 | 1818 - 498 pages
...by Col. Trumbull. This splendid painting represents the Congress at the moment ivhen the Commiltee, THOMAS JEFFERSON, JOHN ADAMS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ROGER SHERMAN, and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, advance to the table of President HANCOCK, to make their report, which contained the Declaration of... | |
 | Presidents - 1825 - 476 pages
...resolved that a committee, on this momentous subject, should be appointed. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Other committees were also appointed to prepare and digest a form of confederation, to be entered into... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Eulogies - 1826 - 74 pages
...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... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829 - 644 pages
...provisional draught 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. Jefferson and Mr. A. were deputed a sub-committee to prepare the instrument, the former of whom,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 366 pages
...eifect 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... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 608 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. 
