How did the Declaration of Independence end up in the United States?
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There is no one original copy. After the Declaration of Independence was drafted multiple "fair copies" were made unsigned, Some of these were sent to printers to be printed throughout the colonies. Sometime later a fair copy was made and adopted by the Continental Congress, most of whose members then signed it. This copy is known as the "engrossed" copy.
The Declaration was never sent by the Congress to King George of England. He found out about it when printed broadsheets containing the text arrived with the news from the colonies. These were first printed in Belfast in August of 1776 and carried from there to London immediately afterwards.
(I should probably qualify the above by stating that King George found out about it "publicly" in August. Of course, the British had many spies and sympathizers in the Congress and they undoubtedly knew of the whole progress of the Declaration which began in the spring of 1776. So, secretely George would have known of the text almost as soon as it was produced plus the two weeks to carry it to England. Publicly the text first appeared in Ireland and Scotland, not England, probably because of censorship.)
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