Chapter I: Front Matter

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A BIOGRAPHY
OF THE
SIGNERS
OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,

AND OF
WASHINGTON AND PATRICK HENRY.

WITH
AN APPENDIX,
CONTAINING THE
Constitution of the United States
AND OTHER DOCUMENTS.

_BY L. CARROLL JUDSON_,
A MEMBER OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR.

“The proper study of mankind is man.”

PHILADELPHIA:
J. DOBSON, AND THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & CO.
1839.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, A. D. 1839, by TIMOTHY CALDWELL, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

E. G. DORSEY, PRINTER,
LIBRARY STREET.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.
Declaration of Independence, 9
Thomas Jefferson, 13
John Hancock, 25
Benjamin Franklin, 30
Roger Sherman, 38
Edward Rutledge, 45
Thomas M’Kean, 49
Philip Livingston, 55
George Wythe, 58
Abraham Clark, 61
Francis Lewis, 64
Richard Stockton, 66
Samuel Adams, 70
Dr. Benjamin Rush, 78
Oliver Wolcott, 83
George Read, 85
Thomas Heyward, 88
Robert Morris, 92
John Witherspoon, 97
Thomas Lynch, Jr. 102
Matthew Thornton, 105
William Floyd, 108
William Whipple, 112
Francis Hopkinson, Esq. 115
Josiah Bartlett, 117
Arthur Middleton, 122
James Wilson, 126
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, 132
William Williams, 136
Samuel Huntington, 139
George Walton, 142
George Clymer, 146
Carter Braxton, 152
John Morton, 155
Richard Henry Lee, 158
Stephen Hopkins, 164
Robert Treat Paine, 170
George Taylor, 174
Francis Lightfoot Lee, 177
Thomas Stone, 181
Lewis Morris, 184
John Hart, 188
Button Gwinnett, 191
William Ellery, 195
Lyman Hall, 200
John Penn, 203
Elbridge Gerry, 208
William Paca, 215
George Ross, 219
Benjamin Harrison, 223
Cæsar Rodney, 230
Samuel Chase, 236
William Hooper, 248
Thomas Nelson, 253
James Smith, 260
Joseph Hewes, 267
John Adams, 273
George Washington, 292
Patrick Henry, 303