Signer of the Declaration of Independence, born at Londonderry, PA, on the 19th of March 1734. In 1765 he was elected to the Stamp Act Congress; from 1774 to 1783 was member of the Continental Congress. He was chief justice of Pennsylvania (1777–99), and from 1799 to 1808 governor of Pennsylvania. Although a resident of Pennsylvania, he was president of Delaware in 1777, and drafted the constitution of that state, it is said, in a single night and with no book of reference. He died in Philadelphia on the 24th of June 1817.
