#56Americans July 4

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Taking a day off from posting on the 30-Day Ingredient Coach4aday Challenge. Choosing to repost something about 56 AMERICANS who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Every 4th of July I remind myself of the leaders who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Those leaders risked their lives by signing a document that has led to freedoms we have today. Today as a country we are still grappling with issues of freedom. What they set out to do has not been perfected yet.

Back in 2014 I was curious about who signed the Declaration of Independence and researched the names on that document. Of course, I had some idea about John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. What I wasn’t sure of us was how many names were on the document and who were those people. That led me to discovering there were 56 signers of the Declaration.

New Jersey, South Carolina, and North Carolina

I have lived in three states New Jersey, South Carolina, and North Carolina. I wanted to know more detail about the signers from those states.

The 56 men who signed the DECLARATION did it thru a process. Eight of the 56 were from Britain and Ireland. As I read the bios of each signee, I realized that none of them was perfect, yet each had redeeming qualities and compelling life stories.

I highly recommend you read the bios of the 56 leaders who set are country on a path to freedom.

The names of the signers from NJ, NC, and SC with a hyperlink to their bio are found below.

New Jersey included:
Abraham Clark, Francis Hopkinson, John Witherspoon, John Hart, and Richard Stockton

North Carolina included:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn

South Carolina included:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Lynch Jr, Arthur Middleton, and Thomas Heyward Jr

Our country has evolved because 56 leaders took a risk. If there was a common ingredient for today’s challenge it would be courage.

Happy 4th of July!