Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams charge Thomas Jefferson with the task of writing a statement announcing the new country's emancipation from British rule.
John Adams
Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Martha Jefferson
John Dickinson (PA)
Edward Rutledge (SC)
Congressional President John Hancock (MA)
Richard Henry Lee (VA)
James Wilson (PA)
Abigail Adams
Caesar Rodney (DE)
Stephen Hopkins (RI)
Col. Thomas McKean (DE)
Courier
Charles Thomson
Andrew McNair
Rev. John Witherspoon (NJ)
Lewis Morris (NY)
Oliver Wolcott (CT)
Robert Livingston
Dr. Josiah Bartlett (NH)
Roger Sherman (CT)
George Read (DE)
Joseph Hewes (NC)
Samuel Chase (MD)
