Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1877 — 'Old Liberty Bell.” [ARTICLE]

'Old Liberty Bell.”

The Bell Whose Somid Went Bound t the If vrld. HISTORY OF THE OLD LIBERTY BELL, Which was Hung upon the Declaration of Independence, 1776. Cast in England for the State House in Philadelphia, in 1751. Cracked by a stroke of the clapper, before being prooerly hung in 1752. Recast, and hung in the tower of Independence Hull, Juae, 1753. “Proclaimed liberty throughout all the land,” at noon, Monday, July Bth, 1776 (not July 4th.) Remoyed to Allentown, Pa., by the American troops, when they evacuated Philadelphia, to prevent its being cast into cannon by the British in 1777. Restored to its original position at the close of the Revolution, where ito remained until 1828. Broken while ringing out a firealarm one murky morning in the fall of 1828. Placed on the original timbers, in the vestibule of Independence Hall, in 1872, where it can now be seen.