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Random Facts about Signers of the Declaration of Independence
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS
The following is the list of names appended to that famous
document, with the colony which each represented in
Congress: New Hampshire--Josiah Bartlett; William Whipple,
Matthew Thornton. Massachusetts--John Hancock, John Adams,
Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine. Rhode Island--Elbridge
Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery. Connecticut--Roger
Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver
Wolcott. New York--William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis
Lewis, Lewis Morris. New Jersey--Richard Hockton, John
Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark.
Pennsylvania--Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin
Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George
Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross. Delaware--Caesar Rodney,
George Reed, Thomas McKean. Maryland--Samuel Chase, Thomas
Stone, William Paca, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
Virginia--George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot
Lee, Carter Braxton. North Carolina--William Hooper, Joseph
Hewes, John Penn. South Carolina--Edward Rutledge, Thomas
Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton.
Georgia--Button Gwinntet, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
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