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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Anyone: Did we have 57 colonies or just 57 states?


6 posted on 11/08/2012 12:15:41 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian; Nachum
Anyone: Did we have 57 colonies or just 57 states?

Actually originally there were about 55 or 56 colonies. Later on quite a few of them were combined to form the 13 that we traditionally accept and the number we had when we declared Independence.

13 posted on 11/08/2012 12:34:11 PM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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