2123. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Signers of.—[further continued].
I have received the new
publication of the Secret Journals of Congress,
wherein is stated a resolution of July
19th, 1776, that the Declaration passed on the
4th, be fairly engrossed on parchment, and
when engrossed, be signed by every member;
and another of August 2d, that being engrossed
and compared at the table, it was
signed by the members; that is to say, the
copy engrossed on parchment (for durability )
was signed by the members, after being
compared at the table, with the original one
signed on paper as before stated.—
Memorandum by Jefferson. Washington ed. i, 122.
Ford ed., x, 132.
(Aug. 1822)
