During and after the Revolutionary War he served as a diplomat in Europe, helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, and served as America’s first ambassador to the Court of St. He served on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and enthusiastically advocated its cause in Congress. Adams was a delegate to both the First and Second Continental Congresses. He was an early convert to the cause for American independence and wrote both political protests and scholarly tracts in defense of American rights. He attended Harvard College, was admitted to the bar, and began practicing law in 1758. John Adams - Massachusetts: "May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof." Those were President John Adams’s thoughts about the presidency and the White House in November 1800. After the war he served both as a state legislator and as an associate justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. He was a brigadier general in the New Hampshire militia and commanded troops both at Saratoga and in a Rhode Island campaign. Whipple was a tough-minded man who believed in a strong military and severe punishment for those loyal to the crown. He served on both the marine and the commerce committees where his previous experience at sea and in business proved of use. He was elected to the Second Continental Congress in 1776.
He became involved with the patriot movement in 1775 when he was elected to represent his town at the provincial congress. A few years later he and his brother, Joseph, established a mercantile business in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. An able seaman, he became a ship’s captain while still in his early twenties. William Whipple - New Hampshire: William Whipple was born in Kittery in present-day Maine in 1730. Matthew Thornton died in 1803 at about age 89. He continued to serve his colony as the first president of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and as a justice to the superior court. In 1775 he drafted a plan of government that became New Hampshire’s first constitution.
He was also active in New Hampshire politics and held royal commissions as justice of the peace and colonel of militia. In 1745 he served as a surgeon in the New Hampshire militia during the British expedition that captured Louisbourg, the French fortress in Nova Scotia. He became a physician and maintained a successful medical practice in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He emigrated with his parents to America when he was about four years old. Thornton was born in Ireland in about 1714. He was granted permission to sign the document even though he arrived at the Second Continental Congress three months after the formal signing on August 2, 1776. Matthew Thornton - New Hampshire: Matthew Thornton was one of the last delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence.
In 1790 Dartmouth College awarded him an honorary medical degree and in 1791 he founded the New Hampshire Medical Society and served as its first president. Although he returned to state service and was elected president, and then governor, of New Hampshire, Bartlett never lost his interest in medicine. He did accept election to the Second Continental Congress and for a time was heavily burdened with committee work as the only member from New Hampshire. In 1775 he was elected to represent New Hampshire in the First Continental Congress but declined to accept the assignment. He earned a reputation as a principled lawmaker and accepted dismissal by the royal governor from some of his committee assignments rather than abandon his opposition to royalist policies. He was also interested in politics and served as an active, energetic member of his colony’s legislature. He became a physician and opened a medical practice in Kingston, New Hampshire in 1750. Bartlett was born in Massachusetts in 1729. New Hampshire delegates voted first because they were from the northernmost colony. Geography dictated the voting order among the delegates to the Second Continental Congress. Josiah Bartlett - New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett was the first delegate to vote for independence and the second signer after John Hancock.
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