Brothers: this year see the celebration of 250 years of our republic. Did you know, however:

The first shots of the Revolution took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in December of 1774.
That General Sullivan rolled a cannon up to the door of the Royal Governor, then in Portsmouth, and ordered him to leave in December of 1774.
The first Declaration of Independence in the Colonies took place in Concord as the preface to our original constitution.
The first constitution in the colonies was crafted in New Hampshire.
The re-write of that constitution pre-dates the U.S. Constitution by a bit more than a year.