cxlii. 23, together with the letter of Hancock transmitting it to

that State. There is another copy, similarly attested, in the Boston Public Library; and a reduced fac-simile of such a copy, with its attestations, is given in the _Orderly-book of Sir John Johnson_ (p. 220). It was generally, I think, inscribed on the records of the several States, and I have seen it in the records of the towns in New England. (Cf. _N. H. State Papers_, viii. 200.) It is copied as it appeared in the _Penna. Journal_, July 10th, in Moore's _Diary of the Rev._, i. 262; and in England it was reprinted in _Almon's Remembrancer_, iii. 258; _Annual Register_, 1776, p. 261; and in the _Gentleman's Mag._, Aug., 1776.

The earliest authorized reprint in any collection appeared at Philadelphia in 1781, in _The Constitutions of the several States of America; The Declaration of Independence; The Articles of Confederation; The Treaties between his most Christian Majesty and the United States of America. Published by order of Congress_ (Sabin,