U.S. Founders and Presidents: Primary Sources: Declaration Signers

This is not a complete list of all who signed the Declaration of Independence, but only those for whom collections of writings were found at SHSU or online.

The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution, at Google Books

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, at the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress

Letters of the Members of the Continental Congress, at Google Books

Roll Calls of the Continental Congresses and the Congresses of the Confederation, 1777-1789, in the ICPSR database (SHSU users only)

Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, at the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress - also in the Library, at JK1033 .L47 vol. 1-26

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, at the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress 

The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence - E203 .A579 2001

Library:

• The writings of Samuel Adams - E302.A31 1968 vol. 1-4 (1764-1802)
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Online:

• The writings of Samuel Adams (vol. 1-4) at Project Gutenberg
• Warren-Adams letters, being chiefly a correspondence between John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren, at Google Books

Library:

• Maryland and the Empire, 1773: the Antilon-First Citizen letters (by Daniel Dunlany and Charles Carroll) - F184.D825 1974
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Online:

• Unpublished letters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and his father, at Google Books
• Correspondence of First Citizen—Charles Carroll of Carrollton—and Antilon—Daniel Dunlany Jr. 1773, at Google Books
• Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton during his visit to Canada in 1776 as one of the commissioners from Congress, at Google Books

Library:

• Trial of Samuel Chase, an associate justice of the Supreme Court…impeached by the House of Representatives - KF8782.C5S6 vol. 1-2
• Essays on the Constitution of the United States, published during its discussion by the people, 1787-1788 (includes Chases’ “letter of Caution”) - JK171.F72
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Online:

• Essays on the Constitution of the United States published during its discussion by the people 1787-1788, at Google Books
• The answer and pleas of Samuel Chase…to the articles of impeachment exhibited against him, at Google Books

Library:

• The papers of Benjamin Franklin - E 302 .F82 vol. 1-39
• Early American views on Negro slavery, from the letters and papers of the founders of the Republic (Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Franklin) - E446.M47 1969
• The works of Benjamin Franklin, including the private as well as the official and scientific correspondence - E302.F825 1904 vol. 1-12
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Online:

• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin at the Library of Congress
• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin at Yale University
• The writings of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 6 (1773-1776), vol. 10 (1789-1790), at Google Books
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, at Google Books
• Selection from the writings of Benjamin Franklin, at Google Books
• Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin, at Google Books

Library:

• A study in dissent: the Warren-Gerry correspondence, 1776-1792 - E203.W26
• Essays on the Constitution of the United States, published during its discussion by the people, 1787-1788 (includes Gerry’s “replies to A Landholder”) - JK171.F72
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Online:

• Essays on the Constitution of the United States published during its discussion by the people 1787-1788, at Google Books

Library:

• Comical spirit of seventy-six: the humor of Francis Hopkinson - PS775.C6 1976
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Library:

• The letters of Richard Henry Lee - E302.L472 vol. 1-2
• Empire and nation: Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, John Dickinson; Letters from the Federal farmer, Richard Henry Lee - E215.5.E4
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Online:

• Life and correspondence of George Read, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, at Google Books

Library:

• Letters to and from Caesar Rodney, 1756-1784 - E207.R6A4 1970
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Library:

• The selected writings of Benjamin Rush - AC7.R88
• Letters - R154.R9A4 vol. 1-2
• Reform of criminal law in Pennsylvania; selected enquiries, 1787-1819 - HV8694.R43
• A plan for the punishment of crime; two essays - HV8671.R82
• An inquiry into the effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind - RC565.R8 1823 (Thomason Room)
• Two essays on the mind - R128.7.R94 1972
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Online:

• Essays, literary, moral, and philosophical, at Google Books
• Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind, fifth edition, at Google Books
• Benjamin Rush’s Lectures on the mind, at Google Books

Library:

• Essays on the Constitution of the United States, published during its discussion by the people, 1787-1788 (includes Sherman’s “letters of A Countryman”) - JK171.F72
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Online:

• Essays on the Constitution of the United States published during its discussion by the people 1787-1788, at Google Books

Library:

• Essays on the Constitution of the United States, published during its discussion by the people, 1787-1788 (includes Williams’ “letter to A Landholder”) - JK171.F72
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Online:

• Essays on the Constitution of the United States published during its discussion by the people 1787-1788, at Google Books

Library:

• Selected political essays of James Wilson - JK171.W73
• The works of James Wilson, …1790-1792 - JK171.W6 1896 vol. 1-2
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Online:

• Collected works of James Wilson, vol. 1-2, at The Online Library of Liberty

Library:

• The selected writings of John Witherspoon - E302.W47 A25 1990
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