| 1818 - 498 pages
...by Col. Trumbull. This splendid painting represents the Congress at the moment ivhen the Commiltee, THOMAS JEFFERSON, JOHN ADAMS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ROGER SHERMAN, and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, advance to the table of President HANCOCK, to make their report, which contained the Declaration of... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 520 pages
...doubt owing to this circumstance, that he was not a member of the committee appointed to draw up the Declaration of Independence. This committee consisted...John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and R. R. Livingston. The circumstances attending the preparation of this immortal state paper, by the... | |
| Presidents - 1825 - 460 pages
...few days afterwards it was resolved that a committee, ou this momentous subject, should be appointed. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John...Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Other committees were also appointed to prepare and digest a form of confederation, to be entered into... | |
| 1826 - 518 pages
...doubt owing to this circumstance, that he was not a member of the committee appointed to draw up the Declaration of Independence. This committee consisted...Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, iuid R. R. Livingston. The circumstances attending the preparation of this immortal state paper, by... | |
| Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 pages
...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, ROGER SHERMAN, and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. It is usual, when committees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged, in order, according... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...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, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. It is usual, when committees are elected by ballot that their members are arranged, in order, according... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...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, ROGER SHERMAN, and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON." It is usual when committees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged in order, according... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829 - 644 pages
...provisional draught of a declaration of independence. The members of it were chosen by ballot, and were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Mr. Jefferson and Mr. A. were deputed a sub-committee to prepare the instrument, the former of whom,... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...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, ROGER SHERMAN, and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. It is usual, when committees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged, in order, according... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 366 pages
...DECLARATION to the eifect of the resolution. This committee was elected by ballot on the following day, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin...Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. It is usual, when committees are elected by ballot, that their numbers are arranged in order according... | |
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