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Fairfax man can keep Declaration copy

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Declaration of Independence, Fairfax Circuit Court

Long before there were bloggers, there were preachers in pulpits charged with delivering momentous news.
Thus it was on July 17, 1776, that the Executive Council of Massachusetts took action to let colonists know that our nascent nation had severed its ties with England.
In order to broadcast the broadside, the council ordered that copies of the […]

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