Three North Carolina delegates to the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence: Joseph Hewes of Edenton, John Penn of Granville County, and William Hooper of Wilmington. (Before ...

Signed by 56 congressional delegates it was, the Declaration of Independence is what set the US on its own path as a country ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Wilmington and North Carolina have a direct connection to the Declaration of Independence which was signed all those years ago in 1776. William Hooper was a local attorney who ...

Signers of Declaration of Independence knew risk loomed. ... Benjamin Harrison, John Hart, Joseph Hewes, Thomas Heyward Jr., William Hooper, Stephen Hopkins, Francis Hopkinson, Samuel Huntington, ...

Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the […] ...