. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . ^^/Jl; tc-uTG-n. SIGNATiniES TO THE DECLAKATION OP INDEPENDENCE. THOMAS JEFFERSON. I 55 1776, and he eagerly availed himself of it. He passed therest of the winter in Virginia, where he exerted himself to raisesupplies for the people of Boston, and in collecting money forthe purchase of powder. In March, 1776, his mother died, atthe age of fifty-five. Early in May he returned to Philadel-phia, and on the 13th of that month resumed his seat in Con-gress. A little later the Virginia delegates received the instructionsof th
. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . ^^/Jl; tc-uTG-n. SIGNATiniES TO THE DECLAKATION OP INDEPENDENCE. THOMAS JEFFERSON. I 55 1776, and he eagerly availed himself of it. He passed therest of the winter in Virginia, where he exerted himself to raisesupplies for the people of Boston, and in collecting money forthe purchase of powder. In March, 1776, his mother died, atthe age of fifty-five. Early in May he returned to Philadel-phia, and on the 13th of that month resumed his seat in Con-gress. A little later the Virginia delegates received the instructionsof that province directing them to move that Congress declarethe Colonies independent of British rule. On the 7th of June,Rfchard Henry Lee offered a resolution in Congress in accord-ance with these instructions, declaring that the United Colo-nies are, and ought to be, free and independent States, andthat their political connection with Great Britain is, and oughtto be, dissolved. The resolution was seconded by JohnAdams, of Massachusetts, which province had instructed herdelegates to take
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