In Congress, July 4, 1776
Subtitle: a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15164
Publisher: Printed by E. Russell?
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Salem
Language: eng
Other titles: Declaration by the representatives of the United States of America
Work titles: Declaration of Independence
Notes: "Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, President. Attest. Charles Thomson, Secretary. In Council, July 17th, 1776. Ordered, that the Declaration of Independence be printed; and a copy sent to the ministers of each parish ... In the name, and by order of the Council, R. Derby, Jun. President. A true copy attest, John Avery, Dep. Sec'y."

"The arrangment of the heading and the similarity of type would suggest that this was printed at Salem by E. Russell previous to the 'official' Massachusetts edition ..."--Walsh, J. Harvard Library Bulletin, v. 3, no. 1, p. 38-39.

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1953

Walsh, M.J. "Contemporary Broadside Editions of the Declaration of Independence." Harvard Library Bulletin 3 (1949): 31-43, 12

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