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Experience the Life
: Politics
: Virginia's Famous Signers
| " . . . we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our
Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
In the crucial decade before the American Revolution, Williamsburg was a training
ground for a remarkable body of men. When it became clear that war with
Great Britain could not be avoided, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas
Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Francis Lightfoot Lee, and
Carter Braxton met in Philadelphia with representatives from other colonies
to declare independence from the mother country. On July 4, 1776, the
Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence
and took the first momentous step toward establishing a new nation. |
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George Washington did not sign the Declaration of Independence because in July
1776 he was in New York preparing to defend Manhattan against the British.
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Historic Triangle