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Matthew Thornton (
1714 –
June 24,
1803), was a signer of the
United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of
New Hampshire.
He was born in
Ireland: his family immigrated to
America when he was three years old, settling first at
Wiscasset, Maine, and removing shortly thereafter to
Worcester, Massachusetts. Thornton became a physician and was appointed surgeon to the
New Hampshire Militia troops in the expedition against
Fortress Louisbourg. He had royal commissions as justice of the peace and colonel of militia. He became Londonderry Town Selectman, a representative to, and President of the Provincial Assembly, and a member of the
Committee of Safety, drafting New Hampshire's plan of government after dissolution of the royal government, which was the first state constitution adopted after the start of hostilities with England.
He was first President of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives and Associate Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. He was elected to the
Continental Congress after the debates on independence had occurred, arriving just in time to actually sign the Declaration of Independence.
He became a political essayist. He retired from his medical practice and in
1780 moved to
Merrimack, New Hampshire where he farmed and operated a ferry with his family. He died in
Newburyport, Massachusetts, while visiting his daughter. Matthew Thornton is buried in Thornton Cemetery in
Merrimack, New Hampshire and his grave reads "An Honest Man." The town of
Thornton, New Hampshire is named in his honor, and a
Londonderry, New Hampshire elementary school as well.
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