A typo in the Declaration of Independence?
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - 10:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Dissemination of public documents was slow and labor-intensive in 1776. Its too late to know for sure, but its interesting to speculate why a colonial printer hurried, perhaps carried away by the excitement would print copies of the Declaration of Independence and get the date wrong: June, weeks before the document was actually signed.