Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Connecticut” in chapter 18 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition.:
... Jersey, except Ogden; all those of Rhode Island; all of Pennsylvania, excepting Dickinson, who was absent but adhered; all of Delaware; and all of Maryland, with the virtual assent of New Hampshire, Connecticut , New-York, South Carolina, and Georgia, set their hands to the papers, by which the colonies became, as they expressed it, a bundle of sticks, which could neither be bent nor broken.
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