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Stockton was the first person from New Jersey to sign the Declaration of Independence. Stockton was sent by Congress, along with fellow signer George Clymer, on an exhausting two-month journey to Fort Ticonderoga in New York to assist the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.
25 de fev. de 2020 · Richard Stockton was an American politician who did not like politics. He was a delegate to the continental congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and even a prisoner of war: a man who truly gave all he had for the Revolution.
23 de abr. de 2021 · In June 1776, Stockton was elected to the Second Continental Congress. Stockton and Witherspoon were elected to the Congress to replace two other members after New Jersey learned that the delegates were against independence.
13 de set. de 2012 · Follow the life of Richard Stockton, delegate to the Continental Congress and one of 56 signers, who bravely proclaimed the original thirteen colonies would break away from British rule to...
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4 de jul. de 2016 · Richard Stockton, a New Jersey lawyer, is known as the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence and later recant his signature. Imprisoned by the British for adding his name to the...
Lesson Plan. Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Short biographies on each of the 56 Declaration signers. Richard Stockton. 1730-1781. Representing New Jersey at the Continental Congress. by Ole Erekson, Engraver, c1876, Library of Congress. Richard Stockton was born near Princeton, on October 1, 1730.
Thomson had been unanimously chosen as Secretary of the First Continental Congress on September 5, 1774. When the Second Continental Congress convened on May 10, 1775, Thomson was once again chosen as its Secretary.
