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>> The original 13 colonies are also the original 13 states.

... as the original 13 states included territory which later became both the District of Columbia (originally made up of parts of Maryland and Virginia, though the Virginia portion was later returned to the state) and the state of West Virginia (which, in essence, seceded from Virginia during the Civil War).

The original 13 colonies included territory which ultimately became the first 13 states, plus DC and West Virginia, as well as all or parts of Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Missisippi.

Kentucky, in fact, was Kentucky County, Virginia, in 1776, and was divided into the Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties of Virginia in 1780. Virginia did not give up what is now Kentucky until shortly before it became the fifteenth state in 1792.

----- jim o\-S