 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...prepare a declaration, " that these colonies are. and of right ought to be, free and independent states." This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John...Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. The resolution of independence was adopted on the 2d day of July ; and on the 4th, congress adopted... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - Connectictut - 1855 - 714 pages
...a dissenting vote, promulgating these sentiments to the world, the Committee of Congress, composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, were engaged in preparing the form of the Declaration of Independence, to which, on the 4th of July,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1855 - 714 pages
...adviser and great supporter of the declaration of independence. It was reported by a committee composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. During the same year, he, with Doctor Franklin and Edward Rutledge, was deputed to treat with Lord... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1855 - 336 pages
...did Lee introduce, and when ? Who were appointed a committee 1 adopted, and a committee, consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston, appointed to draw up a declaration of independence. <. 9. The question was resumed on the 1st of July,... | |
 | William Henry Seward - Legislators - 1856 - 418 pages
...a committee, on the motion of Richard Henry Lee, seconded by John Adams, to prepare a Declaration. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John...Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Jefferson and Adams were a sub-committee, and the former prepared the Declaration, at the urgent request of the... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...provisional draft 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. »*r^on and Mr. A. were deputed a sub-committee to prepare the instruit, the former of whom, at... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - Connecticut - 1857 - 788 pages
...a dissenting vote, promulgating these sentiments to the world, the Committee of Congress, composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, were engaged in preparing the form of the Declaration of Independence, to which, on the 4th of July,... | |
 | J. B. Shurtleff - United States - 1857 - 210 pages
...were appointed by congress as early as the llth of June, to prepare a Declaration of Independence. The committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and RR Livingston. It was proposed that each member should draft a paper according to his own feelings... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and RR Livingston ; and to Mr. Jefferson, the chairman, was assigned the important duty of preparing the... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - Connecticut - 1858 - 808 pages
...dissenting vote, promulgating these •sentiments to the world, the Committee of Congress, composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, were engaged in preparing the form of the Declaration of Independence, to which, on the 4th of July,... | |
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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,... 
