Statistics for occurrence #1 of “South Carolina” in chapter 20 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8:
...ter into any kind of treaty with these colonies, till they declare themselves independent.
Yet Dickinson and others, among whom were found William Livingston of New Jersey, and the elder Laurens of South Carolina , wished to make no such declaration before an alliance with the king of France.
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