Moorestown's Connection to the Declaration of Independence - Timothy Matlack

Timothy Matlack, a clerk in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia:

• Scribe of the Declaration

• Born in Haddonfield to Quaker parents from Moorestown.

• His grandfather, William Matlack was one of the original English settlers in Moorestown.

• Timothy recited stories about his grandfather’s time in Moorestown.

• Timothy’s beautiful handwriting would preserve the freedoms that beckoned his grandfather to America in 1677 in the first place.

• One of them was the Freedom of Religion, as Quaker Friends were being persecuted in England.