 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 118 ページ
...world as the immortal five who drafted the Declaration of Independence, namely : Thomas Jefi'erson, 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 of... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 108 ページ
...world as the immortal five who drafted the Declaration of Independence, namely : Thomas Jeflerson, 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 of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1872 - 304 ページ
...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... | |
 | General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York - 1909 - 822 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Charles Lanman - 1876 - 692 ページ
...and 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,... | |
 | Sylvester W. Burley - 1876 - 900 ページ
...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 had... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - 1876 - 714 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
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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,... 
