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Creating the Declaration: A Timeline.

Richard Henry Lee, a delegate from Virginia, read a resolution before the Continental Congress “that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

July 2, 1776: The Lee resolution was adopted by 12 of the 13 colonies.

On July 2, the Lee resolution was adopted by 12 of the 13 colonies (New York did not vote). Immediately afterward, Congress began to consider the Declaration. Congress made some alterations and deletions to it on July 2, 3, and the morning of the 4th.

July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence – Adopted and Printed

Late in the morning of July 4, the Declaration was officially adopted, and the “Committee of Five” took the manuscript copy of the document to John Dunlap, official printer to the Congress. Printed Declaration of Independence.

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