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A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry. With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States and other documents

L. Carroll Judson · 1839 · Scanned text

181,029 words · about 12 h 41 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1839, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/05037657); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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About this book

Author
L. Carroll Judson
Language
English
Published
1839
Length
181,029 words · about 12 h 41 min
Sections
8 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (8)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. Contents about 3 min
  3. Preface about 11 h 14 min
  4. Appendix about 52 min
  5. Section I about 12 min
  6. Section II about 1 min
  7. Section III under 1 min
  8. Section IV about 18 min

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Front matter

I

A BIOGRAPHY

OF THE

Contents

Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, - Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Edward Rutledge, Thomas M'Kean, Philip Livingston, George Wythe, Abraham Clark, Francis Lewis, - Richard Stockton, Samuel Adams, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Oliver Wolcott, George Read, Thomas Hey ward, Robert Morris, John Witherspoon, Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Matthew Thornton, William Floyd, William Whipple, Francis Hopkinson, Esq.

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