office, heorth left was replaced by young john wentworth, who was yet to be 30 years of age. the next and last of the royal governors. because we had had such a strong chief executive, new hampshire was leary of having a strong executive in any form of government. so when john wentworth left, the state had no government. the government at this time consisted of the presence of the governor and his commission. when john wentworth fled in the middle of revolutionary events, new hampshire found itself without government. so the leaders wrote to the coffin of the congress meeting in philadelphia, basically saying, what are we supposed to do, we do not have a governor. john adams among others led the charge for new hampshire. he wanted a new england state to be the first state to actually declare a form of government independent of the crown. so we drafted a small two page form of government, seen here, that was approved by the congress on january 5, 1776. this basically states that we, the small provisional congress of new hampshire, are now the government. it created a legislati

of the people of the states why did heorth", numerate all the individual states. the people as a whole were sovereign. some saw it as a vestige of the time that people of the states were sovereign. we see in the final draft that like which about the individual states is left out and we become we the people of the united states.