Thursday, June 7, 2007

Richard Henry Lee, Pennsylvania delegate to the first Continental Congress, put forth a resolution on this day in 1776 that the Congress should declare its independence from England. He likely would have authored the Declaration of Independence had he not been forced to take a leave of absence from the Congress to see to his ill wife.



Though Lee would miss his chance to write it, The Declaration of Independence was written without him, and is here presented on a copper sheet.