Lives of the signers of the Declaration of independence / by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862.

Contributor:

Huntington, Robert Goodloe Harper, 1800- Publisher.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers.

United States.

Washington, George, 1732-1799.

Washington, George.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

Genre:

Biographies.

Embossed bindings (Binding)

Leather bindings (Binding) -- 1841.

Physical Description:

479 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Hartford : R.G.H. Huntington, 1841.

Contents:

Introduction

Massachusetts Declaration: John Hancock; Sammuel Adams; John Adams; Robert Treat Paine; Elbridge Gerry

New-Hampshire Declaration: Josiah Bartlett; William Whipple; Matthew Thornton

Rhode Island Declaration: Stephen Hopkins; William Ellery

Connecticut Declaration: Roger Sherman; Samuel Huntington; William Williams; Oliver Wolcott

New-York Declaration: William Floyd; Philip Livingston; Francis Lewis; Lewis Morris; Henry Misner

New-Jersey Declaration: Richard Stockton; John Witherspoon; Francis Hopkinson; John Hart; Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania Declaration: Robert Morris; Benjamin Rush; Benjamin Franklin; John Morton; George Clymer; James Smith; George Taylor; James Wilson; George Ross

Delaware Declaration: Caesar Rodney; George Read; Thomas M'Kean

Maryland Declaration: Samuel Chase; William Paca; Thomas Stone; Charles Carroll

Virginia Declaration: George Wythe; Richard Henry Lee; Thomas Jefferson; Benjamin Harrison; Thomas Nelson, jun.; Francis Lightfoot Lee; Carter Braxton

North Carolina Declaration: William Hooper; Jeseph Hewes; John Penn

South Carolina Declaration: Edward Rutledge; Thomas Heyward; Thomas Lynch; Arthur Middleton

Georgia Declaration: Button Gwinnett; Lyman Hall; George Walton

Sketch of the life of Washington.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in leather with intricate decorative design embossed on front and back covers. Text and decorative design on spine in gold.

OCLC:

872289423