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(than the chaste broadside that John Dunlap printed.”
John Dunlap was not yet 30 when the manuscript was brought to his office, but he had been established as a printer since he was about 20. Like many a printer of the day, he was also a newspaper publisher. He had established the Pennsylvania Packeft in 1771. Eventually, in January, 1791, it evolved into the first American daily newspaper.
Years later, John Dunlap was rescribed as a man of stocky, athletic build, who had been pariellyblind from youth and wore glasses. He had purchased his - printing business from his uncle, William Dunlap, a cousin of Franklin’s by marriage.
The printed Declaration of Independence that came from John Dunlap's shop on July 5 was a single sheet, at least one copy of which i« 18% by 15 inches, mar-* gins Included.
Distribution began immediately. That day, Hancock began sending out copies with covering letters — to the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania, to the convention in New Jersey. John Adams sent a copy to a friend that day; Gerry sent a copy to each of two friends. To the States to the north, to the States to he south went worthy John Dunlap’s print job.
In Philadelphia, the Declaration was read July >8 at the State House. In New Ydrk the next' day, the brigades under General Washington’s command1 were drawn up in hollow squares on theid parades at 6 p.m. and independence was proclaimed.
The equestrian statue of George III was pulled down that night by the Sons of Freedom, and the next day the debtors were let out of jail in pursuance of the Declaration of Independence.
In Williamsburg, independence
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