Lesson 2: 1765 to the Declaration of Independence
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Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Virginia

George Wythe

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton

New York

William Floyd

Philip Livingston

Francis Lewis

Lewis Morris

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 M'Kean

North Carolina

William Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn 

South Carolina

Edward Rutledge

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Arthur Middleton

New Jersey

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

Francis Hopkinson

John Hart

Abraham Clark


New Hampshire

Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Matthew Thornton 

Massachusetts-Bay

John Hancock

Samuel Adams

John Adams
Robert Treat Payne

Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island

Stephen Hopkins

William Ellery

Connecticut

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott

Georgia

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

George Walton

Maryland

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

Charles Carroll Of Carrollton