Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, represented this state at the Constitutional Convention in 1787
... Button Gwinnett was the second signer of the Declaration to die as 
the result... [DOC] [TLE] A Biography of Roger Sherman (1721-1793) < Biographies ... [PAR] In 1723, when Sherman was 2 years of age, his family relocated from his Newton, 
... drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, as 
well ...