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Timothy Matlack
A 1790 portrait of Matlack by Charles Willson Peale on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Born
(1736-03-28)March 28, 1736
Haddonfield, Province of New Jersey, British America
Died
April 14, 1829(1829-04-14) (aged 93)
Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting place
Wetherills Cemetery in Audubon, Pennsylvania
Nationality
American
Known for
"Scribe of the Declaration of Independence"
Spouses
Eleanor Yarnell
(m. 1758; died 1791)
Elizabeth Claypoole
(m. 1797)
Timothy Matlack (March 28, 1736 – April 14, 1829) was an American politician, military officer and businessman who was chosen in 1776 to inscribe the original United States Declaration of Independence on vellum.[1]. A brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular and powerful leader in the American Revolutionary War, Matlack served as Secretary of Pennsylvania during the conflict and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1780. Matlack was known for his excellent penmanship, and his handwritten copy of the Declaration is on public display in the Rotunda of the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.
Matlack became one of Pennsylvania's most provocative and influential political figures. He was removed from office by his political enemies at the end of the Revolutionary War, but returned to power in the Jeffersonian era.[2]
^Brubaker, Jack (2016-06-28). "The Scribbler: The man who really wrote the Declaration of Independence". (LNP) Lancaster Online. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
^Coelho, Chris. Timothy Matlack: Scribe of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2013, p. 55.
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1781), and served as its clerk and preacher. With brother-in-law TimothyMatlack, another charter member, he designed its meeting house (1783–84), at...
governed" 27 grievances Document's history signing Charles Thomson TimothyMatlack Journals of the Continental Congress United Colonies Independence Hall...
ISBN 978-0-14-303475-9. At Internet Archive. Coelho, Chris (2013). TimothyMatlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson, North Carolina:...
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Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. Coelho, Chris (2013), TimothyMatlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence, McFarland, p. 61, ISBN 978-0-7864-7443-1...
governed" 27 grievances Document's history signing Charles Thomson TimothyMatlack Journals of the Continental Congress United Colonies Independence Hall...
States gaining independence in the Revolutionary War, in 1790 Colonel TimothyMatlack, Samuel Maclay and John Adlum were commissioned by the Supreme Executive...
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governed" 27 grievances Document's history signing Charles Thomson TimothyMatlack Journals of the Continental Congress United Colonies Independence Hall...
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governed" 27 grievances Document's history signing Charles Thomson TimothyMatlack Journals of the Continental Congress United Colonies Independence Hall...
governed" 27 grievances Document's history signing Charles Thomson TimothyMatlack Journals of the Continental Congress United Colonies Independence Hall...
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