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unusual facts about American Declaration of Independence



Ferdinand von Schirach

His American great-grandmother is a descendant of two signatories of the American Declaration of Independence, and descends from the Founding Fathers of the United States, the Mayflower pilgrims.

John Brice, Jr.

In 1766, Brice became embroiled in a war of words Samuel Chase, a vocal opponent of the Stamp Act and later a signer of the American Declaration of Independence.

Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

OSS officers met repeatedly with Ho Chi Minh and other Viet Minh officers during late August and Archimedes Patti claims to listened to Ho read to him a draft of the Proclamation which he believed sounded very similar to the American Declaration of Independence.

Ridley Park, Pennsylvania

John Morton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence, was born and raised in a log cabin adjacent to East Ridley Avenue.

Thomas Hopkinson

He enrolled his son Francis Hopkinson, later a signatory of the Declaration of Independence in the first classes at the Academy.


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Aghagurty

It was the ancestral home of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signatory of the American Declaration of Independence, whose grandfather, Charles Carroll the Settler, is believed to have been born in the locality—his father being known as Daniel Carroll of Aghagurty and Littermurna.