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In Congress, July 4, 1776. A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
United States.
Contributor:
United States. Continental Congress.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15161.
Standardized Title:
Declaration of Independence
Language:
English
Genre:
Broadsides.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))
Place of Publication:
America: Boston, : Printed by John Gill, and Powars and Willis, in Queen-Street., [1776]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
"Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thompson [i.e., Thomson], secretary."
An earlier issue (Evans 15162) lacks the imprint.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 15161).
Cited in:
Evans 15161
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1954
Walsh, M.J. "Contemporary broadside editions of the Declaration of Independence." Harvard Library bulletin 3 (1949): 31-43, 10
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