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Signed: Charles Thomson, secretary.

Evans 20790

Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Replaces cancelled LCCN 90-898119 which formerly was LCCN tes52-817. qr03 06-01-90

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United States. Continental Congress.
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
Dunlap, John, 1747-1812, printer.
Claypoole, David C., 1757?-1849, printer.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
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