 | Charles Lanman - United States - 1868 - 648 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 draughtIng it belonged,... | |
 | 1868 - 646 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 It. Livingston. The Declaration was exclusively the work of Jefferson, to whom the right of draughting... | |
 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - History - 1869 - 358 pages
...a declaration in accordance with a resolution offered June 7th, by Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston formed the Committee. The Declaration of Independence was drawn up by Jefferson, assisted by the others... | |
 | Charles Henry Stanley Davis - Cheshire (Conn.) - 1870 - 1040 pages
...without 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,... | |
 | Robert Henlopen Labberton - History - 1870 - 268 pages
...Virginia, moved that " these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent statet." Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed a committee to draft n Declaration of Independence. Jefferson, as chairman, prepared... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - United States - 1871 - 366 pages
...Long Island (Aug. 27). — The British army landed on the southwest shore of Long Island. General Put* Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, composed this committee. ) t During the day the streets of Philadelphia were crowded with people anxious... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1871 - 538 pages
...the two great corollaries of the main proposition were taken up and adopted. At the same time that Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, all but the last named being of the movement, were appointed the committee to prepare a declaration,... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - Indians of North America - 1872 - 902 pages
...it. The resolution was finally postponed to the 1st day of July, and a committee appointed to prepare a Declaration of Independence. This committee consisted...Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Meanwhile, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New Jersey instructed their delegates to vote for the great... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1872 - 304 pages
...meetings in the State House, Philadelphia, and John Hancock was president. 17. Five great Patriots, named Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, had written a long paper, giving reasons why the Americans ought to be free ; and this, with the words... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - African Americans - 1872 - 194 pages
...the annals of the world as the immortal five who drafted the Declaration of Independence, namely : Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. It is remarkable that the signers of the compact made no allusion to parliament, the law-making power... | |
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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,... 
