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William Hooper and John Penn, delegates from North Carolina to the Continental Congress in 1776 and signers of the Declaration of Independence, were reinterred here in 1894. The grave of Hewes, the third signer, is lost. In 1774, John Adams wrote in his diary, "Lee, Henry and Hooper were the orators of the Congress."
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Greensboro, North Carolina · United States
