 | General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York - 1909 - 822 pages
...resolution. A committee was appointed to draft it. All their names are illustrious in American history : Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. They discussed the various topics to be embraced and called on Jefferson to draw it. He did so and... | |
 | David B. Scott - United States - 1874 - 448 pages
...resolution, a committee was appointed to draw up a declaration of independence. The committee was composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. They presented their draft of the paper on the 28th of June, and on the Fourth of July the Declaration... | |
 | Education - 1875 - 398 pages
...meanwhile, " a declaration in conformity to the resolution on independence." Accordingly, on the next day, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston, were named to compose the committee ; and it " fell to Jefferson to write " the declaration " both... | |
 | Sylvester W. Burley - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 900 pages
...declaration in harmony with the proposed resolutions. This committee, which was appointed June 11, consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin...Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. It was elected by ballot; and as Jefferson represented Virginia, from which colony the proposition... | |
 | Charles Lanman - United States - 1876 - 692 pages
...it was voted that a committee be appointed to prepare one. The committee was elected by ballot, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin...Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. The Declaration was exclu! sively the work of Jefferson, to whom the right of draughting it belonged,... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 714 pages
...appointed to draft a formal Declaration of Independence. This committee was the historical one consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. It reported a draft of the Declaration on the 28th of June, which was ordered to lie on the table until... | |
 | John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 pages
...five were appoiuted to draft a document for the signatures of the members. This Committee, consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingstone, presented the following " Declaration," which was unanimously adopted and signed on the... | |
 | Jerome Bonaparte Washington - United States - 1876 - 970 pages
...severe loss. On the first of July, the Declaration of Independence, prepared by a committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingstone was submitted to the Continental Congress, and on the fourth was ratified by the delegates.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1877 - 894 pages
...prepare a declaration, that these colonies are of right and ought to be, free and independent states." This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John...Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. As the declaration was presented by this committee in its original form, it contained among other charges... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 660 pages
...adopted, a committee was " appointed to prepare a declaration to that effect." The committee was composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Mr. Lee was not appointed on the committee, because he had been compelled to leave Philadelphia for... | |
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July; and at the same time, it was voted that a committee be appointed to prepare a Declaration to the effect of the resolution. This committee was elected by ballot, on the following day, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,... 
