THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - A Rare Declaration of Independence Has Been Found, Filed Away in England as ‘Paperwork.’
A rare surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence, seized by Britain's Royal Navy in 1776, has been uncovered in England.
A rare surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence, seized by Britain’s Royal Navy in 1776, has been uncovered in England. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in Exeter, New Hampshire, in July 1776, was discovered in The National Archives in Kew, England. The document, one of only 11 surviving from this specific printing, was seized by the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary War and had been hidden in the archives for centuries. WHEN & WHERE: The document was first uncovered in February 2023 by Michael Scurr, a volunteer cataloging Royal Navy captains’ papers, at The National Archives in Kew. KEY QUOTE: “It’s a vanishingly rare surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence,…Open