Facts and Dates
June 12 to June 27, Thomas Jefferson creates the first drafts of the declaration.
June 28, a draft of the Declaration of Independence is read to the Congress.
July 4, Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
- New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton - Massachusetts
John Hancock, 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 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, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross - Delaware
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean - 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 - North Carolina
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn - South Carolina
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton - Georgia
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
