Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical Introduction

Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical Introduction provides contemporary readers with a brief summary of the lives of the fifty-six revolutionaries who signed the Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States of America.

Signers of the Declaration of Independence include John Adams [Massachusetts], Samuel Adams [Massachusetts], Josiah Bartlett [New Hampshire], Carter Braxton [Virginia], Charles Carroll [Maryland], Samuel Chase [Maryland], Abraham Clark [New Jersey], George Clymer [Pennsylvania], William Ellery [Rhode Island], William Floyd [New York], Benjamin Franklin [Pennsylvania], Elbridge Gerry [Massachusetts], Button Gwinnett [Georgia], Lyman Hall [Georgia], John Hancock [Massachusetts], Benjamin Harrison [Virginia], John Hart [New Jersey], Joseph Hewes [North Carolina], Thomas Heyward, Jr. [South Carolina], William Hooper [North Carolina], Stephen Hopkins [Rhode Island], Francis Hopkinson [New Jersey], Samuel Huntington [Connecticut], Thomas Jefferson [Virginia], Francis Lightfoot Lee [Virginia], Richard Henry Lee [Virginia], Francis Lewis [New York], Philip Livingston [New York], Thomas Lynch, Jr. [South Carolina], Thomas McKean [Delaware], Arthur Middleton [South Carolina], Lewis Morris [New York], Robert Morris [Pennsylvania], John Morton [Pennsylvania], Thomas Nelson, Jr. [Virginia], William Paca [Maryland], Robert Treat Paine [Massachusetts], John Penn [North Carolina], George Read [Delaware], Caesar Rodney [Delaware], George Ross [Pennsylvania], Benjamin Rush [Pennsylvania], Edward Rutledge [South Carolina], Roger Sherman [Connecticut], James Smith [Pennsylvania], Richard Stockton [New Jersey], Thomas Stone [Maryland], George Taylor [Pennsylvania], Mathew Thornton [New Hampshire], George Walton [Georgia], William Whipple [New Hampshire], William Williams [Connecticut], James Wilson [Pennsylvania], John Witherspoon [New Jersey], Oliver Wolcott [Connecticut] and George Wythe [Virginia].

Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical Introduction is an abridgement of Signers of the Declaration: Historic Places Commemorating the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, produced under the direction of Series Editor Robert G. Ferris, et al., and published by the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service in 1973 as a part of the series, The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings, Volume XVIII.