Signing Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

listed alphabetically by state

Connecticut:

Samuel Huntington
Roger Sherman
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott

Delaware:

Thomas McKean
George Read
Caesar Rodney

Georgia:

Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Maryland:

Charles Carroll
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone

Massachusetts:

John Adams
Samual Adams
Elbridge Gerry
John Hancock
Robert Treat Paine

New Hampshire:

Josiah Bartlett
Matthew Thornton
William Whipple

New Jersey:

Abraham Clark
John Hart
Francis Hopkinson
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon

New York:

William Floyd
Francis Lewis
Philip Livingston
Lewis Morris

North Carolina:

Joseph Hewes
William Hooper
John Penn

Pennsylvania:

George Clymer
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Morris
John Morton
George Ross
Benjamin Rush
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson

Rhode Island:

William Ellery
Stephen Hopkins

South Carolina:

Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Edward Rutledge

Virginia:

Carter Braxton
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
George Wythe

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