Continental Congress Signing Declaration Of Independence. But they didn t do so on the fourth of july. The second continental congress and the declaration of independence.
On august 2 1776 a parchment paper copy of the declaration was signed by 56 persons. The declaration was transposed on paper adopted by the continental congress and signed by john hancock president of the congress on july 4 1776 according to the 1911 record of events by the u s. John hart is a little known signer of the declaration of independence.
On july 19 congress ordered that an official copy of the document be created.
It was just a month after shots had been fired at lexington and concord in massachusetts and the congress was preparing for war. The second continental congress met inside independence hall beginning in may 1775. The 56 delegates to the second continental congress represented the 13 former colonies which had declared themselves the united states of america and they endorsed the declaration of independence which the congress had approved on july 4 1776. But they didn t do so on the fourth of july.
