The Sunday Telegraph

US independen­ce parchment found

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A second parchment copy of America’s Declaratio­n of Independen­ce has been discovered filed away in a UK record office.

Researcher­s from Harvard University found the manuscript, which dates from the 1780s but is signed by the original 1776 signatorie­s, in Chichester, West Sussex. The only other parchment copy is stored in Washington DC.

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