<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island" id="mwUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> becomes the fourth US state to ratify the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" id="mwUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a>.<sup about="#mwt46" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_9#cite_note-8" id="mwUw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwVA">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt40" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHough1872"><a href="./Franklin_B._Hough" id="mwB5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Franklin B. Hough">Hough, Franklin Benjamin</a> (1872). <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/americanconstit00houggoog" id="mwB5k" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB5o">American Constitutions</i></a>. Albany: Weed, Parsons, &amp; Company. p.<span id="mwB5s" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/americanconstit00houggoog/page/n25" id="mwB5w" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">10</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt40" class="Z3988" id="mwB50" 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+9"></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="#mwt43" 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="mwB54" rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion"/><cite about="#mwt43" 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="mwB58" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB6A">First Ownership of Ohio Lands</i></a>. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. p.<span id="mwB6E" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>10. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB6I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB6M" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-8063-0098-6" id="mwB6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8063-0098-6"><bdi id="mwB6U">978-0-8063-0098-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt43" class="Z3988" id="mwB6Y" 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+9"></span></span>