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Delaware Separates From Britain and Pennsylvania: June 15, 1776

The Delaware state quarter depicts Caesar Rodney on horseback, commemorating his all-night ride through a thunderstorm on July 1 and 2, 1776, to cast Delaware's tiebreaking vote for independence in the Continental Congress

On June 15, 1776, Delaware became the first colony to separate from two sovereignties at once: the British crown and the government of Pennsylvania. Two weeks later, Caesar Rodney rode through a thunderstorm to cast its tiebreaking vote for independence.

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New Hampshire Authorizes Independence: June 15, 1776

Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire, physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence. The second signer after John Hancock, and one of the delegates authorized by the New Hampshire General Court on June 15, 1776

On June 15, 1776, New Hampshire's General Court authorized its delegates to vote for independence. But the state had already written its own constitution six months earlier, the first American colony to do so.

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Connecticut Authorizes Independence: June 14, 1776

Roger Sherman of Connecticut, painted by Ralph Earl in 1775. The only person to sign all four of America's founding documents, and a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence

On June 14, 1776, Connecticut's General Assembly voted unanimously to authorize its delegates in the Continental Congress to propose independence. One of those delegates, Roger Sherman, was already drafting the Declaration of Independence.

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