Puzzlement:
Signers of the Declaration of Independence

by Laurie Williams Sowby

The last names of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence can be found running frontwards, backwards, up, down, and diagonally in this puzzle. See how many you can find without looking at the list first; then check the list and find them all.

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Representatives of the 13 colonies who put their signatures on the document that led to the Revolutionary War were—

Button Gwinnett	Charles Carroll	George Taylor
Lyman Hall	George Wythe	James Wilson
George Walton	Richard Henry Lee	George Ross
William Hooper	Thomas Jefferson	Caesar Rodney
Joseph Hawes	Benjamin Harrison	George Read
John Penn	Thomas Nelson, Jr.	Thomas M’Kean
Edward Rutledge	Francis Lightfoot Lee	William Floyd
Thomas Heyward, Jr.	Carter Braxton	Philip Livingston
Thomas Lynch, Jr.	Robert Morris	Francis Lewis
Arthur Middleton	Benjamin Rush	Lewis Morris
John Hancock	Benjamin Franklin	Richard Stockton
Samuel Chase	John Morton	John Witherspoon
William Paca	George Clymer	Francis Hopkinson
Thomas Stone	James Smith	John Hart
Abraham Clark	Robert Treat Paine	Roger Sherman
Josiah Bartlett	Elbridge Gerry	Samuel Huntington
William Whipple	Stephen Hopkins	William Williams
Samuel Adams	William Ellery	Oliver Wolcott
John Adams		Matthew Thornton