This page will help you trace your ancestry to the signers. It will also provide you with information on each of their lives. The books, eBooks and articles listed below are just a sampling of what our library has available to assist with your research.
The 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence are (in alphabetical order):
John Adams (MA)
Samuel Adams (MA)
Josiah Bartlett (NH)
Carter Braxton (VA)
Charles Carroll of Carrollton (MD)
Samuel Chase (MD)
Abraham Clark (NJ)
George Clymer (PA)
William Ellery (RI)
William Floyd (NY)
Benjamin Franklin (PA)
Elbridge Gerry (MA)
Button Gwinnett (GA)
Lyman Hall (GA)
John Hancock (MA, President)
Benjamin Harrison (VA)
John Hart (NJ)
Joseph Hewes (NC)
Thomas Heyward, Jr. (SC)
William Hooper (NC)
Stephen Hopkins (RI)
Francis Hopkinson (NJ)
Samuel Huntington (CT)
Thomas Jefferson (VA)
Francis Lightfoot Lee (VA)
Richard Henry Lee (VA)
Francis Lewis (NY)
Philip Livingston (NY)
Thomas Lynch, Jr. (SC)
Thomas McKean (DE)
Arthur Middleton (SC)
Lewis Morris (NY)
Robert Morris (PA)
John Morton (PA)
Thomas Nelson, Jr. (VA)
William Paca (MD)
Robert Treat Paine (MA)
John Penn (NC)
George Read (DE)
Caesar Rodney (DE)
George Ross (PA)
Benjamin Rush (PA)
Edward Rutledge (SC)
Roger Sherman (CT)
James Smith (PA)
Richard Stockton (NJ)
Thomas Stone (MD)
George Taylor (PA)
Matthew Thornton (NH)
George Walton (GA)
William Whipple (NH)
William Williams (CT)
James Wilson (PA)
John Witherspoon (NJ)
Oliver Wolcott (CT)
George Wythe (VA)
There are many websites where you can gain access to free online ebooks on the lives of the signers. Below are a few suggestions:
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New York Public Library Digital Research Books Beta
Benjamin Franklin's Family: Volume I: English Ancestors by 
First Thoughts: life and letters of Abigail Adams by 
Honorable Treason: The Declaration of Independence and the Men Who Signed It by 
Wives of the Signer's by 
Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence by 
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution by North Carolina's Signers: Brief Sketches of the Men who Signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution by
O'Brien, Steven G. "Benjamin Rush." American History, ABC-CLIO, 2020, americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
O'Brien, Steven G. "Samuel Chase." American History, ABC-CLIO, 2020, americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
"Philip Livingston." American History, ABC-CLIO, 2020, americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
Sowards, Adam M. "George Clymer." American History, ABC-CLIO, 2020, americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
Sowards, Adam M. "Thomas Stone." American History, ABC-CLIO, 2020, americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
Sowards, Adam M. "William Paca." American History, ABC-CLIO, 2020, americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
