Sez here, nothing in particular happened in Philadelphia at the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776: Though both Jefferson and Adams later claimed the signing ceremony took place on July 4, David McCullough wrote in his biography of John Adams: No such scene, with all the delegates present, ever occurred at Philadelphia. In fact, most delegates signed the document on Aug. 2, when a clean copy was finally produced by Timothy Matlack, assistant to the secretary of Congress; some waited even later to sign, and the names on the document were made public only in January 1777. twincities/opinion/columnists/ci_26085710/valerie-strauss:-popular-misconceptions-about-american
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