One of my Grand fathers on my Grand mothers side signed the Mecklenburg Declaration Matthew McClure After the Mecklenburg Declaration was first published in 1819, supporters compiled a list of men who they believed had signed the document. William Polk, who said that he had heard his father Thomas Polk read the Declaration to the public, listed the names of fifteen delegates present when the Declaration was adopted; other testimony produced other names.[16] A pamphlet issued in 1831 by the government of North Carolina listed the names of twenty-six delegates. Eventually, supporters of the Declaration settled on a list of twenty-seven or twenty-eight men who they claimed had signed the document. In alphabetical order, they are: 1. Abraham Alexander2. Adam Alexander3. Charles Alexander4. Ezra Alexander5. Hezekiah Alexander6. John McKnitt Alexander7. Waightstill Avery8. Rev. Hezekiah J. Balch9. Richard Barry10. Dr. Ephraim Brevard 11. Maj. John Davidson12. Henry Downs13. John Flenneken14. John Foard15. William Graham16. James Harris[17]17. Robert Harris[18]18. Robert Irwin19. William Kennon 20. Matthew McClure21. Neil Morrison22. Duncan Ochiltree23. Benjamin Patton24. John Phifer25. Col. Thomas Polk26. John Queary27. David Reese28. Zacheus Wilson, Sr. Modern historians have emphasized that the story of the 1775 signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration can be dated no earlier than 1819.[19] This is no contemporaneous evidence of a signing, nor did John McKnitt Alexander mention such an event in his notes.[19] As far as it is known, none of the signers ever claimed to have signed the Mecklenburg Declaration.
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