A fraudulent recreation of a page from the June 3, 1775, issue of the Cape Fear Mercury, a North Carolina newspaper, which supposedly printed the text of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Published in Collier's Magazine in 1905, the reproduction was quickly shown to be a hoax.
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Hoyt, William Henry. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: A Study of Evidence Showing that the Alleged Early Declaration of Independence...is Spurious. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1907. Accessed online via Google Book Search.
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"S. Millington Miller"
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