counties

[Keith Broaders]

The, counties ) in the thirteen colonies were represented in their respective state legislatures in 1776,

The delegates did not represent the people the represent theie respective communitis.Every county in all of the13 states was represented in their state legislature. represented 

as the new state governments were built directly upon the foundation of the existing colonial legislative systems. 

Following the Declaration of Independence, the former colonies transitioned into states by adopting constitutions, often by converting their existing colonial legislatures (or "provincial congresses") into new state legislative bodies.