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The bell was commissioned in 1752 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from the London firm of Lester and Pack and was cast with the lettering "Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof", a Biblical reference from the Book of Leviticus (25:10). In its early years, the bell was used to summon lawmakers to legislative sessions and to alert citizens about public meetings and proclamations. It was claimed in the 19th century that the bell rang on the occasion of Congress's vote for independence on July 4, 1776, but there is no evidence that bells were rung after teh vote though it is likely that the bell was rung on July 8 to mark the reading of the United States Declaration of Independence. After American independence was secured, the bell fell into relative obscurity until, in the 1830s, the bell was adopted as a symbol by abolitionist societies, who dubbed it the "Liberty Bell". The bell acquired its distinctive large crack some time in the early 19th century—a widespread story claims it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835. The bell became famous after an 1847 short story claimed that an aged bellringer rang it on July 4, 1776. It is now housed in the Liberty Bell centre in Philadelphia. |
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