CONSTITUTION— The Pennsylvania Packet, and General Advertiser, Philadelphia: John Dunlap & David C. Claypoole, 18 September 1787.

CONSTITUTION— The Pennsylvania Packet, and General Advertiser, Philadelphia: John Dunlap & David C. Claypoole, 18 September 1787.

First report of the end of the Constitutional Convention. Appearing at the top of page three, in large type, the editors write, "We have the heart-felt pleasure to inform our fellow citizens that the Federal Convention adjourned yesterday, having completed the object of their deliberations—And we hear that Major W. Jackson, the secretary of that honorable body, leaves this city for New York, this morning, in order to the lay the great result of their proceedings before the United States in Congress." After the delegates to the convention had signed the final document on 17 September, they charged Major William Jackson of South Carolina with the responsibility of reporting the completion of the document to the Confederation Congress then sitting at New York. He reached the city on the 20th and read the document before Congress. The process of ratification would take over nine months to complete the required number of states had approved the document to bring it into effect.

Four pages, 466 x 292mm (marginal tears and chips affecting a few words of text, weak horizontal center fold partly mended, toned spot at bottom of second leaf).