...able to order that the Declaration be "fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and stile [sic] of 'The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United...same, when engrossed, be signed by every member of Congress."229 Engrossing was the process of preparing an official document in a large, clear hand....

...throughout the colonies. On July 19 the Congress "Resolved, That the Declaration passed on the 4th * * * be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and...engrossed, be signed by every member of Congress." And therefore you will see the statement made that every member of Congress was required to sign the Declaration...

...Journal of the Congress. On July 19, 1776, the Congress "Resolved, That the Declaration passed on the 4th be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and...when engrossed, be signed by every member of Congress " (Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, Vol. i, Boston, 1821, p. 48), and on August...

...appear in Way and Gideon's " Journals " at all : " Resolved, That the Declaration, passed on the 4th be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and...engrossed, be signed by every Member of Congress." Force also gives the following record under date of August 2, 1776, which does not appear in Way and...

...That the Declaration passed on the 4th, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and stile of 'The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United...engrossed, be signed by every member of Congress. On July 4 Congress had provided for publishing and distributing copies of the Declaration. On July...