 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - 1871 - 454 páginas
...generations. To secure this object, on the nth of June, 1776, Congress appointed a committee, consisting of THOMAS JEFFERSON, of Virginia ; JOHN ADAMS, of Massachusetts...Connecticut ; and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, of New- York, to prepare the necessary declaration. This was drafted by Mr. JEFFERSON, and presented on the 28th... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 páginas
...declaration in conformity to it." On the next day a committee was chosen for this purpose by ballot : Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. On the 12th, a committee of one from each colony was chosen to report the form of a confederation,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 530 páginas
...draft a declaration according to the spirit of Mr. Lee'a resolution. 6. This committee, consisting of Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, John Adams, of Massachusetts,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston, of New York, reported a DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, which, on the 4th of July, was adopted, and ordered to be handsomely... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1873 - 524 páginas
...declaration according to the tenor of the declare- resolution. Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston, of New York, constituting the committee, united upon a draught by Jefferson. "Whether I had gathered my ideas,"... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1874 - 534 páginas
...colleague, Thomas Jefferson, was accordingly made chairman of the committee. The other members were John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of...Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York. The special work of preparing the paper was allotted to Jefferson and Adams; the latter deferred to... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1874 - 412 páginas
...meanwhile that a committee be appointed to draft a declaration of independence. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and RR Livingston of New York. ' The postponement was immediately followed by proceedings in the colonies,... | |
 | Edward Abbott - 1875 - 96 páginas
...committee to draft a more formal declaration in accordance with their tenor. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. The declaration prepared by this committee was written mostly by Jefferson. 1776. The Declaration of... | |
 | Edward Abbott - 1875 - 104 páginas
...committee to draft a more formal declaration in accordance with their tenor. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. The declaration prepared by this committee was written mostly by Jefferson. 1776. The Declaration of... | |
 | 1870 - 684 páginas
...of the first said resolution." President Hancock next day announced this committee to be composed of Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York. The next day a committee was appointed, Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire chairman, " to prepare and... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 424 páginas
...appointed to draw up a declaration of independence to be used, if necessary. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. The Declaration was written by Thomas Jefferson ; though a very few verbal changes were made by Adams... | |
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Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. 
