creator:United States.

title: In Congress, July 4, 1776. : A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled.

place: New-York

format: 49.0 cm. wide by 30.0 cm.high, 1 sheet ([1] p.)

description: "Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary." Watermark: Strassburg bend and lily over "GR." N-YHS copy presented by Lucius Wilmerding. Cf. NYHS Quarterly 32 (1948).

identifier: SY1776 no.4

provenance: New-York Historical Society