Recovering Our Forgotten Preamble

Four volumes of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification by the States cover Massachusetts:

• Volume 4: Massachusetts, No. 1 (John P. Kaminski et al., eds., 1997)
• Volume 5: Massachusetts, No. 2 (John P. Kaminski et al., eds., 1998)
• Volume 6: Massachusetts, No. 3 (John P. Kaminski et al., eds., 2000)
• Volume 7: Massachusetts, No. 4 (John P. Kaminski et al., eds., 2001)

Volume 5: Massachusetts, No. 2

Samuel, Independent Chronicle, 10 January, p. 683

The Republican Federalist V, Massachusetts Centinel, 19 January, p. 748 

Volume 6: Massachusetts, No. 3

Convention Debates, 21 January, P.M., p. 1285

Convention Debates, 24 January, P.M., p. 1339 

Convention Debates, 1 February, A.M., p. 1397

General Brooks, January 24, P.M., p. 1339

Volume 7: Massachusetts, No. 4

Winthrop Sargent to Henry Knox, Boston, 6 February, p. 1583

Monday, 14 January, A.M. and P.M., p. 1801