Please help Your pack horses are rubbed down and ready and your oxen team in place. Your belongings are packed. Your food rations carefully secured. Many of the parties in your wagon train are already lined up and ready to move out. But you still have to get one more vital item: your drinking water! Will you top off your kegs from the drinking water available here at Independence Camp? Or wait until you get to the next stop this evening?

Benjamin Franklin

Explanation:

Stephen Hopkins was 69 years old at the time of the signing of the Declaration; he was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Still, he was not the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin was a year older than Stephen Hopkins; thus, at the age of 70, Franklin became the oldest person to sign the Declaration of Independence.