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From 1775 until 1776 the United States had a provincial congress. After the Declaration of Independence was signed, the United States developed a Constitutional Congress. Abraham Ten Broeck and Leonard Gansevoort were representatives for the Congress.
It was adopted on July 2, 1776 after the Continental Congress made many changes in Jefferson's original draft. Once it was in acceptable form, it was verbally read into the journal of the Congress and a voice vote taken. That voice vote was the true adoption of the Declaration. The marked up draft then went to be written formally and enlarged. That was done and made ready by July 4, 1776. The new written document was compared to what had been written in the journal and adopted as the true version of what had been verbally approved on July 2. Only John Hancock and Charles thomson, Secretary of Congress, signed it on July 4, 1776. A new version was printed with most delegates signing on August 2, 1776.
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There was over 2,000 British soldiers killed in the Battle of New York in July 1776.
He was a repersentative of the Lower House of New York State Legislature-1777-1778, State Constitutional Convention of New York-1776, etc.
William Floyd was a member of the 1776 Continential Congress representing the state of New York. This honored position enabled him to become one of 56 men to sign the Declaration of Independence. There were three other members of congress from New York that year who also signed the document. They were; Francis Lewis, Philip Livingston and Lewis Morris.
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