Show OLD AGE AND Y YOUTH UTH IN FREEDOMS FIGHT signer signers of t the he declaration of independence pen dence represented all classes of the people and were of all agel age HE men who gathered toge together thet T TUB early in july 1776 to consider the question of independence represented many professions and ages agen of t the 66 6 men who constituted all of the signers of the declaration 24 were lawyers 14 agriculturists four physicians one a inin minister tater one manufacturer fac nine merchants and three who had been educated for the minis try but who later followed other professions fes res although at the time of signing the declaration the majority v 1 I of the men raen were between forty and sixty years of age several were vere in the early thirties and two forty seren seven the youngest igner signer wae wait edward rut ledge of north carolina who wae was not dot twenty seven soven until about tour montha months after the signing the other wae was thomas lynch jr who celebrated his seventh birthday three day days after th abo mr lynch was drowned at sea before be was thirty on the other hand benjamin franklin wae vas evenly seventy at the time of signing squally interesting are the age of the men when they died three llred to bo be over ninety it 11 ever sixty it 11 ever over fifty and the remainder with the exception ot of lynch I 1 jived to be over forty four |