Reading from left to right, the signatories’ names appear as follows. The states they represented also have been provided below. The hyperlink assigned to man will send you to a one-minute video about that signer from Freedom Project Media.
First Column
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton;
Second Column
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn;
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton;
Third Column
John Hancock of Massachusetts, President of the Congress
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;
Fourth Column
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;
Fifth Column
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris;
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark;
Sixth Column
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;
Matthew Thornton of New Hampshire, who could not be present for the signing on August 2, signed on November 19, 1776.
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