Who printed the first Declaration of Independence broadside to list the signers’ names?

Mary Katharine Goddard printed the first Declaration of Independence broadside to list the signers’ names.

Goddard was a Baltimore publisher, printer, bookseller, and postmaster. In January 1777, the Second Continental Congress commissioned her to produce a new broadside of the Declaration for distribution.

Her Goddard broadside was the first printed version to include the names of the delegates who had signed the Declaration. Earlier Dunlap broadsides identified John Hancock and Charles Thomson but did not provide the full list of signers.

Goddard printed her full name at the bottom of the broadside, making her contribution unusually visible for an eighteenth-century woman printer. The document helped the public learn who had committed themselves to the revolutionary declaration, although some signatures had been added after the document’s adoption.