In Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776, and published it the following day. Express riders carried copies of the first printing of the Declaration to Boston, arriving on July 15. A Salem newspaper, the American Gazette, published the Declaration of Independence on the 16th. The full Declaration of Independence was entered into the town record by Ipswich, MA, town clerk John Baker. The full handwritten original in the Town Records 1738-79, Box 9, page 274 at the Ipswich Town Clerk’s site.
The Massachusetts Provincial Council ordered on July 17th that the Declaration of Independence be printed, and a copy sent to the ministers of each Parish of every denomination within this State, and that they be required to read the same to their respective congregations on the first Lord’s Day after they received it, and after publication thereof, to “deliver the said Declaration to the clerks of the Several Towns or Districts; who are hereby required to record the same in their respective town, or District Books, there to remain as a perpetual Memorial thereof.”
On July 17, 1776, the Massachusetts Bay Council resolved to order an official printing of the Declaration of Independence. This copy of that printing, created by Boston printer Ezekiel Russell, was sent to the Rev. Lev. Frisbie. The house at 15 County Street was built in 1788 for Rev. Lev. Frisbie, who was installed as pastor of First Church in Ipswich on Feb. 7, 1776. He remained in that post for thirty years.
Historic Ipswich 
Do you know who handwrote it?
Town Clerk John Baker