Elected to represent the New Hampshire Colony at the Continental Congress, he was the second person to sign the Declaration of Independence, after John Hancock. ... John Morton (1724-1777) ...

John Morton is now largely remembered as the first of the signers to die, passing away in 1777 at the age of 51. The descendant of Finnish immigrants, Morton was born in Pennsylvania in 1725.

At a meeting of patriotic societies held in Philadelphia on Independence Day, special attention was called to the condition ...

Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the […] ...