Signatures

In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in Congress. Done at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania the ninth day of July in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight, and in the Third Year of the independence of America.

On the part and behalf of the State of New Hampshire:

  • Josiah Bartlett
  • John Wentworth Junr.

August 8th 1778

On the part and behalf of The State of Massachusetts Bay:

  • John Hancock
  • Francis Dana
  • Samuel Adams
  • James Lovell
  • Elbridge Gerry
  • Samuel Holten

On the part and behalf of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations:

  • William Ellery
  • John Collins
  • Henry Marchant

On the part and behalf of the State of Connecticut:

  • Roger Sherman
  • Titus Hosmer
  • Samuel Huntington
  • Andrew Adams
  • Oliver Wolcott

On the Part and Behalf of the State of New York:

  • James Duane
  • Wm Duer
  • Francis Lewis
  • Gouv Morris

On the Part and in Behalf of the State of New Jersey, November 26, 1778.

  • John Witherspoon
  • Nathaniel Scudder

On the part and behalf of the State of Pennsylvania:

  • Robt Morris
  • William Clingan
  • Daniel Roberdeau
  • Joseph Reed
  • John Bayard Smith

22nd July 1778

On the part and behalf of the State of Delaware:

  • Tho Mckean February 12, 1779
  • John Dickinson May 5th,1779
  • Nicholas Van Dyke

On the part and behalf of the State of Maryland:

  • John Hanson March 1 1781
  • Daniel Carroll Do

On the Part and Behalf of the State of Virginia:

  • Richard Henry Lee
  • John Harvie
  • John Banister
  • Francis Lightfoot Lee
  • Thomas Adams

On the part and Behalf of the State of North Carolina:

  • John Penn July 21st,1778
  • Corns Harnett
  • John Williams

On the part and behalf of the State of South Carolina:

  • Henry Laurens
  • Richd Hutson
  • William Henry Drayton
  • Thos Heyward Junr
  • John Mathews

On the part and behalf of the State of Georgia:

  • John Walton 24th July 1778
  • Edwd Telfair
  • Edwd Langworthy