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Appendix A: State and Local Declarations of Independence
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5
States
1354
131846 - ?-??
Massachusetts
1462
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Counties
1354
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Appendix B: Local Resolutions on Independence: Some Examples
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New York
1462
2?-??
Grand Jury Presentments
1354
4?-??
Appendix C: The Declaration of Independence: The Jefferson Draft with Congress's Editorial Changes
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Bartlett, Gardner, Elizabeth French Bartlett, and Helen Hadley, eds. Watertown Records, Comprising the Fifth Book of Town Proceedings 1745/6 to 1769, and the Sixth Book of Town Proceedings 1769 to 1792. The Graphic Press, 1928.