Conventions, _see individual conventions, colonies/States, and appropriate topics_
Conway, Thomas, and Conway Cabal, 60, 95, 125
Corbin, Richard, father-in-law of signer, 42
Cornwallis, Gen. Charles, British officer, 218, 248
Corporations, _see_ Commerce, trade, and manufacturing
Correspondence, committees/councils of, _see_ Committees of correspondence
Cotton planters, _see_ Planters and plantations
Councils, _see particular councils, cities, towns, colonies/States, and appropriate topics_
Councils of correspondence, _see_ Committees of correspondence
Councils of safety, _see_ Committees of safety
Counties and parishes, and committees/councils of correspondence and safety, _see_ Committees of correspondence _and_ Committees of safety; militia of, _see_ Militia; offices in and affairs of, role of signers in, _see specific signers_; send Delegates to Continental Congress, 54, 66, 141. _See also individual colonies/States and counties/parishes._
County Court House, Pa., _see_ Congress Hall
Courts, _see_ Legal practice, legal education, and jurisprudence
Criteria of eligibility of sites and buildings for National Historic Landmark status, 161, 270–271
Crown, British, _see_ Colonies; Great Britain
Currency and money, and Continental Congress, _see under_ Continental Congress; British problems with, 3; Continental, 31, 49, 69; signers raise to further Revolutionary cause, 31, 49; speculation in, _see_ Speculators and speculation; status of signers regarding, _see_ Wealth and financial status of signers; theory on, 130. _See also_ Banks and banking.
Customs laws, collection, and officials, British and American, 3, 4, 6, 34, 37, 52, 68, 82, 101
Dana, Richard Henry, Sr., grandson of signer, 52
Daughters of signers, _see particular signers_
Daughters of the American Revolution, 160, 176, 192, 224, 227
“Dean’s House,” N.J., _see_ President’s House
Deaths of signers: age at, compared, 28–29; earliest, 62, 98, 109, 199; latest, 35, 43; on anniversary of adoption of Declaration, 35, 90. _See also specific signers._
Debts and economic reversals of signers, 36–37, 46, 63–64, 69, 73, 78, 89–90, 107–108, 112, 132, 146, 148, 196, 213
“Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress Assembled” (A), _see_ Declaration of Independence
