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Rare parchment copy of Declaration of Independence found by Harvard researchers

Published April 22, 2017 1:54pm PDT

FOX 11 Los Angeles

(FOX News) - An extremely rare copy of the Declaration of Independence has been found in an obscure records office in southern England.

The National Archives in Washington has the only other parchment document like it, say Harvard researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen.

They uncovered the copy at the West Sussex Records Office, in Chichester, England.

The Sussex archive listed the document as "manuscript copy, on parchment, of the Declaration in Congress of the thirteen United States of America," in its online catalog.

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