: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton,George Clymer,James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

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: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,

: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

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

which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.

which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf

Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act

to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country,