The fifty-six signers of the Declaration were as follows: Roger Sherman. Samuel Huntington, William Williams, and Oliver Wolcott, of Con necticut; Ca-ar Rodney, George Read. and Thomas Meliwan, of Delaware; Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall. and George Walton, of Georgia; Samuel Chase. William Paca, Thomas Stone. and Charles Carroll of Carrollton. of Maryland; John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and Ethridge Gerry. of :Massachusetts; Josiah Bartlett, William Whip ple, and Ilatthew Thornton, of New Hampshire; Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, .Mohr Hart. and Abraham Clark. of New Jersey: William Floyd. Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris. of New York; William Hooper. Joseph Hewes, and John Penn, of North Carolina : Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin. John Morton. George Clymer. James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, and George Ross. of Pennsylvania ; Stephen Hopkins and William Ellery. of Rhode Island: Edward Mitled[re, Thomas Heyward, Jun., Thomas Lyneh. and Arthur Middle ton, of South Carolina : and George Wythe, Rich ard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison. Thomas Nelson. Jun., Francis Light foot Lee, and Carter Braxton, of Virginia.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Much useful material may be Bibliography. Much useful material may be found in Emmet, History of the Inception and Drat tiny of the Declaration of Independence; with a Collection of Autographs of the Signers, and Other Documents (New York, 18761, which however, is not generally accessible. Consult, also: Rise of the Republic of the United States (Boston, 1872) ; Greene, Historical I iew of the American Rerolution (Boston, 1865) ; Ellis, "The Sentiment of Independence, its Growth and Con in Winsor. Aarratirc and Critical
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