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The
Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern
Suffolk County,
New York, United States, at the eastern end of the
South Shore of
Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York. At the time of the
2020 United States Census, it had a total population of 28,385. The town includes the
village of
East Hampton, as well as the
hamlets of
Montauk,
Amagansett,
Wainscott, and
Springs. It also includes part of the incorporated village of
Sag Harbor.
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Rhode Island, officially the
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the
New England region of the
northeastern United States. Rhode Island is the
smallest in area, the
eighth least populous, and the
second most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states, following
New Jersey. Its official name is also the longest of any state in the Union. Rhode Island is bordered by
Connecticut to the west,
Massachusetts to the north and east, and the
Atlantic Ocean to the south via
Rhode Island Sound and
Block Island Sound. The state also shares a short maritime border with
New York. On May 4, 1776, Rhode Island became the first of the
Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, and was the fourth among the newly sovereign states to ratify the
Articles of Confederation on February 9, 1778. It boycotted the
1787 convention that drew up the
United States Constitution and initially refused to ratify it. On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th and last state to ratify the Constitution.
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