 Samuel Adams, the night before the declaration, was signed by the delegates. Now, it was voted on the 2nd of July. It was signed on the 4th by John Hancock as president of the Continental Congress, which is why it was legalized on that day. That's why we celebrated that. But the rest of the men began to come back into the city to sign it at their leisure. A number of them, the signing beginning on the morning of August 2nd.