We mutually pledge to each
other our lives, our fortunes
and our sacred honor.

 

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Signers Restoration and Recognition Project

Since 2004, the Society has implemented a project to honor the Signers of the Declaration by placing a plaque at the grave of each Signer to honor their memory and their great deed of signing the Declaration of Independence.  The plaques are placed when permission is granted from the cemeteries involved.   A bronze plaque engraved with the Signers name is permanently install at the grave site.

As of October 2010 the following Signers have been honored:

Josiah Bartlett	Universalist Church, Kingston, NH, Plague at his Homestead owned by DSDI Member Ruth Albert
Carter Braxton	Chericoke, DSDI Plaque at Family Family Estate owned by Alice Siegel, Richmond
Samuel Chase	Old St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
George Clymer	Friends Meeting House, Trenton, NJ
William Ellery	Common Ground Cemetery, Newport, RI
Benjamin Franklin	Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
John Hart	Old Baptist Meeting House, Hopewell, NJ
Joseph Hewes	Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
Thomas Heyward, Jr.	St. Luke's Chruch, Jasper County, SC
William Hooper	Guilford Courthouse NMP, NC
Stephen Hopkins	Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
Samuel Huntington	Old Norwitchtown Cemetery, New London , CT.
Francis Lightfoot Lee	Tayloe Family Estate, Warsahw, VA
Francis Lewis	Trinity Chruchyard, Manhattan, NY
Philip Livingston	Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, PA
Thomas McKean	Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
Lewis Morris	The Cryt, St. Anne's Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, NY
Robert Morris	Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
John Morton	Old St. Paul's Cemetery, Chester, PA
John Penn	Guilford Courthouse NMP, NC
Caesar Rodney	Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Dover, DE
George Ross	Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
Edward Rutledge	St. Philip's Church, Charleston, SC
Benjamin Rush	Christ Church, Philadelphia. PA
Roger Sherman	Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
James Wilson	Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA
John Witherspoon	Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
Oliver Wolcott	East Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
George Wythe	St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA