Question

Who are the original signers of the Declaration of independence

Answer 1

The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, was signed by 56 delegates of the Continental Congress. Here is a list of the original signers, organized by their respective colonies:

### Delaware
1. George Read
2. Caesar Rodney
3. Thomas McKean

### Pennsylvania
4. George Clymer
5. Benjamin Rush
6. Edward Rutledge
7. John Morton
8. George Ross
9. Benjamin Franklin
10. John Dickenson
11. James Smith
12. Robert Morris
13. Charles Carroll

### Massachusetts
14. John Hancock
15. Samuel Adams
16. John Adams
17. Robert Treat Paine
18. Elbridge Gerry

### New Hampshire
19. Josiah Bartlett
20. William Whipple
21. Matthew Thornton

### Virginia
22. George Wythe
23. Richard Henry Lee
24. Thomas Jefferson
25. Benjamin Harrison
26. Thomas Nelson Jr.
27. Francis Lightfoot Lee
28. Carter Braxton

### New York
29. William Floyd
30. Philip Livingston
31. Francis Lewis
32. Lewis Morris

### Georgia
33. Button Gwinnett
34. Lyman Hall
35. George Walton

### North Carolina
36. William Hooper
37. Joseph Hughes
38. John Penn

### New Jersey
39. Richard Stockton
40. John Witherspoon
41. Francis Hopkinson
42. John Hart
43. Abraham Clark

### Connecticut
44. Roger Sherman
45. Samuel Huntington
46. William Williams
47. Oliver Wolcott

### Rhode Island
48. Stephen Hopkins
49. William Ellery

### Maryland
50. Samuel Chase
51. William Paca
52. Thomas Stone
53. Charles Carroll of Carrollton

### South Carolina
54. Edward Rutledge
55. Thomas Heyward Jr.
56. Thomas Lynch Jr.

These men represented the 13 American colonies and collectively declared independence from British rule.