LAKE HUKON NEW L. ONTARIO 879 LAKE MICHIGAN Detroit q LAKE ERIE YORK Albany CLAIMED BY Hudson R PENNSYLVANIA MASS. CONN. Pittsburgh' Philadelphia. AND Wabash VIRGINIA Ohio R. Potomar JRGINIA NEW JERSEY Illinois New Haven New York LONG I Scape T Cape Hatteras N T E 40 EXPLANATION States that clearly instructed their delegates to vote for Independence before Lee's resolution of June 7th [N. C. Va (including Mass, whose assembly on May 10th 1776 urged the towns of Mass. to instruct their representatives on the subject which a majority of them did favorably early in June.) States that clearly instructed their delegates to Vote for Independence, between June 7th and July 2nd 1776 [Coun. N. H. N.J. Md.] (including Pa. whose assembly, June 8th removed restrictions placed on their delegates as to Independence, though with the understanding oppose. Later June tion that ignored the .delegates to vote for ot before July 2nd 1776 heir delegates to favor gates approved of the as taken in Congress. her matters setting up states were going with se delegates did not and whose assembly did not give favorable instructions until July 9th 1776, |