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Founders of freedom in America; lives of the men who signed the Declaration of independence and so helped to establish the United States of America Coordinating editor, Thomas C. Jones; editor of prints and photos., Kathrine B. Sanborn
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 221 .W57
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitney, David C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers.
- United States.
- Founding Fathers of the United States.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), map, facsimiles 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, J.G. Ferguson Pub. Co. [1964]
- Contents:
- Political and philosophical origins of the Declaration of Independence / David S. Lovejoy
- Diagram of the Trumbull painting of the Declaration of Independence
- Adopting the Declaration of Independence / David C. Whitney
- Distance to all pointsfrom Philadelphia
- A map of the northern and Middle states, published in 1792
- Vital statistics of the signers
- Declaration of Independence
- Signatures of the signers
- John Adams of Massachusetts
- Samuel Adams of Massachusetts
- Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire
- Carter Braxton of Virginia
- Charles Carroll of Maryland
- Samuel Chase of Maryland
- Abraham Clark of New Jersey
- George Clymer of Pennsylvania
- William Ellery of Rhode Island
- William Floyd of New York
- Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania
- Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts
- Button Gwinnett of Georgia
- Lyman Hall of Georgia
- John Hancock of Massachusetts
- Benjamin Harrison of Virginia
- John Hart of New Jersey
- Joseph Hewes of North Carolina
- Thomas Heyward, Jr. of South Carolina
- William Hooper of North Carolina
- Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island
- Francis Hopkinson of New Jersey
- Samuel Huntington of Connecticut
- Thomas Jefferson of Virginia
- Francis Lightfoot Lee of Virginia
- Richard Henry Lee of Virginia
- Francis Lewis of New York
- Philip Livingston of New York
- Thomas Lunch, Jr. of South Carolina
- Thomas McKean of Delaware
- Arthur Middleton of South Carolina
- Lewis Morris of New York
- Robert Morris of Pennsylvania
- John Morton of Pennsylvania
- Thomas Nelson of Virginia
- William Paca of Maryland
- Robert Treat Paine of Massachusetts
- John Penn of North Carolina
- George Read of Delaware
- Caesar Rodney of Delaware
- George Ross of Delaware
- Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania
- Edward Rutledge of South Carolina
- Roger Sherman of Connecticut
- James Smith of Pennsylvania
- Richard Stockton of New Jersey
- Thomas Stone of Maryland
- George Taylor of Pennsylvania
- Matthew Thornton of New Hampshire
- George Walton of Georgia
- William Whipple of New Hampshire
- William Williams of Connecticut
- James Wilson of Pennsylvania
- John Witherspoon of New Jersey
- Oliver Wolcott of Connecticut
- George Wythe of Virginia
- Patrick Henry of Virginia
- James Otis of Massachusetts.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Whitney, David C. Founders of freedom in America.
- OCLC:
- 602841
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