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v • d • e Declaration of Independence

Forming Committee	Thomas Jefferson • Roger Sherman • Benjamin Franklin • Robert R. Livingston • John Adams	The drafting committee presenting the Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress, painted by John Trumbull 1817–1819.

New Hampshire	Josiah Bartlett • William Whipple • Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts	John Hancock • Samuel Adams • John Adams • Robert Treat Paine • Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island	Stephen Hopkins • William Ellery

Connecticut	Roger Sherman • Samuel Huntington • William Williams • Oliver Wolcott

New York	William Floyd • Philip Livingston • Francis Lewis • Lewis Morris

New Jersey	Richard Stockton • John Witherspoon • Francis Hopkinson • John Hart • Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania	Robert Morris • Benjamin Rush • Benjamin Franklin • John Morton • George Clymer • James Smith • George Taylor • James Wilson • George Ross

Delaware	Caesar Rodney • George Read • Thomas McKean

Maryland	Samuel Chase • William Paca • Thomas Stone • Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia	George Wythe • Richard Henry Lee • Thomas Jefferson • Benjamin Harrison • Thomas Nelson, Jr. • Francis Lightfoot Lee • Carter Braxton

North Carolina	William Hooper • Joseph Hewes • John Penn

South Carolina	Edward Rutledge • Thomas Heyward • Thomas Lynch, Jr. • Arthur Middleton

Georgia	Button Gwinnett • Lyman Hall • George Walton