 | United States - 1859 - 710 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 Jefferson, to whom the right of drafting it belonged, as... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Mexico - 1859 - 446 pages
...subject was postponed to the first of July. iwhatcom- 15. *Fn the mean time a committee, — consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, — was ingtructed to prepare a declaration in accordance with cw the object of the resolution. 'This... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 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... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 pages
...members, consisting f Lord Mahon: vol. vi, p. 144. AD 1776.] HISTORY OF AMERICA. [THE DECLARATION. of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R Livingston, was appointed to prepare a declaration in accordance with the spirit of the resolution ; Jefferson,... | |
 | Charles Lanman - United States - 1864 - 556 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 Jefferson, to whom the right of drafting it belonged, as... | |
 | 1864 - 876 pages
...Great Britain at an end. A committee to draft a declaration of independence was appointed, consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. The Declaration was reported on the 28th inst., and taken up for final action July' 1st; and on the... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - United States - 1865 - 580 pages
...On the committee of confederation Mr. Samuel Adams was appointed. 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, but had attended his duty in the house... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - Biography - 1867 - 1030 pages
...from the words of Mr. Jefferson, passed. The committee who 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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - United States - 1867 - 464 pages
...the^'subject was postponed to the first of July. 15. 6In the mean time a committee, — consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, — was ingtructed to prepare a declaration in accordance with the object of the resolution. 'This... | |
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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,... 
