SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
3 items:
1. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM. 1731-1811. Autograph Document Signed ("Wm. Williams"), as member of the State Committee of Connecticut, ordering the gates to the New London County Turnpike to be shut and tolls collected from travelers, 1 p, folio (320 x 197 mm), Lebanon, CT, July 4, 1805, also signed by David Trumbull, fold creases, browning.
2. ---. Autograph Note Signed ("W. Williams"), regarding the printing of a list of officers, 1 p, oblong 8vo (155 x 195 mm), n.p., January 15, 1776, traces of red wax seal in left margin, stains to right margin, browning.
3. MCKEAN, THOMAS. 1734-1817. Autograph Letter Signed ("Tho. M:Kean"), to Samuel Ward of Rhode Island, regarding shipment of flour and oak staves for troops of the Continental Army, 1 p bifolium, 4to (250 x 185 mm), November 28, 1775, longhand mathematical notations on reverse, fold creases, browning.
WITH: MONROE, JAMES. 1758-1831; and JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 1767-1848. Partial Document Signed, top portion trimmed away, 1 p, June 3, 1823, partially printed and accomplished in ink on vellum, with paper seal, fold creases, trimmed.

William Williams and Thomas McKean were members of the Continental Congress who both signed the Declaration of Independence. Williams was from Connecticut, where he served in the state legislature. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1776, too late to vote for independence. McKean had been Clerk of the Assembly of Delaware, and was a Delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in 1775. After being President of Congress, he attended the convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787.