Connecticut: Samuel Huntington | Roger Sherman | William Williams | Oliver Wolcott |. Maryland: Charles Carroll | Samuel Chase | Thomas Stone | William Paca |. read more
The date that the Declaration was signed has long been the subject of debate. Within a decade after the event, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams all wrote that the Declaration was signed by Congress the day it was adopted on July 4, 1776. read more
The Declaration became official when Congress voted for it on July 4; signatures of the delegates were not needed to make it official. The handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence that was signed by Congress is dated July 4, 1776. read more