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The first state in the Union was Delaware.
ratify the Constitution of the United States
The original colonies that formed the United States, in the order that they each ratified the Constitution, were:DelawarePennsylvaniaNew JerseyGeorgiaConnecticutMassachusettsMarylandSouth CarolinaNew HampshireVirginiaNew YorkNorth CarolinaRhode Island
Should this question be referring to the United States before slavery was abolished in 1865, here are a few slave holding States that bordered on States were slavery was illegal: Slave State Maryland: borders with non slave States of: Pennsylvania and West Virginia; Slave State of Delaware bordering non slave States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This is only a short list of slave States bordering non slave States at the time of the US Civil War.
Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution and become a state.