Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence

The venerated emigrants who first planted America, and most of their distinguished successors who laid the foundation of our civil liberty, have found a resting place in the peaceful grave. But the virtues which adorned both these generations; their patience in days of suffering; the courage and patriotic zeal with which they asserted their rights; and the wisdom they displayed in laying the foundations of our government; will be held in lasting remembrance.

Table of Contents:

John Hancock

Samuel Adams

John Adams

Robert Treat Paine

Elbridge Gerry

Josiah Bartlett

William Whipple

Matthew Thornton

Stephen Hopkins

William Ellery

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott

William Floyd

Philip Livingston

Francis Lewis

Lewis Morris

Henry Misner

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

Francis Hopeinson

John Hart

Abraham Clark

Robert Morris

Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Franklin

John Morton

Geoge Clymer

James Smith

George Taylor

James Wilson

George Ross

Caesar Rodney

George Read

Thomas M'Kean

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

Charles Carroll

George Wythe

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Nelson, Jun

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton

William Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn

Edward Rutledge

Thomas Heyward

Thomas Lynch, Jun

Arthur Middleton

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

George Walton









Reverend Charles Augustus Goodrich (1790-1862) was an American author and Congregational minister, who popularized the motto "a place for everything and everything in its place."