Personages

Bowler, Metcalf (1726-1789)

Rhode Island delegate to the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
Rhode Island supreme court justice (1768-77)
Paid informant of the British army

Carroll, Daniel (1730-1796)

Plantation owner from Maryland
Served in the Confederation Congress
Signed the Articles of Confederation
Maryland delegate to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787
Signed the Constitution
U.S. Representative in the first Congress
Brother-in-law Notley Young and nephew Daniel Carroll (of Duddington)

Carroll, Daniel (of Duddington)

Nephew of Daniel Carroll (Constitution signer)
One of the landowners whose land was acquired by the government to create the District of Columbia and the National Mall
US Capitol was built on a wooded hill that he owned

Hart, John (1713-1779)

New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress
Signed the Declaration of Independence

Morton, John (1725-1777)

Pennsylvania delegate to the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress (1774-5)
Signed the Declaration of Independence (1776)

Revere, Paul (1734-1818)

Boston silversmith and engraver
Sons of Liberty member
April 1775 "midnight ride" alerting the approach of the British

Wolcott, Oliver Jr. (1760-1833)

Connecticut Comptroller of Accounts (1788-9)
Connecticut Auditor (1789-91)
Comptroller of the United States (1791-5)
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1795-1800)
Governor of Connecticut (1817-27)

Declaration of Independence signatures

factsheet signers

Constitution signatures