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On July 4 John Hancock, president of the Congress, signed the authorized version, copies were made and sent to the colonies. On July 8 the Declaration was first read aloud to the citizenry, a crowd gathered before ithe State House in Philadelphia. Agreeably Assenting On July 9, General George Washington, with his troops in New York, wrote Congress: “Agreeably to the request of Congress I caused the Declaration o be proclaimed before all the irmy under my immediate :ommand... the measure seemed
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