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Has it been narrowed down or proven that John Adams or Alex Hamilton were elsewhere during the signing of the Declaration of Indep? Or is it still up in the air?

1d 6h ago by lemmy.world/u/Patnou in askhistorians

The signing was not a single event, as depicted in some artwork. There's a wiki about the question of when all that occurred. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

July 4th is when it was first approved by vote.

I used to listen to this historian a very famous one but I forget his name. And made the point of saying one of those two were away getting the knocker slobbered. I really want to say it was either in southern LA or southern Georgia. I brought it up in history in late college and figured it was a decent question. But holy christ did that woman lay down some hellfire on me. But where is actual history going to say the light fluffy fluf version or where they actually were once evidence is produced? Why not just say they were else where at a den of iniquity?