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Rare parchment manuscript of US Declaration of Independence found by Harvard Researchers in England


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Rare parchment manuscript of US Declaration of Independence found in England

Two Harvard researchers have found only the second known parchment manuscript of America’s formative text in a West Sussex archive

April 22, 2017

 

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"Copies of the declaration made their way to England in the wake of its original 1776 signing, but the Sussex Declaration was made sometime in the next decade, years when America’s leading statesmen were at odds over a post-war financial crisis, an armed uprising and an uncertain constitution. Somehow the manuscript landed in Britain, possibly in the possession of the dukes of Richmond.

Sneff said she is hoping to gain access to the papers of the dukes to trace the declaration’s history, possibly as far back as Charles Lennox, a contemporary of George III who was called “the radical duke” because he supported American colonists in their rebellion against the king and parliament.

“It would be nice to associate this document with the radical duke,” Sneff said. "

 

Fascinating. Especially the signatures in this copy being not as uniform as that of the Declaration of Independence so familiar to Americans.

 

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