<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Rhode_Island_and_Providence_Plantations" id="mwUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations">Rhode Island</a> becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III" id="mwUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George III">George III</a>.<sup about="#mwt59" 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="./May_4#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="#mwt56" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLippitt1906">Lippitt, Charles Warren (1906). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YsJOAQAAIAAJ&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" id="mwBeI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBeM">The Rhode Island Declaration of Independence, May 4 1776</i></a>. Providence, R.I: Rhode Island Citizens Historical Association. p.<span id="mwBeQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>30. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwBeU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwBeY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1599182" id="mwBec" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">1599182</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt56" class="Z3988" id="mwBeg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Rhode+Island+Declaration+of+Independence%2C+May+4+1776&amp;rft.place=Providence%2C+R.I&amp;rft.pages=30&amp;rft.pub=Rhode+Island+Citizens+Historical+Association&amp;rft.date=1906&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1599182&amp;rft.aulast=Lippitt&amp;rft.aufirst=Charles+Warren&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DYsJOAQAAIAAJ%26newbks%3D1%26newbks_redir%3D0%26printsec%3Dfrontcover%23v%3Donepage%26q%26f%3Dfalse&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+4"></span></span>