The Declaration of Independence lithograph, circa 1850, by Napoleon Sarony after John Trumbull. National Museum of American History. Public Domain
A courier arrived in Philadelphia on Monday, May 27, 1776, bearing a dispatch from Williamsburg, Virginia, with critical instructions for the colony’s congressional delegation. It would change the course of history.
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