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MY RELATIONSHIP TO THE SIGNERS OF THE US DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
  • CONNECTICUT
    Samuel Huntington (1731-1796) - 4th cousin 6 times removed
    Roger Sherman (1721-1793) - 10th cousin 5 times removed
    William Williams (1731-1811) - 4th cousin 5 times removed
    Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797) - 12th cousin 6 times removed

  • DELAWARE
    Thomas McKean (1734-1817)
    George Read (1733-1798) - 4th cousin 7 times removed
    Caesar Rodney (1728-1784) - 10th cousin 5 times removed

  • GEORGIA
    Button Gwinnett (1735-1777) - 9th cousin 6 times removed
    Lyman Hall (1724-1790) - 7th cousin 6 times removed
    George Walton (1741-1804)

  • MARYLAND
    Charles Carroll (1737-1832) - 9th cousin 4 times removed
    Samuel Chase (1741-1811) - ?
    William Paca (1740-1799) - ?
    Thomas Stone (1743-1787)

  • MASSACHUSETTS
    John Adams (1735-1826) - 4th cousin 8 times removed
    Samuel Adams (1722-1803) - 4th cousin 7 times removed
    Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) - ?
    John Hancock (1737-1793) - 9th cousin 6 times removed
    Robert Treat Paine (1730-1814) - ?

  • NEW HAMPSHIRE
    Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795)
    Matthew Thornton (1714-1803)
    William Whipple (1730-1785) - ?

  • NEW JERSEY
    Abraham Clark (1725-1794)- poss
    John Hart (1711-1779) - poss?
    Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) - ?
    Richard Stockton (1730-1781) - ?
    John Witherspoon (1723-1794)- poss

  • NEW YORK
    William Floyd (1734-1821)- 13th cousin 2 times removed
    Francis Lewis (1713-1802) - ?
    Philip Livingston (1716-1778) - 14th cousin 4 times removed
    Lewis Morris (1726-1798) - poss

  • NORTH CAROLINA
    Joseph Hewes (1730-1779) - ?
    William Hooper (1742-1790)
    John Penn (1741-1788)

  • PENNSYLVANIA
    George Clymer (1739-1813)
    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) - ?
    Robert Morris (1734-1806)
    John Morton (1724-1777)- poss
    George Ross (1730-1779)- poss
    Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) - 12th cousin 3 times removed
    James Smith (1719-1806)
    George Taylor (1716-1781)
    James Wilson (1742-1798)- poss

  • RHODE ISLAND
    William Ellery (1727-1820)- ?
    Stephen Hopkins (1707-1785) - 8th cousin 9 times removed

  • SOUTH CAROLINA
    Thomas Heyward Jr. (1746-1809)- ?
    Thomas Lynch Jr. (1749-1779)
    Arthur Middleton (1742-1787)- poss
    Edward Rutledge (1749-1800) - 14th cousin 6 times removed

  • VIRGINIA
    Carter Braxton (1736-1797) - 12th cousin 5 times removed
    Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) - 12th cousin 5 times removed
    Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) - 9th cousin 6 times removed
    Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734-1797) - 6th cousin 8 times removed
    Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) - 6th cousin 8 times removed
    Thomas Nelson Jr. (1738-1789) - 13th cousin 4 times removed
    George Wythe (1726-1806) - 10th cousin 7 times removed