Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is indicated by _underscores_, boldface text by =equals signs=. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND OF WASHINGTON AND PATRICK HENRY. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE Constitution of the United States AND OTHER DOCUMENTS. _BY L. CARROLL JUDSON_, A MEMBER OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR. “The proper study of mankind is man.” PHILADELPHIA: J. DOBSON, AND THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & CO. 1839. Entered according to the Act of Congress, A. D. 1839, by TIMOTHY CALDWELL, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. E. G. DORSEY, PRINTER, LIBRARY STREET. CONTENTS. PAGE. Declaration of Independence, 9 Thomas Jefferson, 13 John Hancock, 25 Benjamin Franklin, 30 Roger Sherman, 38 Edward Rutledge, 45 Thomas M’Kean, 49 Philip Livingston, 55 George Wythe, 58 Abraham Clark, 61 Francis Lewis, 64 Richard Stockton, 66 Samuel Adams, 70 Dr. Benjamin Rush, 78 Oliver Wolcott, 83 George Read, 85 Thomas Heyward, 88 Robert Morris, 92 John Witherspoon, 97 Thomas Lynch, Jr. 102 Matthew Thornton, 105 William Floyd, 108 William Whipple, 112 Francis Hopkinson, Esq. 115 Josiah Bartlett, 117 Arthur Middleton, 122 James Wilson, 126 Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, 132 William Williams, 136 Samuel Huntington, 139