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Popular culture[edit]

The section headed Popular culture, which is actually all about penmanship and its subsequent developments, is quite interesting, but the connection with Timothy Matlack seems to rest on his signature on the Declaration of Independence, which seems a bit tenuous for such an extended description. What should be done about the inclusion of this paragraph in this article? --DThomsen8 (talk) 02:32, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Much of that paragraph is word for word the same as this website. Someone is plagiarizing. 216.36.132.66 (talk) 18:34, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Matlack was not a signer of the document; rather, he was charged with engrossing it. As a noted penman, Matlack is known to have inscribed other historical documents of the time. The penmanship visible in the Declaration has inspired a number of modern fonts and for this reason I felt it was important to highlight this connection. That said, the paragraph leads with "Handwriting...", which might take away from the focus of the article on Matlack. For this reason, I have changed the introduction to bring the focus back on Matlack. User:Freequaker (talk) 21:50, 25 March, 2011 (UTC)

Can someone add a "blurb" about the film National Treasure to this section? Thanks. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 10:39, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Timothy Matlack who penned the Declaration of Independence is Tomislav Matlakowski[edit]

The fact is the real name of Timothy Matlack who penned the Declaration of Independence is Tomislav Matlakowski. Several years before the revolutionary events began to unfold in the New World, he left the voivodship of Bratslav and sailed for America, where he at first worked as a brewer, then took some interest in the Quaker movement and finally went for politics. Sometimes he was given calligraphic work: he penned some landmark official documents, including George Washington’s commission as commanding general of the Continental Army. [1]Geo8rge (talk) 02:41, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That page appears to be an April Fool's joke, as you may know. —Kevin Myers 05:02, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Timothy Matlack's genealogy is well documented in Asa Stackhouse's "Col. Timothy Matlack, Patriot and Soldier". [N.p.]: Privately printed, 1910. Timothy Matlack is a descendant of William Matlack who was born in 1648 in Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, England and immigrated to Burlington, New Jersey, in 1677 aboard the ship Kent. —User:Freequaker User talk:Freequaker 22:29, 25 March, 2011 (UTC)

Declare (Typeface)[edit]

Declare_(typeface) redirects here, so where is the information about it? -- 97.94.196.110 (talk) 20:19, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

this makes no sense -- please correct it with a transition[edit]

" He was a delegate to the Conference of Committees which met in June to plan for the Convention which would write a new constitution for Pennsylvania. These laws were to form the basis of a new government. That night, Matlack likely attended John Dunlap's print shop, and printed copies of the declaration were ready by morning. Later that month Matlack engrossed the Declaration of Independence on parchment. "

Obviously, someone deleted a sentence they didnt' like for the usual stupid hypercritical reason. There needs to be an extra sentence before the words "That night ..." to introduce the Declaration (NOT the Pennsylvania Constitution). This is typical for wiki edits -- remove something you don't like for some stupid reason and then leave the context incomprehensible.2600:1700:A3A0:1630:C0EC:DF19:B5C1:DB96 (talk) 04:37, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]