Timothy Matlack

A 1790 portrait of Matlack by [[Charles Willson Peale]] on display at the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|Museum of Fine Arts]] in [[Boston]] Timothy Matlack (March 28, 1736 – April 14, 1829) was an American politician, military officer and businessman who was chosen in 1776 to inscribe the original United States Declaration of Independence on vellum. A brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular and powerful leader in the American Revolutionary War, Matlack served as Secretary of Pennsylvania during the conflict and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1780. Matlack was known for his excellent penmanship, and his handwritten copy of the Declaration is on public display in the Rotunda of the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.

Matlack became one of Pennsylvania's most provocative and influential political figures. He was removed from office by his political enemies at the end of the Revolutionary War, but returned to power in the Jeffersonian era. Provided by Wikipedia
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    An oration delivered March 16, 1780 : before the patron, vice-presidents and members of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge
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    --the report of the Commissioners appointed to view the river Delaware : agreeably to an act of Assembly passed the 28th of September, 1789 : to his excellency Thomas Mifflin, president of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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    --the report of the Commissioners appointed to view the western waters : to his excellency Thomas Mifflin, President of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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