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The Balfour Declaration was a single paragraph in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It read:
The actual process of the signing of the Declaration of Independence began on 2 August. The first of the signatories was John Hancock, the President of the Congress, who signed, in bold, below the text and in the centre of the Declaration. Other delegates, starting with those from the northernmost state-New Hampshire-and continuing unto the southermost state-Georgia-then began to sign.