Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

found: WWW, July 26, 2000(Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; signed at Charlotte, N.C., May 20, 1775; handwritten original of the Meck Dec is said to have burned in a fire at the home of John McNitt Alexander, secretary of the drafting committee. The document was reconstructed from his notes but was not published until decades later. For that reason, some historians question its authenticity, as did Thomas Jefferson, whose national Declaration of Independence was adopted more than a year after the Meck Dec)

found: Calendar of the letters and documents of Peter Force ... 1940:t.p. (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence)

found: Encyc. of the Amer. Revolution, 1974 :p. 697 (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence)

found: Encyc. americana("In 1819 the Raleigh Register published the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, claiming that it had been drafted ... on May 20, 1775 ... Subsequent research has failed to authenticate this claim, and it is generally felt that it has been confused with the Mecklenburg Resolves [or, Mecklenburg Resolutions, adopted May 31, 1775]")