 | 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
...afterwards it was 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
...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,...when committees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged, in order, according to the number of votes which each has received. Mr. Jefferson,... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...was voted, that, a committee be appointed to prepare a DECLARATION, to the effect of the resoution. This committee was elected by ballot, on the following day, and consisted of THOMAS JEFFERSON, JOHN ADAM*, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ROGER SHERMAN, and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. It is usual when committees are... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...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,...when committees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged, in order, according to the number of votes which each has received, Mr. Jefferson,... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...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,...Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Preparatory to the introduction of that important measure, a committee, at the head of which was Mr.... | |
 | James Trecothick Austin - Statesmen - 1828 - 828 pages
...monumental column for the whole assembly. The committee to make the draught were chosen by ballot, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and RR Livingston. It is an obvious enquiry why Mr. Lee, the mover of the resolution, was not on the committee... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...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...when committees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged in order, according to the number of votes which each has received. Mr. Jefferson,... | |
 | 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
...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,...when committees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged, in order, according to the number of votes which each has received. Mr. Jefferson,... | |
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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,... 
