1754-1807

Abraham Baldwin, a distinguished statesman, was graduated at Yale College in 1772, and distinguished for great scholarship. In 1785 he was appointed president of the University of Georgia. He was a member of the grand convention, which held its session from May 25, to September 17, 1787, and framed the constitution of the United States. To that instrument he affixed his name as one of the deputies from Georgia. After the organization of government, be was elected a senator of the United States, and while in the discharge of his official duties, he died at Washington, March 2, 1807.

[During the convention which drafted the new constitution, Georgia delegate William Pierce, and others for various reasons, left the convention before September and did not sign the new constitution. However, while in attendance Pierce made private notes on each representative.]

Pierce's notes.