[THOMPSON, spoken]
The count, being twelve to none, with one abstention, the resolution on independence is adopted

[ADAMS, spoken]
It's done. It's done

[HANCOCK, spoken]
Mr. Thompson, is the Declaration ready to be signed?

[THOMPSON, spoken]
It is

[HANCOCK, spoken]
Then I suggest we do so

[?, spoken]
Very well, gentlemen

McNair!

[HANCOCK, spoken]
Go ring the bell

[?, spoken]
Stephen, sit down
[HOPKINS, spoken]
No, I want to remember each man's face as he signs

[HANCOCK, spoken]
Very well. Mr. Thompson?

[THOMPSON, spoken]
New Hampshire: Dr. Josiah Bartlett
Massachusetts: Mr. John Adams
[The Liberty Bell rings out and continues between each name.]
Rhode Island: Mr. Stephen Hopkins
Connecticut: Mr. Roger Sherman
New York: Mr. Lewis Morris
New Jersey: The Reverend Jonathan Witherspoon
Pennsylvania: Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Delaware: Mr. Caesar Rodney
Mary-land: Mr. Samuel Chase
Virginia: Mr. Thomas Jefferson
North Carolina: Mr. Joseph Hewes
South Carolina: Mr. Edward Rutledge
Georgia: Dr. Lyman Hall