...and Gates. It appears from his letters that he returned to Connecticut shortly after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers, and it is probable that the statue was transported there at his instance, immediately after its destruction....

...introduced the resolution declaring the independence of the colonies, and on the 4th of July he reported the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers. He was four times returned a delegate to Congress from Virginia. After the expiration of his term of service...

...June, 1776, he was appointed by Congress, on the committee with Thomas Jefferson and others, to prepare the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers. On the 14th September, 1778, Congress elected him Minister to France ; being the first regular appointment...

...June, 1776, he was appointed by Congress, on the committee with Thomas Jefferson and others, to prepare the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers. On the 14th September, 1778, Congress elected him Minister to France ; being the first regular appointment...

...the Colonies and Canada, and, on his return, labored successfully to change the sentiment of Md., eo as to authorize him to vote, as he did, for the Declaration...large sum of money intrusted to the Bank of Eng., 8650,000 of w'hich was subsequently paid over to the State. In 1788, he was a member of the convention...

...whose secrets he was divulging to the enemy ; was in 1776, with Franklin and Carroll, acommissioner to form a plan of union between the Colonies and Canada,...was subsequently paid over to the State. In 1788, be was a member of the convention to consider the Constitution of the US, which he did not regard as...

...of the gov-. ernor's council of safety; and, in 1776, a member of the committee appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers. LXVII. WILLIAM TELL. James Sheridan Knowles (b. 1784, d. 1862), a dramatist and actor, was born in...

...in 1757, on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly in its dispute with the proprietaries; his share in the Declaration of Independence — of -which he was one of the signers — and his residence in France as Embassador of the United Colonies, belong to the political history...

...by Richard Henry Lee. declaring the independence of the American colonies, and on 4 July he reported the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers. On his return from congress he became a member ' of the Virginia house of delegates under the new constitution,...

...in 1757, on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly in its dispute with the proprietaries; his share in the Declaration of Independence — of which he was one of the signers — and his residence in France as embassador of the United Colonies, belong to the political history...