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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Declaration of Independence . (search)
Declaration of Independence.
It was very important to have Lee's resolution for independence, offered June 7, 1776, prefaced by a preamble that should clearly declare the causes which impelled the representatives of the people to adopt it. To avoid loss of time, a committee was appointed (June 11) to prepare such declaration.
The committee was composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Mr. Lee having been called home before the appointment of the committee, Mr. Jefferson was put in his place.
He was requested by the committee, after discussing the topics, to make a draft of a declaration of independence.
It was discussed in committee, amended very slightly, and finally reported.
Debates upon it were long and animated.
There was some opposition to voting for independence at all, and it was considerably amended.
It was evident from the beginning that a majority of the colonies would vote for independence (the vote in Co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White , Daniel Appleton 1776 -1861 (search)
White, Daniel Appleton 1776-1861
Jurist; born in Methuen (now Lawrence), Mass., June 7, 1776; graduated at Harvard College in 1797; admitted to the bar in 1804; member of the legislature of Massachusetts in 1810-15; and was judge of probate of Essex county, Mass., for thirty-eight years. He was the author of Eulogy on George Washington; View of the Court of probate in Massachusetts; New England Congregationalism in its origin and purity, etc. He died in Salem, Mass., March 30, 1861.