Is there a list of Harvard graduates who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Massachusetts:

John Adams

Samuel Adams

John Hancock

Elbridge Gerry

Robert Treat Paine

 

Connecticut:

William Williams

 

Rhode Island:

William Ellery

 

North Carolina:

William Hooper

     

Source: Morison, Samuel Eliot. Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, p.136 [note]

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