Button Gwinnett

go.

Button Gwinnett was born in England.

Okay.

Francis Lewis, Wales.

We already discussed them.

Um, Button Gwinnett of Georgia was born in Gloucestershire, England.

Um, Francis Lewis was born in Wales.

Robert Morris in Liverpool, as we mentioned.

Button.

Button Gwinnett.

Button Gwinnett.

They called him the unbuttoner.

My name is Button.

Did he do anything in the Constitutional Convention that shows up as like, and it was Button Gwinnett's.

Everybody get a pinwheel.

He was a flasher.

On July 2, 1776, the document was sent to Congress for consideration and debate.

two days later on july fourth seventeen seventy six congress unanimously adopted the declaration of independence of the fifty-six signers of the declaration of independence eight were foreign born These included Button Gwinnett, England, Francis Lewis, Wales, Robert Morris, England, James Smith, Ireland, George Taylor, Ireland, Matthew Thornton, Ireland, James Wilson, Scotland, and John Witherspoon, Scotland.

The Declaration of Independence Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless indian savages whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages sexes and conditions in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury a prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people nor have we been wanting in attentions to our british brethren we have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us we have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kinship to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence they too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity we must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind enemies in war in peace friends we therefore the representatives of the united states of america in general congress assembled appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions do in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states that they are absolved from all allegiance to the british crown and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved, and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Signed by Order and in Behalf of the Congress John Hancock, President Attested Charles Thompson, Secretary Signers of the Declaration of Independence Georgia Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton, North Carolina, William Hooper, Joseph Hughes, John Penn, South Carolina, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Hayward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Massachusetts, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Payne, Elbridge Gary, John Hancock, Maryland Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia George white Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Pennsylvania.

Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Martin, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross.