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all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

The foregoing declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed and signed by the following members :—

John Adams,

Samuel Adams,

Josiah Bartlett,

Carter Braxton,

Charles Carroll, of Car'lton,

Samuel Chase,

Abraham Clark,

George Clymer,

William Ellery,

William Floyd,

Benjamin Franklin,

Elbridge Gerry,

Button Gwinnet,

Lyman Hall,

John Hancock,

Benjamin Harrison,

John Hart,

Thomas Heyward, jr.,

Joseph Hewes,

William Hooper,

Stephen Hopkins,

Francis Hopkinson,

Samuel Huntington,

Thomas Jefferson,

Francis Lightfoot Lee,

Richard Henry Lee,

Francis Lewis,

Philip Livingston,

Thomas Lynch, jr.

Thomas M‘Kean,

Arthur Middleton,

Lewis Morris,

Robert Morris,

John Morton,

Thomas Nelson, jr.,

William Paca,

Robert Treat Paine,

John Penn,

George Read,

Cæsar Rodney,

George Ross,

Benjamin Rush, M.D.,

Edward Rutledge,

Roger Sherman,

James Smith,

Richard Stockton,

Thomas Stone,

George Taylor,

Matthew Thornton,

George Walton,

William Whipple,

William Williams,

James Wilson,

John Witherspoon,

Oliver Wolcott,

George Wythe.