Signers Honor Roll

We honor the following signers for their military service. Information is from the signers’ biographies published on the DSDI website unless otherwise noted.

Josiah Bartlett, Lieutenant Commander of the 7th Militia Regiment

George Clymer, Captain of the “Silk Stockings Brigade”

William Floyd, Colonel Weston Reg Sulfolk Co Smithtown then Major General

Benjamin Franklin, Commander in French and Indian Wars

Button Gwinnett, Brigadier General in the Continental Army

Lyman Hall, Military service

Benjamin Harrison, Lieutenant of County Militia

Thomas Heyward, Jr., Militia Officer (source NPS.gov)

William Hooper, Served in Militia

Thomas Jefferson, Commander and Chief of Virginia Militia

Richard Henry Lee, Colonel in Westmoreland Militia

Thomas Lynch Jr., Captain commission

Thomas McKean, Colonel in Militia

Arthur Middleton, Militia Officer (source NPS.gov)

Lewis Morris, Brigadier General New York Militia Westchester County

Thomas Nelson, Jr., Commanding General Lower Virginia Militia

Robert Treat Paine, Chaplain at Lake George in French and Indian Wars 1795

Caesar Rodney, Commanded troops at George Washington’s request

George Ross, Colonel in Continental Army

Dr. Benjamin Rush, Surgeon General of Continental Army

Edward Rutledge, Captain of Militia Officer (source NPS.gov)

James Smith, Brigadier General of Pennsylvania Militia

George Taylor, Captain of Militia group in 1747 and commissioned as a Colonel in 3rd Battalion of Militia

George Walton, Militia Officer (source NPS.gov)

William Whipple, Brigadier General of New Hampshire Militia

William Williams, Colonel of Connecticut Militia

Oliver Wolcott, Brigadier General and Major General of Connecticut Militia