<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(state)" id="mwOw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New York (state)">New York</a> became the third state to ratify the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Ratification" id="mwPA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a>.<sup about="#mwt48" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_6#cite_note-7" id="mwPQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwPg">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt42" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHough1872">Hough, Franklin Benjamin (1872). <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/americanconstit00houggoog" id="mwCBQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCBU">American Constitutions</i></a>. Albany: Weed, Parsons, &amp; Company. p.<span id="mwCBY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/americanconstit00houggoog/page/n25" id="mwCBc" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">10</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt42" class="Z3988" id="mwCBg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=American+Constitutions&amp;rft.place=Albany&amp;rft.pages=10&amp;rft.pub=Weed%2C+Parsons%2C+%26+Company&amp;rft.date=1872&amp;rft.aulast=Hough&amp;rft.aufirst=Franklin+Benjamin&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Famericanconstit00houggoog&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+6"></span> References to a 1778 Virginia ratification are based on an error in the Journals of Congress: "The published Journals of Congress print this enabling act of the Virginia assembly under date of Dec. 15, 1778.  This error has come from the MS. vol. 9 (History of Confederation), p. 123, Papers of the Continental Congress, Library of Congress." <link about="#mwt45" data-mw='{"name":"templatestyles","attrs":{"src":"Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"},"body":{"extsrc":""},"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"cite book","href":"./Template:Cite_book"},"params":{"last":{"wt":"Dyer"},"first":{"wt":"Albion M."},"title":{"wt":"First Ownership of Ohio Lands"},"url":{"wt":"https://books.google.com/books?id=byh58dkalw8C&amp;pg=PA1"},"orig-year":{"wt":"1911"},"year":{"wt":"2008"},"publisher":{"wt":"Genealogical Publishing Company"},"location":{"wt":"Baltimore"},"isbn":{"wt":"978-0-8063-0098-6"},"page":{"wt":"10"}},"i":0}}]}' href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403" id="mwCBk" rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion"/><cite about="#mwt45" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDyer2008">Dyer, Albion M. (2008) [1911]. <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=byh58dkalw8C&amp;pg=PA1" id="mwCBo" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCBs">First Ownership of Ohio Lands</i></a>. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. p.<span id="mwCBw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>10. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCB0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCB4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-8063-0098-6" id="mwCB8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8063-0098-6"><bdi id="mwCCA">978-0-8063-0098-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt45" class="Z3988" id="mwCCE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=First+Ownership+of+Ohio+Lands&amp;rft.place=Baltimore&amp;rft.pages=10&amp;rft.pub=Genealogical+Publishing+Company&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8063-0098-6&amp;rft.aulast=Dyer&amp;rft.aufirst=Albion+M.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dbyh58dkalw8C%26pg%3DPA1&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+6"></span></span>