File:Mecklenburg Declaration hoax.JPG
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| Description | A fraudulent recreation of a page from the June 3, 1775, issue of the Cape Fear Mercury, a North Carolina newspaper, which supposedly printed the text of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Published in Collier's Magazine in 1905, the reproduction was quickly shown to be a hoax. |
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| Source | Hoyt, William Henry. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: A Study of Evidence Showing that the Alleged Early Declaration of Independence...is Spurious. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1907. Accessed online via Google Book Search. |
| Author | "S. Millington Miller" |
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