USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -John’s Parish sent Lyman Hall. A year later he joined fellow Georgians Button Gwinnett and George Walton in signing the Declaration of Independence.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, three men represented Georgia and signed on her behalf: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall and George Walton.

Detailed explanation-3: -Georgia’s two signers of the United States Constitution, Abraham Baldwin and William Few, are the last names on that document as the geographic order by states on the Constitution has signatures reversed (north to south, left to right) from those on the Declaration of Independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -On that holiday in 1848, the marble Signers’ Monument was dedicated to the memory of George Walton, Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett-Georgia’s three signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Detailed explanation-5: -John Adams on the Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence. George Walton did not arrive at the Continental Congress until late June of 1776, taking his seat on July 1, just in time for the vote to adopt a declaration of independence. At age twenty-six, he was the youngest signer of the famous document.