Articles of Confederation Perpetual Union John Dickinson Founding Father Province of Pennsylvania Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Second Continental Congress Philadelphia Union
By June 1776, the name "United States of America" appeared in drafts of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, authored by John Dickinson, a Founding Father from the Province of Pennsylvania, and in the Declaration of Independence, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776.