On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Declaration of Independence was published in the Pennsylvania Evening Post.

On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, the Maryland Convention issued this resolution declaring independence from Great Britain:

We the delegates of Maryland, in convention assembled, do declare, that the king of Great Britain has violated his compact with this people, and that they owe no allegience to him; we have therefore thought it just and necessary to empower our deputies in congress to join with a majority of the united colonies in declaring them free and independent states, in framing such farther confederation between them, in making foreign alliances, and in adopting such other measures as shall be judged necessary for the preservation of their liberties . . . . We have also thought proper to call a new convention, for the purpose of establishing a government in this colony. . . . To maintain inviolate our liberties, and to transmit them unimpared to posterity, was our duty and first wish; our next, to continue connected with, and dependent on Great Britain. For the truth of these assertions, we appeal to that Almighty Being who is emphatically styled the searcher of hearts, and from whose omniscience nothing is concealed. Relying on his divine protection and affiance, and trusting to the justice of our cause, we exort and conjure every virtuous citizen to join cordially in defence of our common rights, and in maintainance of the freedom of this and her sister colonies.

The Maryland Convention had presumably received word of the Continental Congress’s passage of the resolution for independence on July 2, but apparently had not yet received a copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Sources: https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdstatehouse/html/independence.html; Proceedings of the Conventions of the Province of Maryland, Held at the City of Annapolis, in 1774, 1775, & 1776, Baltimore: James Lucas & E. K. Deaver (1836) at pp. 202-03, accessed at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofcon00mary/page/202/mode/2up