Timothy Matlack, scribe of the Declaration of Independence
By: Chris Coelho
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780786474431
Subjects: History; Statesmen; Biography; United States
Description: "On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the State House in Pennsylvania. Later in the month the proclamation was engrossed on vellum. Delegates began signing that finely penned document in early August. The man who read the Declaration and then later embossed it"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.