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NY Supports Independence
The fourth New York Provincial Congress voted to support the Declaration on July 9th, becoming the 13th and final colony to do so, and making the push towards independence unanimous. Once New York voted to support the Declaration, John Holt, a New York printer, printed 500 broadsides (posters).
Holt Broadside Those broadsides were distributed to all of the government officials in New York. Holt then fled to Poughkeepsie, where he would spend the rest of the revolution before returning to Manhattan at the end of the war. Five hundred copies of Holt’s broadside exist today.
