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CHAPTER XX.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

HARTFORD was reached on the 29th by the
two delegates, where, in a secret meeting with
Governor Trumbull and others, they heard the
plan arranged for the surprise of Ticonderoga.
Cushing, John Adams, and Paine joined them,
and soon afterward, in company with the Con-
necticut delegation, the Massachusetts deputies
entered New York with great ceremony. With
their number increased to fourteen by the ad-
dition of the New York delegates, they crossed
the Hudson, escorted by five hundred gentle-
men and two hundred militia. Through New
Jersey the honors continued, and at Philadel-
phia the climax was reached. Says Curwen
"Journal:" --

"Early in the morning a great number of persons
rode out several miles, hearing that the Eastern del-
egates were approaching, when, about eleven o'clock,
the cavalcade appeared (I being near the upper end
of Fore Street); first, two or three hundred gentle-
men on horseback, preceded, however, by the newly

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