The United States elevated to glory and honor : a sermon preached before His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. L.L.D., governor and commander in chief, and the Honorable the General Assembly of the state of Connecticut, convened at Hartford, at the anniversary election, May 8th, 1783 / by Ezra Stiles, D.D. President of Yale-College. New-Haven : Printed by Thomas & Samuel Green, MDCCLXXXIII [1783].
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This sermon is the earliest known published reference to Jefferson's authorship of the Declaration of Independence. -- Declaring independence : the origin and influence of America's founding document, page 23.