Declaration Comparazation- Oh yeah

The Declaration of Independence and the Second Treatise, Of Civil Government have some of the same ideas. The question is: Did Thomas Jefferson read the Second Treatise and base the Declaration of Independence off it? Personally, I recognize that there are several similarities between the two, but I have no way of proving weather or not Jefferson read Locke’s work. He could have been told about Locke; or he could have read something that had copied Locke’s ideas. Because all of these ideas regarding basic human rights to life, liberty, property, est. were circulating through the minds of all the educated people of the 1800’s; it is very likely that Jefferson was exposed to Locke’s work during his formal education.