Heritage of the Founding Fathers

Heritage of the Founding Fathers

Signers of the

Declaration of Independance

Georgia:

  Button Gwinnett

  Lyman Hall

  George Walton

North Carolina:

  William Hooper

  Joseph Hewes

  John Penn

South Carolina:

  Edward Rutledge

  Thomas Heyward, Jr.

  Thomas Lynch, Jr.

  Arthur Middleton

Massachusetts:

John Hancock

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

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

New York:

  William Floyd

  Philip Livingston

  Francis Lewis

  Lewis Morris

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New Jersey:

  Richard Stockton

  John Witherspoon

  Francis Hopkinson

  John Hart

  Abraham Clark

New Hampshire:

  Josiah Bartlett

  William Whipple

Massachusetts:

  Samuel Adams

  John Adams

  Robert Treat Paine

  Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:

  Stephen Hopkins

  William Ellery

Connecticut:

  Roger Sherman

  Samuel Huntington

  William Williams

  Oliver Wolcott

New Hampshire:

  Matthew Thornton