Lost copy of Declaration of Independence found in England

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Harvard University researchers says they found a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence in southern England: http://cbsn.ws/2pbwPyc

The discovery was made by Harvard University researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen, according to a university news release published Friday. The pair located the rare document in a records office in Chichester, a city near England’s southern coast.

The first clue that the document existed came in 2015, when Sneff spotted an unusual listing from a catalogue for the West Sussex Record Office: “Manuscript copy, on parchment, of the Declaration in Congress of the thirteen United States of America.”

Sneff and Allen, who work with Harvard’s Declaration Resources Project, had been searching the catalogue for unrelated reasons. At the time, no one knew there was any other parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence besides the original one signed July 4, 1776, kept at the National Archives in Washington.

“We had no reason to expect a document like this to exist at all,” Sneff told The Washington Post.

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