A rare 1776 printing of the US Declaration of Independence — one of just 11 known to survive and the only copy outside the United States — has been discovered by a volunteer sorting historical letters and papers at The National Archives in Kew.
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Rare 1776 Declaration of Independence Discovered by National Archives in UK–One of Only 11 Known to Survive
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An original copy of The Declaration of Independence found by UK archivists in the artifacts of a captured 18th-century American ship
One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship For Michael Scurr, a volunteer at the National Archives in Kew, west London, it was “just a boring old Thursday morning” when he sat down in late May to catalogue a collection of docu…
LONDON (AP) — Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain’s National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the benefit of future researchers.
Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain's National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the benefit of future researchers.
LONDON — Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain’s National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the benefit of future researchers.
A rare 1776 printing of the US Declaration of Independence – one of just 11 known to survive and the only copy outside the United States – which has been discovered at The National Archives in Kew, west London.
LONDON - A "vanishingly rare" copy of the Declaration of Independence has been found in London, dug up in archives holding documents from the British capture of an American privateer ship in 1776, just as the United States celebrates its…
A volunteer cataloging 18th-century Royal Navy letters at Britain's National Archives stumbled onto a rare original printing of the Declaration of Independence -- one of just 11 known copies, captured at sea from an American privateer in 1776.
Almost 250 years after an American ship carrying news of the Declaration of Independence was captured by a British warship, the copy of America’s founding principles it carried is making […]
The number of existing Exeter copies of the Declaration of Independence just jumped from 10 to 11, thanks to a discovery by a UK archivist going through some paperwork from an 18th century Royal Navy Captain.
A rare 1776 printing of the US Declaration of Independence — one of just 11 known to survive and the only copy outside the United States — has been discovered by a volunteer sorting historical letters and papers at The National Archives in Kew.
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