LONDON (AP) — Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain’s National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the benefit of future researchers.

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

Michael Scurr, a volunteer at Britain’s National Archives, has discovered a rare early copy of the Declaration of Independence

LONDON (AP) — Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain’s National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the…

The document was attached to a report detailing the capture of the American privateer Dalton on Christmas Eve, 1776

Michael Scurr said he had to keep the discovery from fellow volunteers at the National Archives, as well as his friends and family.

Een vrijwilliger heeft in mei in een Brits archief een zeldzaam exemplaar gevonden van de Amerikaanse Onafhankelijkheidsverklaring. Het document werd geprint in de Verenigde…