Title: Timothy Matlack, scribe of the Declaration of Independence
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"--
Subjects: History, Statesmen, Biography, United States, Statesmen, united states, Statesmen, biography, United states, declaration of independence
Places: United States
People: Timothy Matlack (1736-1829)
Time periods: Revolution, 1775-1783