 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 634 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 should be arranged in order,... | |
 | Edward Rogers - Conduct of life - 1851 - 188 pages
...In what way was it declared 1 What were the names of the committee who reported this Declaration ? Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Who drafted this Declaration? Thomas Jefferson. How many Representatives were in Congress at this time?... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 pages
...to the effect of the resolution. This com10 mittee 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...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 should be arranged in order,... | |
 | Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...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 exclusively the work of Mr. Jefferson, Hi whom the right of drafting it belonged... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 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 should be arranged in order,... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...the subject was postponed till the 1st of July ; but meanwhile, a committee was appointed consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston, to prepare a declaration. A Board of War was established about the same time, John Adams being appointed... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 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... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1854 - 564 pages
...Mr. Adams's autobiography, the following account is given: — " The Committee of Independence were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Mr. Jefferson had been now about a year a member of Congress, hut had attended his duty in the house... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 532 pages
...their constituents in particular, and America in general." A Committee was chosen by ballot to prepare a Declaration of Independence. This Committee consisted...Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. The members are supposed to have been arranged in the foregoing order, according to the number of votes... | |
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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,... 
