#otd in 1788, New York became the 11th state to ratify the US Constitution. #WethePeople Delegate John Haring, of Tappan, was present for this momentous and important event. Image: Delegates at the New York Convention to Ratify the Federal Constitution, a WPA mural painted by Gerald Foster of Westfield, NJ and installed in the U.S. Post Office at Poughkeepsie in 1938. The painting depicts the ratifying scene at the Dutchess County Courthouse on July 26, 1788. This image was selected for reproduction as the official poster of the NY State Bicentennial Commission. Image also appeared in our quarterly history journal "South of the Mountains", Vol. 31, No. 3, 1987 From left to right: Philip Van Cortlandt, Cornelius Schoonmaker, Peter Vrooman, John Haring (Orange County delegate from Tappan), Israel Thompson, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, Melancton Smith, Governor George Clinton, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Bancker, John Jay, James Clinton, Isaac Roosevelt, John Sloss Hobart, Jacobus Swartwout, Peter Vandervoort, James Duane, Philip Livingston, John Lansing, Lewis Morris, Richard Morris, Dirck Wyncoop, Gozen Ryerss. For a highly accessible, easy to use online version full text transcript of the US Constitution including the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Amendments with both sequential and subject indexes visit this link: http://constitutionus.com/ www.RocklandHistory.org