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The Mecklenburg Declaration In 1819, 44 years after the purported event, the Raleigh Register broke the news that the citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, had made a Declaration of Independence over a year before the Continental Congress had made theirs. No one challenged this claim unil 1829, when a posthumously published letter written by Thomas Jefferson dismissed the Mecklenburg Declaration as a hoax. The issue of authenticity has been disputed ever since. References:
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