Happy 4th of July (early) · 12:52am Jul 4th, 2012
Hello everypony-
To all of my friends and followers who live in the United States, have a happy Fourth of July. Remember to take time tomorow to remember what the holiday is really about. It wasn't a day to cook burgers (if they were invesnted at teh time), or visit relatives. The origional day was barely joyous enough to light off fireworks.
On July Fourth of the year 1776, delegates met on Philidelphia, which was the capitol of the colonies at the time, to sign a document drafted only two days earlier. This document would found a new nation of unied colonies, which now called themselves states. By signing the document, the signers also put their lives in jeopardy. The punishment for treason against Great Britain was death, which made this an extreme case of.
On that day the colonies of the new world, united as one body, declared their independence from a foreign power, writing that, 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.
Signers of the Decleration of Independence:
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
