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Articles of Confederation Ratified (48)

Thomas Rodney. Diary entry, March 1, 1781. Rodney Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (48)
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Articles of Confederation Ratified 

After Maryland’s ratification established the Articles of Confederation as the first United States constitution, Thomas Rodney (1744—1811), a delegate to the Continental Congress from Delaware, recorded in his diary on March 1, 1781, that “the Completion of this grand Union & Confederation was announced by Firing thirteen Cannon on the Hill” in Philadelphia. John Hanson (1715—1783), a delegate from Maryland, was elected the first president of the confederation government.