The people who purchased the British broadsides of the Declaration were probably more interested in celebrating Hancock than hanging him

In the Scots Magazine, “An Englishman” complained about two phrases that have become the most well-known and treasured parts of the Declaration

Perhaps after James Humphreys, Jr. printed the Declaration of Independence, he counted himself among the “numbers who had been obliged to hide themselves” and welcomed the “returning Liberty” of British rule