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An extremely rare copy of the Declaration of Independence has been found in an obscure records office in southern England.The National Archives in Washington has the only other parchment document like it, say Harvard researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle AllenThey uncovered the copy at the West Sussex Records Office, in Chichester, England.The Sussex archive listed the document as “manuscript copy, on parchment, of the Declaration in Congress of the thirteen United States of America,” in its online catalog.[snip]“When I looked at it closely, I started to see details, like names that weren’t in the right order — John Hancock isn’t listed first, there’s a mark at the top that looks like an erasure, the text has very little punctuation in it — and it’s in a handwriting I hadn’t seen before,” she said. “As those details started adding up, I brought it to Danielle’s attention and we realized this was different from any other copy we had seen.”
