Handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence discovered in Maine

While researching town records, staff at the Clerk’s Office in the town of Wells, Maine, recently found a handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence. After the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, printed copies of the document were distributed around the colonies. These copies were made by Philadelphia printer John Dunlap of Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, and only 26 of the Dunlap broadsides survived, according to the National Archives.The Mass