Did Matlack pen the Declaration of Independence
An article chronicles Timothy Matlack as the likely author of the Declaration of Independence engrossing and copying. It notes his role as secretary to Charles Thomson, his skill as a penman, and the identification of his hand in the Broadside and journal entries. It recounts the history of the document’s copying, printing, and later preservation.
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Timothy Matlack
Charles Thomson
Thomas Jefferson
Continental Congress
Charles ‘Thomson
New Castle
Del
Congress
Pennsylvania
Herth
Matlack
Thimson
George Bond
Thomas Edison
Alexander Hamilton
Thomson
Library of Congress
Washington
New Hampshire
John Dunlap
Philadelphia
Journal of the Congress
Journal
John Hancock
Mr. Hunt
John Quincy Adams
William J. Stone
Stone
State Department
Patent Office
Secretary of State
Agai
United Colonies
United States of America
Con- Tt
New York
Assembly of New York
Birth Certificate of Independence Explained and Found
A 1776 declaration of independence and the birth document are showcased in Washington. The original parchment is in the State Department library with a facsimile in the National Museum. The article traces the Jefferson committee draft, July 4 passage, and signing timeline and notes grave memorial efforts for signers.
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Union
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Alaska
Continental Congress
America
Department of State
National Museum
Washington
Philadelphia
Richard Henry Lee
Virginia
John Adams
Great Britain
Lafayette Day tribute to a French youth and liberty
The author evokes a tall noble youth whose sacrifice for liberty aided France and a kingless land. He risked fortune and life not for king or reward but for freedom, bringing victory and liberty by unbought aid. The speaker pledges to honor September sixth as a symbol of lasting human rights.
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France
Independence Message by Harlowe R Hoyt
A compact patriotic verse urging the honoring of independence and liberty. The poem emphasizes preserving freedom as a divine guard, honoring those who fought for the flag and land.
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Harlowe R. Hoyt
Memory of Signers Should Be Honored
A proposal urges erecting a Washington memorial to the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. It notes many signers are little remembered, lists several names, and argues for their names in stone and bronze with a monument or temple at the capital.
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Washington
Adamses
Charles Carroll
Samuel Chase
Benjamin Franklin
Elbridge Gerry
John Hancock
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
Richard Henry Lee
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Philip Livingston
Robert Morris
William Peca
Robert Treat Paine
Edward Rutledge
Roger Sherman
John Witherspoon
Oliver Walcott
Bartlett
Braxton
Clarke
Clymer
Floyd
Gwinnett
Hall
Walton
Whipple
Williams
Wilson
Wythe
Hewes
Livingston
Lynch
Morton
Ross
Stockton
Taylor
United States
England
John Adams
Adams
Jefferson
Carroll
Thomas Lynch
South Carolina
Lke
Button Gwinnett
Georgia
John Morton
Pennsylvania
James Smith
Connecticut
William Whipple
Duty to Hand Down Blessings Birthday Reflection
On the nation’s birthday the piece urges remembering others’ deeds and asks readers to consider their duty to preserve for future generations the blessings inherited, emphasizing civic responsibility and national heritage.
Light and Delicate Doughnut and Sauce Recipes
The excerpt lists a doughnut recipe using sour cream sour milk soda salt eggs sugar ginger and flour fried in fat. It also details Swiss Salad Dressing with honey olive oil yolks and whipped cream plus a Halibut Casserole with vegetables and tomato juice and a Chicken a la King Waldorf with mushrooms peppers and cream. The closing line cites R W Emerson.
Good Things For The Table From A Historic Menu
A vintage recipe collection outlines methods for steak with onion tomato sauce, English country style ham with onions and stock gravy, scalloped mushrooms with bread crumbs, Dr Wiley’s Whole Wheat Bread, and soft pone. It includes step by step cooking times and ingredients like butter, salt, pepper, stock, and flour.
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Clerk
Holmesburg
Gaillard Hunt
Robert Sherman
R. R. Livingston
Committee of the Whole
Con
Thornton
Rush
Smith
Taylor and
George Clinton
John Alsop
R. Rt. Livingston
Henry Wisner
Thomas Willing
Charles Humphreys
John Rogers
Baltimore
Thomas McKean
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Society of Descendants of the Signers
Matthew Thornton
Oliver Wolcott
Lafayette
Conus
Linde
Columbia
Emerson
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