<Li> New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark </Li> <Li> Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross </Li> <Li> Delaware: George Read, Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean </Li> <Li> Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton </Li>

Who abstained from voting for the declaration of independence