IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, JULY 4, 1776. The following list of members of the continental Congress, who signed the Declara tion of Independence (although the names are included in the general list of that Congress, from 1774 to 1788), is given separately, for the purpose of showing the places and dates of their birth, and the time of their respective deaths, for convenient reference. NAMES OF THE SIGNERS. BORN AT DELEGATED DIED Braintree, Mass., 19 Oct. 1735 Massachusetts, Frederick co., Va., 1 Oct. 1730 New Jersey, in 1742 Maryland, in 1716 Pennsylvania, 23 Feb, 1781 in 1714 New Hampshire, 24 June, 1803 in 1740 Georgia, in 1730 New Hampshire, Yester, Scotland, 2 Feb., 1804 28 Nov, 1785 2 Aug. 1811 28 Aug., 1798 15 Nov., 1794 1 Dec., 1797 8 June, 1806 SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS, From the commencement of the Government under the Constitution, to the end of the Twenty-ninth Congress, March 3d, 1847, with the beginning and termination of their respective periods. [Corrected from the Treasurer's Accounts.] We are indebted to the American Almanac for 1844 for such part of the following list as extends from the first Congress, in 1789, to the end of the twenty-seventh Congress, March 3d, 1843; and have availed ourselves of the permission of the proprietors of that useful work, to copy the same, with corrections and additions for the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth Congresses. |