Rare Copy of U.S. Declaration of Independence Discovered – In Britain

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“I called over to my boss and said, ‘I think you need to come and have a look at this,’” he said, according to a report from the BBC.

Scurr had been cataloging the papers of Capt. Thomas Fitzherbert, an 18th-century Royal Navy officer whose ship, HMS Raisonable, captured the American vessel Dalton off the coast of Portugal.

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