 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1913 - 956 páginas
...1770, it was voted that the committee for preparing the declaration consist of five members, namely, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. Jefferson at once set to work to draft, not the resolution declaring and effecting independency, for... | |
 | Everett Titsworth Tomlinson - 1901 - 544 páginas
...nevertheless appointed to prepare a declaration, and the following men were named as members of it : Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingstone of New York. Naturally we would suppose that the name of Richard Henry Lee, who had introduced... | |
 | Edward Schwinn, William Wesley Stevenson - 1901 - 412 páginas
...with its adoption were liable to be hanged for treason by England. A committee, however, consisting of Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert Livingstone of New York, was appointed on June 11 to write a declaration containing the thought of... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1904 - 582 páginas
...which influence Congress to take so radical a step. The committee chosen for this purpose consisted of Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, John Adams, of Massachusetts,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston, of New York. On June 12th, a committee, consisting of one representative from each colony, was elected to report... | |
 | Charles William August Veditz, Bartlett Burleigh James - 1904 - 614 páginas
...which influence Congress to take so radical a step. The committee chosen for this purpose consisted of Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, John Adams, of Massachusetts,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston, of New York. On June 12th, a committee, consisting of one representative from each colony, was elected to report... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald - 1905 - 692 páginas
...attend the sick-bed of his wife. His associate, Thomas Jefferson, was named in his place, together with John Adams, of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin, of...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston, of New York. This provided for the Declaration ; and on the appointed day, July 1, 1776, Congress proceeded to the... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald - 1905 - 704 páginas
...attend the sick-bed of his wife. His associate, Thomas Jefferson, was named in his place, together with John Adams, of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin, of...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston, of New York. This provided for the Declaration ; and on the appointed day, July 1, 1776, Congress proceeded to the... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry, Mrs. Blanche Swett Mowry - 1906 - 492 páginas
...Independence, and the other to prepare Articles of Confederation. The committee on the Declaration consisted of Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,...Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. The document was drawn up by Jefferson, and revised with merely a few changes by Adams and Franklin.... | |
 | John William Davis - 1908 - 146 páginas
...made up of the following members : Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia : John Adams, of Massachusetts Bay; Benjamin Franklin, of Pennsylvania ; Roger Sherman,...Connecticut ; and Robert R. Livingston, of New York. Thomas Jefferson was made a sub-committee to draw up a declaration. He submitted his draft to the committee,... | |
 | Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar - 1910 - 556 páginas
...articles of union or confederation. The committee to prepare the Declaration of Independence consisted of Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia; John Adams, of Massachusetts;...Connecticut; and Robert R. Livingston, of New York. They reported, June 28th, a draft of such a declaration. This paper was submitted to Congress, and... | |
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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. 
