| # | Location | Owner | Provenance | Reference |
| 1 | New Haven, Connecticut | Beinecke Library, Yale University | | |
| 2 | Bloomington, Indiana | Lilly Library, Indiana University | Previous owner was Henry N. Flynt of Greenwich, Connecticut. | |
| 3 | Portland, Maine | Maine Historical Society | Given to the society in 1893 at the bequest of John S. H. Fogg. | |
| 4 | Chicago, Illinois | Chicago Historical Society | Signed by John Steward (1747–1829) of Goshen, New York; sold July 2, 1975, at auction, by Christie's, London; later sold to the Chicago Historical Society. | |
| 5 | Baltimore, Maryland | Maryland Historical Society | Fragment of upper left area of the document, including the first 36 lines. | |
| 6 | Boston, Massachusetts | Massachusetts Historical Society | | |
| 7 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Houghton Library, Harvard University | Donated in 1947 by Carleton R. Richmond. | |
| 8 | Williamstown, Massachusetts | Williams College | Previously owned by the Wood family; sold at auction, April 22, 1983, by Christie's, New York. | |
| 9 | Princeton, New Jersey | Scheide Library, Firestone Library, Princeton University | Currently owned by William R. Scheide; bought by John H. Scheide from A. S. W. Rosenbach. | |
| 10 | New York, New York(last known location) | Private collector | Sold by the New-York Historical Society to a private collector in the United States, sometime between 1993 and 2008. | |
| 11 | New York, New York | New York Public Library | | |
| 12 | New York, New York | Morgan Library | Once owned by the Chew family; sold April 1, 1982, at auction at Christie's, New York. | |
| 13 | Exeter, New Hampshire | American Independence Museum | Copy discovered in 1985 in the Ladd-Gilman House in Exeter. | |
| 14 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | American Philosophical Society | Acquired from the Library of Congress in 1901 in a trade for Benjamin Franklin's Passy imprint of The Boston Independent Chronicle "Supplement." | |
| 15 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Fragment including the first 32 lines, thought to be likely an uncorrected proof, from the Frank M. Etting collection; Etting asserted it was this document that had been read in public. However, Charles Henry Hart wrote in 1900: "The endorsement is in the handwriting of the late Frank M. Etting, who died insane, one of the most inexact and inaccurate of collectors." | |
| 16 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Independence National Historical Park | Previously owned by Col. John Nixon, appointed by the sheriff of Philadelphia to read the Declaration of Independence to the public on July 8, 1776, in the State House yard; presented to the park by his heirs in 1951. | |
| 17 | Dallas, Texas | Dallas Public Library | "The Leary Copy" discovered in 1968 amid the stock of Leary's Book Store of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a crate that had been unopened since 1911. Ira G. Corn Jr. and Joseph P. Driscoll of Dallas bought the manuscript on May 7, 1969. A group of 17 people later sold it to the Dallas city government. | |
| 18 | Charlottesville, Virginia | University of Virginia | 1/2. Found in 1955 in an attic in Albany, New York, where it had been used to wrap other papers. Bought by Charles E. Tuttle Company of Rutland, Vermont; later sold to David Randall, who sold it in 1956 to the university. | |
| 19 | Charlottesville, Virginia | University of Virginia | 2/2. "The H. Bradley Martin Copy"; exhibited at the Grolier Club in 1974; sold on January 31, 1990, to Albert H. Small, who gave it to the university. | |
| 20 | Washington, D.C. | Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division | Acquired in 1867 as part of the purchase of documents assembled by Peter Force. | |
| 21 | Washington, D.C. | Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington Papers | Fragment copy with 54 lines; thought to be the copy George Washington read to the troops on July 9, 1776, in New York. | |
| 22 | Washington, D.C. | National Archives | Inserted into the Continental Congress manuscript journal, previously attached with a seal. | |
| 23 | Roving copy | Norman Lear | Found in the back of a picture frame bought at a yard sale for $4.00 at an Adamstown, Pennsylvania flea market; now owned by a consortium which includes Norman Lear; sold in 2000 for $8.14 million; previously sold for $2.42 million on June 4, 1991. | |
| 24 | London, United Kingdom | The National Archives, Colonial Office Papers | General William Howe and Vice Admiral Richard Howe from the flagship Eagle, off Staten Island, sent this copy with a letter dated August 11, 1776, which states, "A printed copy of this Declaration of Independency came accidentally to our hands a few days after the dispatch of the Mercury packet, and we have the honor to enclose it." | |
| 25 | London, United Kingdom | The National Archives, Admiralty Papers | Vice Admiral Richard Howe sent this copy from the flagship Eagle, then "off Staten Island" with a letter dated July 28, 1776. | |
| 26 | London, United Kingdom | The National Archives, Colonial Office Papers | Discovered in box of documents in 2009. Exact provenance is currently unknown. | |
