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! Washington D.C. Business Directory Dred Scott and his wife Harriet Scott each sued for freedom in St Louis after the death of their master based on their having been held in a free territory (the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase from which slavery was excluded under the terms of the Missouri Compromise) (Later the two cases were combined under Dred Scott's name.) Scott filed suit for freedom in 1846 and went through two state trials the first denying and the second granting freedom to the couple (and by extension their two daughters who had also been held illegally in free territories) for 28 years Missouri state precedent had generally respected laws of neighboring free states and territories ruling for freedom in such transit cases where slaves had been held illegally in free territory But in the Dred Scott case the State Supreme Court ruled against the slaves saying that "times were not what they once were".[citation needed]. On January 5 1776 New Hampshire ratified the first state constitution in May 1776 Congress voted to suppress all forms of crown authority to be replaced by locally created authority Virginia South Carolina and New Jersey created their constitutions before July 4 Rhode Island and Connecticut simply took their existing royal charters and deleted all references to the crown the new states were all committed to republicanism with no inherited offices They decided what form of government to create and also how to select those who would craft the constitutions and how the resulting document would be ratified On 26 May 1776 John Adams wrote James Sullivan from Philadelphia:.

. . . . . Main article: Slave codes, Tributaries of the North Branch of the Potomac River, 5.4 Children's books Organisation of Islamic Cooperation: Jeddah; List[show] Lincoln is largely responsible for the Thanksgiving holiday.:471 Thanksgiving had become a regional holiday in New England in the 17th century it had been sporadically proclaimed by the federal government on irregular dates the prior proclamation had been during James Madison's presidency 50 years earlier in 1863 Lincoln declared the final Thursday in November of that year to be a day of Thanksgiving.:471.