemberExaminer, Massachusetts Gazette, 2 NovemberMassachusetts Centinel, 3 NovemberHenry Jackson to Henry Knox, Boston, 5 NovemberJohn De Witt III, American Herald, 5 NovemberA Federalist, Boston Gazette, 5 NovemberVox Populi, Massachusetts Gazette, 6 NovemberEssex Journal, 7 NovemberA Dialogue Between Mr. Z and Mr. &, Massachusetts Centinel, 7 NovemberMassachusetts Centinel, 7 November“A. B.”, Massachusetts Centinel, 7 NovemberObservator, Independent Chronicle, 8 NovemberIndependent Chronicle, 8 NovemberIndependent Chronicle, 8 NovemberWorcester Magazine, 8 NovemberCumberland Gazette, 9 NovemberExaminer, Massachusetts Gazette, 9 NovemberJohn Adams to Thomas Jefferson, London, 10 NovemberThomas a Kempis, Massachusetts Centinel, 10 NovemberMassachusetts Centinel, 10 NovemberMassachusetts Centinel, 10 NovemberMassachusetts Centinel, 10 NovemberHenry Jackson to Henry Knox, Boston, 11 NovemberPortius, American Herald, 12 NovemberUnion, Boston Gazette, 12 NovemberBoston Gazette, 12 NovemberVox Populi, Massachusetts Gazette, 13 NovemberHanno, Massachusetts Gazette, 13 NovemberMassachusetts Gazette, 13 November“A. B.” to Elbridge Gerry, Massachusetts Centinel, 14 NovemberA Friend for Liberty, Massachusetts Centinel, 14 NovemberMassachusetts Centinel, 14 NovemberTruth: Disadvantages of Federalism, Upon the New Plan, Boston, 14–24 NovemberThomas Smith to John Dolbeare, 15 NovemberWilliam Symmes, Jr., to Peter Osgood, Jr. Andover, 15 NovemberCumberland Gazette, 15 NovemberConsideration, Independent Chronicle, 15 NovemberWorcester Speculator VII, Worcester Magazine, 15 NovemberElbridge Gerry to John Wendell, Cambridge, 16 NovemberVox Populi, Massachusetts Gazette, 16 NovemberCato's Soliloquy Parodied, Massachusetts Gazette, 16 NovemberCassius I, Massachusetts Gazette, 16 NovemberOne of the People, Massachusetts Centinel, 17 NovemberFederalist, Massachusetts Centinel, 17 NovemberAn American: The Crisis, Massachusetts Centinel, 17 NovemberHenry Jackson to Henry Knox, Boston, 18 NovemberJohn De Witt IV, American Herald, 19 NovemberGeorge Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the Constitutional Convention, Boston, 19–21 NovemberBoston Gazette, 19 NovemberPublic Creditors and the Constitution, Boston, 19 November“A. B.”: Lessons from the Book of Samuel, Massachusetts Gazette, 20 NovemberExaminer, Massachusetts Gazette, 20 NovemberCandor, Massachusetts Gazette, 20 NovemberMassachusetts Gazette, 20 NovemberGeorge Mason and the Constitution, 20 November–3 DecemberGeorge Mason's Objections to the Constitution, Massachusetts Centinel, 21 November–19 DecemberJoseph Savage to Samuel P. Savage, Springfield, 21 NovemberMassachusetts Centinel, 21 NovemberEssex Journal, 21 NovemberMonitor, Hampshire Gazette, 21 NovemberThomas B. Wait to George Thatcher, Portland, 22 NovemberCumberland Gazette, 22 NovemberCumberland Gazette, 22 NovemberAtticus III, Independent Chronicle, 22 NovemberThe Worcester Speculator VIII, Worcester Magazine, 22 November§ Editors’ Note: The Massachusetts Reprinting of the Brutus Essays, 22 November 1787–8 May 1788Agrippa I, Massachusetts Gazette, 23 NovemberCassius II, Massachusetts Gazette, 23 NovemberVox Populi, Massachusetts Gazette, 23 NovemberMassachusetts Gazette, 23 NovemberMassachusetts Centinel, 24 NovemberMassachusetts Centinel, 24 NovemberPropriety, Massachusetts Centinel, 24 NovemberChristopher Gore to George Thatcher, Boston, 25 NovemberHenry Jackson to Henry Knox, Boston, 25 NovemberWilliam Cranch to John Quincy Adams, Braintree, 26 NovemberA Federalist, Boston Gazette, 26 NovemberAgrippa II, Massachusetts Gazette, 27 NovemberCassius III, Massachusetts Gazette, 27 NovemberMassachusetts Gazette, 27 NovemberCotton Tufts to John Adams, Weymouth, 28 NovemberCato, Essex Journal, 28 NovemberOne of the Middling-Interest, Massachusetts Centinel, 28 NovemberValerius, Massachusetts Centinel, 28 NovemberJonathan Sayward Diary, York, 29 NovemberVirginia Journal, 29 NovemberCumberland Gazette, 30 NovemberAn American, Independent Chronicle, 30 NovemberCassius IV, Massachusetts Gazette, 30 NovemberCassius V, Massachusetts Gazette, 30 NovemberAgrippa III, Massachusetts Gazette, 30 NovemberJohn Quincy Adams Diary, Newburyport, 1 DecemberMentor, Massachusetts Centinel, 1 DecemberMassachusetts Centinel, 1 DecemberCincinnatus, Massachusetts Centinel, 1 DecemberBenjamin Lincoln to François de Fleury, Boston, 2 DecemberSamuel Adams to Richard Henry Lee, Boston, 3 DecemberJohn De Witt V, American Herald, 3 DecemberThe Monitor, American Herald, 3 DecemberAmerican Herald, 3 DecemberA Federalist, Boston Gazette, 3 DecemberBoston Gazette, 3 DecemberOne of the Common People, Boston Gazette, 3 DecemberThe Massachusetts Printing of Benjamin Franklin's Last Speech in the Constitutional Convention, 3–18 DecemberBoston Gazette, 3 DecemberNathaniel Gorham to Henry Knox, Charlestown, 4 DecemberAgrippa IV, Massachusetts Gazette, 4 DecemberMassachusetts Gazette, 4 DecemberTheodore Sedgwick to Henry Van Schaack, Stockbridge, 5 DecemberOne of the Middle-Interest, Massachusetts Centinel, 5 DecemberJohn Adams to Thomas Jefferson, London, 6 DecemberOliver Phelps to Elbridge Gerry, Granville, 6 DecemberCumberland Gazette, 6 DecemberCandidus I, Independent Chronicle, 6 DecemberAn American, Independent Chronicle, 6 DecemberMassachusetts Gazette, 7 DecemberJohn Quincy Adams to William Cranch, Newburyport, 8 DecemberJeremy Belknap to Ebenezer Hazard, Boston, 8 DecemberPhilo Publius, Massachusetts Centinel, 8 December“O”, Massachusetts Centinel, 8 DecemberThomas a Kempis, Massachusetts Centinel, 8 DecemberAmerican Herald, 10 DecemberAgrippa V, Massachusetts Gazette, 11 DecemberMassachusetts Gazette, 11 DecemberCornelius, Hampshire Chronicle, 11, 18 DecemberThomas a Kempis, Massachusetts Centinel, 12 DecemberMassachusetts Centinel, 12 December§ Editors’ Note: The Massachusetts Reprinting of James Wilson's 24 November Speech to the Pennsylvania Convention, 12–27 DecemberTheodore Sedgwick to Henry Van Schaack, Stockbridge, 13 DecemberJames Madison to Archibald Stuart, New York, 14 DecemberCassius VI, Massachusetts Gazette, 14 DecemberAgrippa VI, Massachusetts Gazette, 14 DecemberThomas a Kempis, Massachusetts Centinel, 15 DecemberMassachusetts Centinel, 15 DecemberNathaniel Gorham to Henry Knox, Charlestown, 16 DecemberAmerican Herald, 17 December“B”, Boston Gazette, 17 December