Eight of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were born outside British North America:

Button Gwinnett (GA) - Gloucestershire, Great Britain

James Wilson (PA) - Carskerdo, Scotland

George Taylor (PA) - Ireland (Town unknown)

James Smith (PA) - Ulster, Ireland

Robert Morris (PA) - Liverpool, Great Britain

Matthew Thornton (NH) - Limerick, Ireland

Francis Lewis (NY) - Llandaff, Wales

John Witherspoon (NJ) - Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland