{
    "Georgia": [ "Button Gwinnett", "Lyman Hall", "George Walton" ],
    "North Carolina": [ "William Hooper", "Joseph Hewes", "John Penn" ],
    "South Carolina": [ "Edward Rutledge", "Thomas Heyward, Jr.", "Thomas Lynch, Jr.", "Arthur Middleton" ],
    "Maryland": [ "Samuel Chase", "William Paca", "Thomas Stone", "Charles Carroll, of Carrollton" ], 
    "Virginia": [ "George Wythe", "Richard Henry Lee", "Thomas Jefferson", "Benjamin Harrison", "Thomas Nelson, Jr.", "Francis Lightfoot Lee", "Carter Braxton" ],
    "Pennsylvania": [ "Robert Morris", "Benjamin Rush", "Benjamin Franklin", "John Morton", "George Clymer", "James Smith", "George Taylor", "James Wilson", "George Ross" ],
    "Delaware": [ "Caesar Rodney", "George Read", "Thomas McKean" ],
    "New York": [ "William Floyd", "Philip Livingston", "Francis Lewis", "Lewis Morris" ],
    "New Jersey": [ "Richard Stockton", "John Witherspoon", "Francis Hopkinson", "John Hart", "Abraham Clark" ],
    "New Hampshire": [ "Josiah Bartlett", "William Whipple", "Matthew Thornton" ],
    "Massachusetts Bay": [ "Samuel Adams", "John Adams", "Robert Treat Paine", "Elbridge Gerry" ],
    "Rhode Island and Providence, &c.": [ "Stephen Hopkins", "William Ellery" ],
    "Connecticut": [ "Roger Sherman", "Samuel Huntington", "William Williams", "Oliver Wolcott" ]
}