Books of Historical Interest-The Iowa Society-Signers of the Declaration of Independence

JOHN HANCOCK, President.

New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett.
William Whipple.
Matthew Thornton.

Massachusetts.
Samuel Adams.
John Adams.
Robert Treat Payne.
Elbridge Gerry.

Rhode Island.
Stephen Hopkins.
William Ellery.

Connecticut.
Roger Sherman.
Samuel Huntingdon.
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.
James Wilson.
James Smith.
George Taylor.
George Clymer.
George Ross.

Delaware.
Cesar Rodney.
George Read.
Thomas M'Kean.

Maryland.
Samuel Chase.
William Paca.
Thomas Stone.
Charles Carroll, of
Carrollton.

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

North Carolina
William Hooper.
Joseph Hewes.
John Penn.

South Carolina.
Edward Rutledge.
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Arthur Middleton.

Georgia.
Button Gwinnett.
Lyman Hall.
George Walton.

The Declaration of Independence was duly passed by the American Congress, at Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776, and signed by John Hancock of Massachusetts, President of Congress, on same day. It was duly engrossed on parchment, and on August 2, 1776, it was signed by the above delegates from the respective states.

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