Easton’s Declaration reading remains a 250-year mystery
Local tradition credits Northampton County magistrate Robert Levers with reading the Declaration in Easton’s Centre Square on July 8, 1776, but historical evidence is inconclusive.
We know this: The Declaration of Independence was publicly read aloud for the first time on July 8, 1776. We know that it happened in Philadelphia, Trenton and here in Easton’s Centre Square.