Independence Baby
The Connecticut Courant reported both the Declaration of Independence and the baptism of Independence
Royal Danish American
Daniel Thibou’s Gazette is the only known surviving newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence in the Caribbean.
World News
It took two months for the Declaration of Independence to travel from Philadelphia to Florence—a distance of more than 4,000 miles and a process that involved multiple translations.
Virginia Gazette(s)
Alexander Purdie’s strategy of printing the last few paragraphs first meant that the Declaration of Independence appears in three different issues of two different Virginia Gazettes.
No Small Mirth
Mary Katharine Goddard celebrated the Declaration of Independence as only a printer could
Freshest News
The American Gazette only lasted six weeks, but those weeks coincided with the Declaration of Independence