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Lossing, Benson J. (Benson John), 1813-1891.

Lives of the signers of the Declaration of Independence : a reprint of an 1848 original.

Aledo, TX : WallBuilder Press, 1995.

384 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

"In 1776, fifty-six Americans signed a simple document which unalterably changed the course of this country. Most know of the importance of the Declaration of Independence, but few know much about its Signers. This book (originally published in 1848 by eminent 19th-century historian, Benson J. Lossing) provides a brief biography of each signer of the Declaration. Accompanied by fifty engravings, these biographies shed light on what Lossing terms, 'the chief events in the lives of the men who stood sponsors at the baptism in blood of our infant republic.' Through this book - long used in American schools - we, too, can discover the private and public virtues of those venerated Americans who helped create the most stable and enviable nation in the world."--Page 4 of cover

United States. Declaration of Independence -- Signers.

United States, Declaration of Independence -- Signers.

Biographical sketches of the signers of the Declaration of American Independence

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Reprint. Originally published: Biographical sketches of the signers of the Declaration of American Independence. New York : G.F. Cooledge, 1848.

Includes bibliographical references.

Josiah Bartlett -- William Whipple -- Matthew Thornton -- John Hancock -- John Adams -- Samuel Adams -- Robert Treat Paine -- Elbridge Gerry -- Stephen Hopkins -- William Ellery -- Roger Sherman -- Samuel Huntington -- William Williams -- Oliver Wolcott -- William Floyd -- Philip Livingston -- Francis Lewis -- Lewis Morris -- Richard Stockton -- John Witherspoon -- Francis Hopkinson -- John Hart -- Abraham Clark -- Robert Morris -- Benjamin Rush -- Benjamin Franklin -- John Morton -- George Clymer -- James Smith -- George Taylor -- James Wilson -- George Ross -- Caesar Rodney -- George Read -- Thomas McKean -- Samuel Chase -- Thomas Stone -- William Pace -- Charles Carroll -- George Wythe -- Richard Henry Lee -- Thomas Jefferson -- Benjamin Harrison -- Thomas Nelson, Jr. -- Francis Lightfoot Lee -- Carter Braxton -- William Hooper -- Joseph Hewes -- John Penn -- Edward Rutledge -- Thomas Heyward, Jr. -- Thomas Lynch, Jr. -- Arthur Middleton -- Button Gwinnett -- Lyman Hall -- George Walton -- Robert R. Livingston -- The Declaration of Independence -- Articles of Confederation -- The Federal Constitution -- The Stamp Act -- Names of delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

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