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Fradin, Dennis B.

The signers : the fifty-six stories behind the Declaration of Independence / - New York : Walker, 2002. - x, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-158) and index.

Massachusetts: Samuel Adams -- John Hancock -- John Adams -- Robert Treat Paine -- Elbridge Gerry -- Virginia: Richard Henry Lee -- Francis Lightfoot Lee -- George Wythe -- Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas Nelson -- Carter Braxton -- Benjamin Harrison -- Pennsylvania: Benjamin Franklin -- Robert Morris -- Benjamin Rush -- George Clymer -- James Wilson -- John Morton -- George Ross -- George Taylor -- James Smith -- New Jersey: Richard Stockton -- Francis Hopkinson -- John Witherspoon -- John Hart -- Abraham Clark -- Delaware: Thomas McKean -- Caesar Rodney -- George Read -- Rhode Island: William Ellery -- Stephen Hopkins -- Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott -- Samuel Huntington -- William Williams -- Roger Sherman -- New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett -- William Whipple -- Matthew Thornton -- Maryland: Samuel Chase -- William Paca -- Thomas Stone -- Charles Carroll of Carrollton -- North Carolina: William Hooper -- John Penn -- Joseph Hewes -- South Carolina: Edward Rutledge -- Thomas Lynch, Jr.-- Thomas Heyward Jr.-- Arthur Middleton -- Georgia: Lyman Hall -- Button Gwinnett -- George Walton -- New York: Lewis Morris -- Philip Livingston -- Francis Lewis -- William Floyd -- Declaration of Independence.

Profiles each of the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence, giving historical information about the colonies they represented. Includes the text of the Declaration and its history.

ISBN: 0802788491 9780802788498 0802788505 9780802788504

Source: 1151464 QBI

LCCN: 2002066364

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Declaration of Independence --Signers--Biography--Juvenile literature.
United States. Declaration of Independence --Signers.
United States. Declaration of independence --Juvenile literature.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Statesmen--United States--Biography.
Statesmen--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Statesmen.
Statesmen--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
United States, Declaration of Independence-Signers-Biography--Statesmen.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography--Juvenile literature.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States--History--1775-1783, Revolution--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Juvenile materials.

LC Class. No.: E221 / .F83 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 973.3/13/0922