The states formed out of the 13 original colonies (Please click stamp image to display corresponding chapter)

#2336 // 1987 Delaware Union admitted on December 7, 1787 as first state	#2337 // 1987 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Union admitted on December 12, 1787 as second state	#2338 // 1987 New Jersey Union admitted on December 18, 1787 as third state

#2339 // 1988 Georgia Union admitted on January 2, 1788 as fourth state	#2340 //1988 Connecticut Union admitted on January 9, 1788 as fifth state	#2341 // 1988 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Union admitted on February 6, 1788 as sixth state

#2342 // 1988 Maryland Union admitted on April 28, 1788 as seventh state	#2343 // 1988 South Carolina Union admitted on May 23, 1788 as eighth state	#2344 // 1988 New Hampshire Union admitted on June 21, 1788 as ninth state

#2345 // 1988 Commonwealth of Virgina Union admitted on June 25, 1788 as tenth state	#2346 // 1988 New York Union admitted on July 26, 1788 as eleventh state	#2347 // 1989 North Carolina Union admitted on November 21, 1789 as twelfth state

#2348 // 1990 Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Union admitted on May 29, 1790 as thirteenth state	#3403e // 2000 (ex pane of 20 stamps "The Stars and Stripes") Francis Hopkins Flag, 1777 Flag of the 13 independent colonies

The additional three states formed out of the 13 original colonies (Please click stamp image to display corresponding chapter)

#2533 // 1991 Vermont Union admitted on March 4, 1791 as fourteenth state Republic of Vermont founded in 1777 on land claimed by both colonies New Hampshire and New York	#1391 // 1970 Maine Union admitted on March 15, 1820 as twenty-third state Secession from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts	#1232 // 1963 West Virginia Union admitted on June 20, 1863 as thirty-fifth state Secession from the Commonwealth of Virgina during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865)

The 13 Original Colonies in 1775

Colonies from North to South: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia