The following is a list of delegates from each of the colonies which signed the Declaration of Indepencence:
Delaware • George Read • Caesar Rodney
• Thomas McKean
Pennsylvania • George Clymer • Benjamin Franklin
• Robert Morris • John Morton
• Benjamin Rush • George Ross
• James Smith • James Wilson
• George Taylor
Massachusetts • John Adams • Samuel Adams
• John Hancock • Robert Treat Paine
• Elbridge Gerry
New Hampshire • Josiah Bartlett • William Whipple
• Matthew Thornton
Rhode Island • Stephen Hopkins • William Ellery New York • Lewis Morris • Philip Livingston
• Francis Lewis • William Floyd Georgia • Button Gwinnett • Lyman Hall
• George Walton
Virginia • Richard Henry Lee • Francis Lightfoot Lee
• Carter Braxton • Benjamin Harrison
• Thomas Jefferson • George Wythe
• Thomas Nelson, Jr.
North Carolina • William Hooper • John Penn
• Joseph Hewes
South Carolina • Edward Rutledge • Arthur Middleton
• Thomas Lynch, Jr. • Thomas Heyward, Jr. New Jersey • Abraham Clark • John Hart
• Francis Hopkinson • Richard Stockton
• John Witherspoon
Connecticut • Samuel Huntington • Roger Sherman
• William Williams • Oliver Wolcott Maryland • Charles Carroll • Samuel Chase
• Thomas Stone • William Paca
No, Thomas Edison did not sign the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson did though.
The 13 colonies whose delegates signed the Declaration of Independence were: DelawarePennsylvaniaMassachusettsNew HampshireRhode IslandNew York GeorgiaVirginiaNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaNew JerseyConnecticutMaryland
Yes, he did. It was the Constitution that he did NOT sign.
Richard Henry Lee did sign the declaration of independence. Along with Thomas Jefferson.
The greater majority of the delegates did not sign until August 2, 1776. Only John Hancock and the Secretary of Congress, Charles Thomson signed it on July 4, 1776. Although Congress had decreed that all delegates sign it on August 2, there were still some delegates who did not sign it till later.
How was John Adams helpful in getting the delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence
In order to sign the Declaration, a person had to be one of the delegates to the Second Continental Congress.
what day did the delegates sign the declaration of independence
The last signature of the Declaration of Independence was in early July, 1776, although 8 delegates never got to sign it themselves.
Yes. William Williams of Connecticut did sign the Declaration.
July 4, 1776 Signed on August 2, 1776.
Benjamin Franklin, was the oldest to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Yes, Stephen Hopkins did sign the Declaration of Independence.
The delegates knew that signing the Declaration was dangerous. Britain would call it treason. Treason is the crime of fighting against one's own government. Anyone who signed the Declaration could be charged with treason and hanged.
No, Rufus King did not sign the Declaration of Independence. However, Rufus King of Massachusetts did sign the Constitution.
No woman signed the Declaration of Independence.
No, Thomas Edison did not sign the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson did though.