 | 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... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - 1876 - 714 strani
...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... | |
 | Jerome Bonaparte Washington - 1876 - 970 strani
...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.... | |
 | John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 strani
...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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 strani
...be 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1877 - 894 strani
...these colonies are of right and ought to be, free and independent states." This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. As the declaration was presented by this committee in its original form, it contained among other charges... | |
 | 1877 - 972 strani
...Declaration of Independence. This Committee, elected by ballot, stood in the following order : — Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. To him was assigned the drafting of the Declaration — and of his work, Daniel Webster, in his Funeral... | |
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This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. 
