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Debunking Myths of the Declaration and Independence Day
Elmo Scott Watson guides readers through the tangled myths about July 4 1776 and the Declaration. He notes Jefferson wrote the draft, the Lee resolutions preceded it, and Adams praised July 2 as the true Independence Day while detailing who signed on August 2 and who later joined.
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John Trumbull
England
Thomas Jefferson
Continental Congress
John Tancock
Congress
Washington
Franklin
John Adams
Independence Hall
Richard Henry Vee
Jefferson
Tefferson Md
Coolidge
John Coolidge
Toston
Adams
St. Jefferson
Richard Henry Lee
American Philosophical Society of
Delaware
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
New York
Americana
Massachusetts
Benjamin Prinkin
John Adam
Roger Sherman
Robert R. Livingston
Lee
America
George
John Dunlap
United
United States of American
United States of America
John Hancock
Charles Thomson
Statehouse
Hancock
Thomson
David Rittenhouse
John Marshall
National Shrine
Library of Congress
Timothy Matlack
Thomas McKean
Continental Army
Matthew Thornton
New Hampshire
Thornton
George Washington
Philadelphia
Cambridge
Mass