Part I✦

Signers of the Declaration: Historical Background 1

Part II✦

Signers of the Declaration: Biographical Sketches 25

John Adams • Massachusetts 33 Samuel Adams • Massachusetts 36 Josiah Bartlett • New Hampshire 39 Carter Braxton • Virginia 41 Charles Carroll • Maryland 43 Samuel Chase • Maryland 45 Abraham Clark • New Jersey 47 George Clymer • Pennsylvania 49 William Ellery • Rhode Island 51 William Floyd • New York 53 Benjamin Franklin • Pennsylvania 55 Elbridge Gerry • Massachusetts 59 Button Gwinnett • Georgia 62 Lyman Hall • Georgia 65 John Hancock • Massachusetts 67 Benjamin Harrison • Virginia 70 John Hart • New Jersey 71 Joseph Hewes • North Carolina 73 Thomas Heyward, Jr. • South Carolina 75 William Hooper • North Carolina 77 Stephen Hopkins • Rhode Island 79 Francis Hopkinson • New Jersey 81 Samuel Huntington • Connecticut 83 Thomas Jefferson • Virginia 85 Francis Lightfoot Lee • Virginia 90 Richard Henry Lee • Virginia 92 Francis Lewis • New York 94 Philip Livingston • New York 96 Thomas Lynch, Jr. • South Carolina 99 Thomas McKean • Delaware 100 Arthur Middleton • South Carolina 103 Lewis Morris • New York 104 Robert Morris • Pennsylvania 106 John Morton • Pennsylvania 109 Thomas Nelson, Jr. • Virginia 110 William Paca • Maryland 113 Robert Treat Paine • Massachusetts 115 John Penn • North Carolina 116 George Read • Delaware 118 Caesar Rodney • Delaware 120 George Ross • Pennsylvania 122 Benjamin Rush • Pennsylvania 123 Edward Rutledge • South Carolina 127 Roger Sherman • Connecticut 129 James Smith • Pennsylvania 132 Richard Stockton • New Jersey 133 Thomas Stone • Maryland 135 George Taylor • Pennsylvania 137 Matthew Thornton • New Hampshire 139 George Walton • Georgia 140 William Whipple • New Hampshire 142 William Williams • Connecticut 144 James Wilson • Pennsylvania 145 John Witherspoon • New Jersey 149 Oliver Wolcott • Connecticut 152 George Wythe • Virginia 154