In summary, subscribers to the Thompson Hot-Pressed Bible bought a large keepsake edition. Some of those buyers were men who signed the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. According to the subscribers lists we have seen, President John Adams was not one of them. As one can see from the advertisement, John Thompson and Abraham Small financed the printing of the Bible in sections via subscriptions from over 1270 people. While some Bibles might have been given away by their owners, the signers of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence did not finance this work to get God’s
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