how many signers were there on the declaration of independence?

Fifty Six signers

Delaware:

• George Read • Caesar Rodney

• Thomas McKean

Pennsylvania :

• George Clymer • Benjamin Franklin

• Robert Morris • John Morton

• Benjamin Rush • George Ross

• James Smith • James Wilson

• George Taylor

Massachusetts:

• John Adams • Samuel Adams

• John Hancock • Robert Treat Paine

• Elbridge Gerry

New Hampshire:

• Josiah Bartlett • William Whipple

• Matthew Thornton

Rhode Island :

• Stephen Hopkins • William Ellery

New York:

• Lewis Morris • Philip Livingston

• Francis Lewis • William Floyd

Georgia:

• Button Gwinnett • Lyman Hall

• George Walton

Virginia :

• Richard Henry Lee • Francis Lightfoot Lee

• Carter Braxton • Benjamin Harrison

• Thomas Jefferson • George Wythe

• Thomas Nelson, Jr.

North Carolina:

• William Hooper • John Penn

• Joseph Hewes

South Carolina:

• Edward Rutledge • Arthur Middleton

• Thomas Lynch, Jr. • Thomas Heyward, Jr.

New Jersey :

• Abraham Clark • John Hart

• Francis Hopkinson • Richard Stockton

• John Witherspoon

Connecticut :

• Samuel Huntington • Roger Sherman

• William Williams • Oliver Wolcott

Maryland:

• Charles Carroll • Samuel Chase

• Thomas Stone • William Paca

There were 56 signers. Not all the signers were delegates at the time Independence was declared. Apparently over the course of a couple years as new delegates would get voted in they would ask if they could sign the Declaration and it would be brought out for them to sign. I just saw a show on the Declaration the other day. Thomas Jefferson wrote the famous copy we all know today specifically to be signed. It is said Hancock signed first with a flourish, as a bit of "In your face". It is said Hancock said "He want the King to be able to see it (his signature) without his glasses".

56 - and here is some interesting (to some) trivia relating to this: July 4, 1776

Declaration of Independence Adopted and Printed

Late in the morning of July 4, the Declaration was officially adopted, and the "Committee of Five" took the manuscript copy of the document to John Dunlap, official printer to the Congress. Signed first by John Hancock, only two people, Charles Thomson as Secretary and John Hancock as President of the Continental Congress signed on this date.

August 2, 1776

Declaration Signed

The document was signed by most of the members on August 2. George Wythe signed on August 27. On September 4, Richard Henry Lee, Elbridge Gerry, and Oliver Wilcott signed. Matthew Thornton signed on November 19, and Thomas McKean signed in 1781.

Benjamin Franklin was the oldest to sign the document. He was born January 17, 1706.

How many delegates did not sign? There were fifty-eight delegates from the thirteen colonies, and fifty-six signatures. Therefore three people did not sign. Yes, I know the math is a little off! Robert Livingston of New York was there for the vote on July 2, but was recalled before the August 2 signing and replaced by another New Yorker. His fellow countryman, Thomas Willing, was not so willing and did not sign. And a Pennsylvanian named John Dickinson was always dead-set against the whole matter of independence.

Justice James Wilson signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

~Independence was declared by adoption of the Lee Resolution on July 2, 1776. It was not signed, but the original text does indicate the 12 colonies whose delegations did approve it. The New York delegation was not authorized to vote for the resolution and did not approve the resolution.

The document entitled "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America" was adopted by delegates of those same 12 colonies on July 4, when the Second Continental Congress revised the text of the draft previously submitted by the Committee of Five. New York cast its vote in favor on July 9. Although commonly referred to as the "Declaration of Independence", that document is not the resolution by which the colonies announced their rebellion: rather, it was intended to amplify, justify and explain the Lee Resolution which had already declared colonial independence.

After the New York delegation cast its affirmative vote, the final text was sent to Timothy Matlack to be engrossed on July 19, 1776. The engrossed document now on display at the National Archives was returned to the Continental Congress on August 2. A few of the delegates were in attendance that day and signed, but it took almost a year to collect the 56 signatures of all the delegates.

Of course, Rhode Island had jumped the gun and passed its own Declaration of Independence on May 4, 1776.

Fifty-six people signed the Declaration of Independence. How many of them were Lutheran?

They died, finally. Jefferson and Adams became Presidents, Franklin became an envoy, Hancock became a Governor. Many had valuable careers. Ceasar Rodney, a real Hero, rode all a thank you to Philadelphia from Rhode Island to vote whilst he wasquite unwell. whilst the votes have been solid, he rode each and all the previously abode and died. the guy did his accountability.

the declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th 1776 and was created regarding the new world as being free....anyway it was signed by 56 people

56

I believe that they all had normal hearing; therefore, none.

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