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Appendix A: State and Local Declarations of Independence
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Massachusetts
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Counties
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Appendix B: Local Resolutions on Independence: Some Examples
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New York
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Grand Jury Presentments
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Appendix C: The Declaration of Independence: The Jefferson Draft with Congress's Editorial Changes
Force, Peter. American Archives: consisting of a collection of authentick records, state papers, debates, and letters and other notices of publick affairs, the whole forming a documentary history of the origin and progress of the north American colonies; of the causes and accomplishment of the American Revolution; and of the constitution of government for the United States, to the final ratification thereof. 4th Series, Volume VI. Washington: M. St Clair Clarke, 1846. Available at HeinOnline.
