He determined to unite the Northern colonies and introduce a more efficient administration based on the pattern of the royal provinces.
他决心统一北方殖民地,并根据皇家省份的模式引入更有效的行政管理。
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Historian Gordon Wood says they helped unite all the colonies against Britain, even though not everybody approved of the Boston Tea Party.
历史学家戈登伍德说, 他们帮助所有殖民地联合起来反对英国, 尽管并不是每个人都赞成波士顿倾茶事件。
美国历史
The way was fully prepared, therefore, when, on June 7, the Virginia delegation in the Congress moved that " these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states."
The convention of the Old Dominion, on May 15, instructed its delegates at Philadelphia to propose the independence of the United Colonies and to give the assent of Virginia to the act of separation.