 | Charles Francis Adams - 1871 - 538 strani
...the two great corollaries of the main proposition were taken up and adopted. At the same time that Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, all but the last named being of the movement, were appointed the committee to prepare a declaration,... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - 1872 - 902 strani
...July, and a committee appointed to prepare a Declaration of Independence. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Meanwhile, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New Jersey instructed their delegates to vote for the great... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1872 - 304 strani
...meetings in the State House, Philadelphia, and John Hancock was president. 17. Five great Patriots, named Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, had written a long paper, giving reasons why the Americans ought to be free ; and this, with the words... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 194 strani
...the annals of the world as the immortal five who drafted the Declaration of Independence, namely : Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. It is remarkable that the signers of the compact made no allusion to parliament, the law-making power... | |
 | General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York - 1909 - 822 strani
...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 - 1874 - 448 strani
...this 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... | |
 | 1875 - 398 strani
...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 because... | |
 | Charles Lanman - 1876 - 692 strani
...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,... | |
 | Sylvester W. Burley - 1876 - 900 strani
...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... | |
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This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. 
