Daily Bites of the Declaration of Independence #6:Transporting Armies and waging war against United States
A revolutionary year in America The 240th anniversary of independence This undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows a 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence. The broadside printing, to be auctioned April 5 in New York, was ordered on July 17, 1776, by the Massachusetts Bay Council and read by the Rev. Levi Frisbie to his congregation in Ipswich, north of Boston.