Signers of the Declaration of Independence
The signers of the Declaration represented the new states as follows:
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
,
William Whipple
,
Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
,
Samual Adams
,
John Adams
,
Robert Treat Paine
,
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
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 Stockton
,
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 Read
,
Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
,
William Paca
,
Thomas Stone
,
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 Gwinnett
,
Lyman Hall
,
George Walton
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