Signers of The Declaration of Independence

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  1. 3. he was from Albany,New York. He graduated at Yale College in 1737,and entered into mercantile businessman, and served his community as an Alderman.
  2. 6. he is from Lebaron,Connecticut. In 1777 he was appointed to the Board of War.
  3. 8. he was from Braintree Massachusetts. In May 1776 he offered a resolution that amounted to a Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
  4. 10. he was from Charleston South Carolina. He was very active member, intent on the prosecution of British Loyalists.
  5. 12. he was from Newtown Massachusetts and lived in Connecticut. When he was two his father took the family to what was then a Frontier Town.
  6. 14. he was from Down Hatherly, England. He was engaged in a long-standing political rivalry with Lochlan Mclntosh,a soldier and in state politics.
  7. 15. he was from Princeton, New Jersey he lived in North Carolina. In 1776 he signed The Declaration of Independence and placed his ships at the service of the Continental Armed Forces.
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  1. 1. he was from Shadwell, Virginia. He was tortured by the Reverend James Mawry, a learned man, in the finest classical Tradition.
  2. 2. he was from Providence Rhode Island. He left that congress in 1778 and returned to his native state to serve in its Legislature.
  3. 4. he was from Charleston South Carolina. He was captured by the british when Charleston and was overrun in 1781, and held prisoners for more than a year.
  4. 5. he was from Amesbury,Massachusetts he lived in New Hampshire. He was a member of a committee of safety, and served as a commander of a militia regiment in 1775.
  5. 7. he was from Elizabethtown,New Jersey. He continued his own study of the law while working as a Surveyor.
  6. 9. He was from Dublin,Ireland and lived in Pennsylvania. This was a frontier area at the time, so he spent much of his time engaged in serveying,only practicing law when such work was available.
  7. 11. he was from Morrisania, New York. He served on committees for the defence of New York and one for provisioning colonial forces, and another for Indian affairs.
  8. 13. he was from Elizabeth City CO he lived in Virginia. He dropped out and then managed to secure a study of law at the office of a Stephen Dewey.