When we picture the Declaration of Independence, most of us immediately think of the document handwritten on parchment and signed at the bottom by fifty-six members of the Second Continental Congress. Few individuals from the first two generations of Americans shared that view, however. The vast majority of those citizens never saw the Congress’s document, … Continue reading The Declaration of Independence: Did John Hancock Really Say That about his Signature?—and Other Signing Stories
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