9.BOBBY LIVINGSTON: Button Gwinnett is one of two signers of the Declaration of Independence that were born in England and moved to the United Sta—or moved to the colonies.
10.Deafblind people communicate through tactile signing also known as hand-over-hand signing, so the deafblind person holds onto the back of the hand of the signer and receives the signs into their palm directly.
11.Four presidents of Harvard are among its graduates, along with four governors of Massachusetts and four of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, including John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
12.Eight had been signers of the Declaration of Independence: Read of Delaware, Sherman of Connecticut, Wythe of Virginia, Gerry of Massachusetts, Franklin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, and James Wilson of Pennsylvania.
13.Harrison, a son of a Virginia signer of the Declaration of Independence, sprang into public view by winning a battle more famous than important, " Tippecanoe" —a brush with the Indians in Indiana.
14.Just to confuse you, then, there are two Benjamin Harrisons in our story today: William Henry Harrison's grandson, our 23rd president, and William Henry Harrison's father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.