When did we first use the term "USA" ?

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Yes. You’d think there would be many months and even years of wrangling over the name of the new country.

[Mahaloth]

@samclem

I think you can find book cites from the 1830s-1840s using U.S.A. to mean the country. I’ll try to post them later tonight–after Cleveland beats Golden State.

1. Cleveland lost.

2. Did you find anything?

[samclem]

@Mahaloth

1. Cleveland lost.

2. Did you find anything?

1810–Legal book American Precedents of Declarations: Collected Chiefly from Manuscripts of ... - John Anthon - Google Books
1818- A child’s instruction book The Child's Instructer: Consisting of Easy Lessons for Children, on Subjects ... - John Ely - Google Books

1820–History of the Protestant Episcopal Church–15 hits in the book–some as early as 1786

An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South-Carolina

[butler1850]

A USA button was adopted widely in 1777 for Continental troops and used widely across many regions. Bottom row, middle shows a picture of one.