IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, JULY 4, 1776. The following list of members of the continental Congress, who signed the Declaration 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, Gwinnet, Button. England, Hall, Lyman Hancock, John Harrison, Benjamin Heyward, Thomas, jr. Hopkinson, Francis Huntington, Samuel Morton, John Read, George Rush, Benjamin, M. D. Stone, Thomas Taylor, George Walton, George Whipple, William Williams, William Wilson, James Witherspoon, John Wythe, George Wolcott, Oliver Conn., 17 June, 1742 North Carolina, 7 Mar. 1707 R. I. & Prov. Pl. 13 Apr. 1743 Virginia, 14 Oct. 1734 Virginia, 20 Jan. 1732 Virginia, Stratford, in Mar. 1713 New York, 15 Jan. 1716 New York, St. George's, S. C., 5 Aug. 1749 South Carolina, in 1726 New York, Lancashire, Eng., Jan. 1733-'4 Pennsylvania, Ridley, Penn., Dover, Delaware, in 1724 Pennsylvania, in in 1734 Delaware, in 1730 Delaware, in 1730 Pennsylvania, Byberry, Peun., 24 Dec. 1745 Pennsylvania, Charleston, S. C., in Nov. 1749 South Carolina, Newton, Mass., Ireland, 19 Apr. 1721 Connecticut, 4 July, 1826 19 May, 1795 2 Oct., 1803 10 Oct, 1797 14 Nov., 1832 19 June, 1811 Sept., 1794 15 Feb., 1820 23 Jan., 1813 4 Aug., 1821 17 April, 1790 23 Nov., 1814 27 May, 1777 Feb., 1790 8 Oct., 1793 April, 1791 1780 Mar., 1809 10 Nov., 1779 Oct., 1790 13 July, 1785 9 May. 1790 5 Jan., 1796) 4 July, 1826 April, 1797 19 June, 1794 30 Dec., 1803 12 June, 1778 lost at sea 1779 24 June, 1817 1 Jan., 1787 22 Jan., 1798 8 May, 1806 April, 1777 4 Jan., 1789 1799 11 May, 1804 26 Oct., 1809 1 Oct. 1730 New Jersey, 28 Feb., 1781 in 1742 Maryland, in in 1716 Pennsylvania, in 1730 New Hampshire, Yester, Scotland, Elizabeth city co., Va., 1726 Virginia, 11 July, 1806 5 Oct., 1787 23 Feb, 1781 24 June, 1803 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. 1817, '21 VERMONT.-1791. Cushman, Samuel. Dinsmoor, Samuel. Durell, Daniel M... Eastman, Ira A.... Eastman, Nehemiah. Ellis, Caleb.............. Farrington, James.. Foster, Abiel.... Freeman, Jonathan. Hale, Salma.... Hale, William.. Hale, John P.. .1835, 39 Senators. .1825, $27 Chase, Dudley..... .1805, '07 Chipman, Nathaniel. 1801, '13 S 1813, '17 .1837, 39 Crafts, Samuel C.. 1842, '43 1795, 1803 1817, '18 Paine, Elijah.. 1795, 1801 1797, 1801 Palmer, William A.. 1818, '25 1807, 209 Phelps, Samuel S.... 1839, 51 1789, 97 Prentiss, Samuel.. 1817, 19 Haven, Nathaniel A. 1809, '11 Allen, Heman.... 1827, 28 Healy, Joseph........... 1825, '29 1833, '39 Hough, David.. Hubbard, Henry. Hunt, Samuel. 1802, '05 Buck, Daniel... .1795, 97 |