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. |