A typo in the Declaration of Independence?
Dissemination of public documents was slow and labor-intensive in 1776. Its too late to know for sure, but its interesting to speculate why a colonial printer hurried, perhaps carried away by the excitement would print copies of the Declaration of Independence and get the date wrong: June, weeks before the document was actually signed....
Published By: PhysOrg - Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
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