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Declaration of Independence

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DCA01
DCA02
62
DCA03
411*
DCA04
82*
420*
PJA08
PJA09
PJA12
PJA13

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mentioned12

AFC02
DJA02
242
DJA03
LJA02

praise for8

account of drafting and adoption of4

read publicly in Boston4

AFC02

drafted by Thomas Jefferson3

AFC02

John Dunlap prints first published text3

AFC02

newspaper printings3

AFC02

origins, justification, and effect of3

read in Mass. churches and recorded in town books3

PJA04

signing of3

PJA04

allusion to2

PJA11

committee to draft2

AFC02

committee to prepare2

PJA04

drafting and revision of2

PJA04

engraving of “Congress Voting Independence” by Savage2

DJA02
162 (illus. facing)
vii

JA's copy of2

PJA04

JA sends AA his autograph copy of Jefferson's draft2

AFC02

print commemorating2

PJA04
346
x

printings of, in Mass.2

PJA04

revision and adoption of text2

AFC02

and Declaration of Rights1

DJA03
310

and instructions binding N.Y. delegates1

DJA02
240

and Staten Island conference1

DJA03
428

cited in court, No. 581

LJA02
394

“concerning a Declaration of Independency there is some Diversity of Sentiment”1

AFC02

Cotton Tufts on1

AFC02
62

JA and1

LJA01

Jacob Duché opposes1

DJA02
127

Jacob Duché urges rescinding of1

AFC01
157

JA on Quakers and1

AFC02
338

JA's contribution to wording of1

PJA04
341

JA sends copy of draft to AA1

PJA04
343

Jonathan Sayward on1

AFC01
111

opposed by John Dickinson1

DJA02

Rush and Stockton signers of1

AFC02
60

signers of1

DJA02
113

Tefft collects autographs of signers1

AFC02
35

Timothy Pickering's Observations on1

DJA03
337
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