Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence ... Congress on July 1, 1776, both northern and southern ...

The conflict continued, and on June 11, 1776, Congress resolved to form a committee to draft a declaration of independence. Members of the drafting committee included Jefferson, John Adams of ...

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Over the course of many months, the Founding Fathers would work on the Declaration of Independence until it was officially ...

Guelzo: But as the conflict wore on through 1775 and 1776, resistance to the idea of independence ... John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson to compose a declaration to frame Lee's resolution.

(The Conversation) – Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence ... large in the first draft, written by Thomas Jefferson. In that early draft ...

How old were the Founding Fathers when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776? Some were older, like Thomas Jefferson who was 33, John Hancock who was 39, or Benjamin Franklin who was 70.

Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Wikimedia Commons under public domain and the Jefferson ... Declaration of Independence was off to the press, so Thomas Jefferson spent July 4, 1776 ...

But it also examines the famous Thomas Jefferson-penned Declaration of Independence ... The 1776 declaration (which, it should be noted, had Jefferson write the first draft, but had a finished ...

A copy of the Declaration of Independence known as the July 1776 Essex Broadside will go on ... First sold at Sotheby’s in 1967 as part of Thomas W. Streeter’s legendary Americana collection ...

Thomas Jefferson was a ... widow Martha Wayles Skelton. In 1776, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress, he composed the Declaration of Independence, which exposed a ...

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby ... The Declaration, Thomas Jefferson later wrote, was intended as “an expression of the American mind ...