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Declaration of Independence Drafting and Signers Revealed
The article traces Jefferson as author who drafted the declaration in June 1776, with Franklin Adams Sherman Livingston as committee members. It notes Lee’s resolutions precipitating independence and the July 4 1776 adoption by twelve colonies, signed August 2 by 54 delegates and two later signers bringing total to 66.
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Great Britain
Stampact
Paul Revere
Lexington and Concord
Continental Congress
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Bunker Hill
George III
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel
John Adams
Patrick ‘Weary
Mecklenburg County
N. C
Thomas Paine
Paine
Pennsylvania
Colonies
Richard Henry Lee
Virgginia
Philadelphia
Free
Library of Congress
Massachusets
Congress
New York
Independence
New Jersey
Virginia
Lee
Jefferson
Massachusetts
Roger Shermin
Connecticut
Robert R. Livingston
Adams
Tle
Franklin
Tedard Henry Lee
American Philosophical Society of
Delaware
South Carolina
United States of America
Hvely
George Tie
George II
George Washington
Thomas McKean
Matthew Thornton
New Hampshire