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How many of you know, without looking it up, when the colonies first started referring to themselves as “states” instead of “colonies”, what events preceded it, and what were the first formal signs of it happening?  Month and year please, or even just year. 
(I’ll put the answer in a comment, no fair peeking!) 
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