 | 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
...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, 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 - 544 pages
...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, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. It is usual, when committees are elected by ballot, that their members are arranged, in order, according... | |
 | James Trecothick Austin - Biography & Autobiography - 1828 - 550 pages
...which forms a monumental column for the whole assembly. The committee to make the draught were chojsen 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
...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, 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
...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, 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 - 600 pages
...one of a committee appointed to prepare the declaration of independence. The committee were apoointed by ballot, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John...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... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 366 pages
...DECLARATION to the 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... | |
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This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. 
