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2108. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Committee on.—

The committee
were John Adams, Dr. Franklin,
Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston and
myself. * * *. The committee * * * desired me to do it. [131] It was accordingly
done, and being approved by them, I reported


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it to the House on Friday, the 28th of June,
when it was read, and ordered to lie on the
table.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 17. Ford ed., i, 24.
(1821)

See 2119.

 
[131]

To write the Declaration.—Editor.