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  2. Thomas Lynch Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Lynch Jr. (August 5, 1749 – December 17, 1779) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina and a Founding Father of the United States. His father Thomas Lynch was a member of the Continental Congress and had signed the 1774 Continental Association. When he had to step down because ...

  3. Hopsewee - Wikipedia

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    Hopsewee Plantation, also known as the Thomas Lynch, Jr., Birthplace or Hopsewee-on-the-Santee, is a plantation house built in 1735 near Georgetown, South Carolina, in the Lowcountry. It was the main house of a rice plantation and the birthplace of Thomas Lynch, Jr. , a Founding Father who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence .

  4. United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    John Trumbull's painting Declaration of Independence has played a significant role in popular conceptions of the Declaration of Independence. The painting is 12-by-18-foot (3.7 by 5.5 m) in size and was commissioned by the United States Congress in 1817; it has hung in the United States Capitol Rotunda since 1826.

  5. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.' The Declaration of ...

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    The Declaration of Independence. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. July 4, 2022 at 7:00 AM. In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States ...

  6. Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence

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    The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Armand-Dumaresq (c. 1873) has been hanging in the White House Cabinet Room since the late 1980s. The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, with 12 of the 13 colonies voting in favor and New York abstaining.

  7. Declaration of Independence (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Declaration of Independence is a 12-by-18-foot (3.7 by 5.5 m) oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist John Trumbull depicting the presentation of the draft of the Declaration of Independence to Congress. It was based on a much smaller version of the same scene, presently held by the Yale University Art Gallery. [1]

  8. GOP congressman corrected after flubbing who signed the ...

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    "If you read the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson set forth a bill of particulars against King George and the Parliament, and one of the central allegations of it was that they were ...

  9. The story of the only man who signed the Declaration of ... - AOL

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    Handprint On Declaration Of Independence Remains A Mystery. This weekend, Americans will hold barbecues and parades to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document that's ...