1To Benjamin Franklin from George Greive: Oath, [29 April 1781] (Franklin Papers)
DS : American Philosophical Society I do acknowledge the thirteen United States of America, namely, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pensylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free Independent & Sovereign States; and declare that the People thereof owe no Allegiance or Obedience to George the...