Button Gwinnett (Georgia), Francis Lewis (New York), Robert Morris (Pennsylvania), James Smith (Pennsylvania), George Taylor (Pennsylvania), Matthew Thornton (New Hampshire), James Wilson (Pennsylvania), and John Witherspoon (New Jersey). All signers of the Declaration of Independence. But they were different than the other forty-eight men who signed off on the document that created the United States of America. How?
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They were all born in the British Isles vice North America?
Close but no cigar.
In the British Isles, but not in England itself?
I know that Wilson was Scottish, so maybe they are all Scotts?
Is it they are left handed or widowed and not born on America soil?
Just not born on American soil — or rather, soil that would become the United States after they helped create this nation 235 years ago. Some were originally English, some Scots, some Welsh. All became Americans.
Likko, yr a great questionizer.
are you sure they’re not all left or right handed?
President(s) who signed the U.S. Constitution?
Who was the Dalai Lama in 1776?
Jamphel Gyatso.