 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 600 pages
...committee appointed to prepare the declaration of independence. The committee were apoointed by ballot, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin...Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Adams, the two first on the committee, were named as a sub-committee to prepare... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 608 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 K. Livingston. It is usual, when committees are elected by ballot, that their numbers are arranged... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1835 - 358 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 numbers are arranged in order according... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - Chronology, Historical - 1835 - 792 pages
...the words of Mr. Jefferson, passed. The committee which had been chosen to prepare it was composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Adams were deputed a sub-committee to prepare the instrument, and the former... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 550 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 comnrtittees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged in order, according... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 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... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 pages
...postponed to the first day of July, and a committee of five were appointed in the mean time to draft a Declaration of .Independence. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Dr. Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Mr. Jefferson, as chairman of the committee,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - United States - 1839 - 304 pages
...On the llih of June, a committee was appointed to prepare a Declaration of Independence, consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Mr. Jetferson was requested to draw up the paper, which he did, and it was reported to the Mter receiving... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1839 - 524 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. LITINGSTON." It is usual when committees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged in... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 554 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... | |
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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,... 
