On this day 250 years ago to the New Hampshire delegation in the Continental Congress wrote to Meshach Weare, Chairman of the New Hampshire Committee of Safety to obtain instructions from home as to how they should vote on Independence:

The Convention of Virginia have instructed their delegates to use their endeavors that Congress should declare the United Colonies a Free independent state, North Carolina have signified the same desires. South Carolina & Georgia will readily Accede. The Proprietary Governments will be the last to agree to this necessary step, the disaffected in them are now exerting themselves but their exertions are no more than the last struggles of expiring factions. We hope in a few months Civil Governments will be established in all the United Colonies on a firm & permanent Basis. We should be glad to know the sentiment of our Colony on the important subject of a total separation from Great Britain. Let our own opinions be what they may, we think ourselves in duty bound, to act agreeable to the sentiments of our constituents.

Source: https://americanfounding.org/entries/second-continental-congress-may-28-1776/