Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Rhode Island” in chapter 29, page 449 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8:
...ncur in a declaration of independence.
On the first of May, Massachusetts expunged the regal style from all public proceedings, and substituted the name of her government and people; on the fourth, Rhode Island more explicitly renounced allegiance, and made its delegates the representatives
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