The magazine of American history with notes and queries . WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON. •This Magazine published in November, 1884 [XII. 395], a portrait of Rufus King. f The Connecticut Delegation : William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth. THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 337 friendly terms with Dr. Samuel Johnson, and the privileged guest in thecultured circle of which that literary colossus was the acknowledged his return to Connecticut he was made judge of the Superior Court,and subsequently was the leading commissioner in adjusting the territorialdisputes with Pennsylvan
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON. •This Magazine published in November, 1884 [XII. 395], a portrait of Rufus King. f The Connecticut Delegation : William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth. THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 337 friendly terms with Dr. Samuel Johnson, and the privileged guest in thecultured circle of which that literary colossus was the acknowledged his return to Connecticut he was made judge of the Superior Court,and subsequently was the leading commissioner in adjusting the territorialdisputes with Pennsylvania. He also served in the Old Congress from1784 to 1787. Roger Sherman was six years older than Johnson, and inmany respects the most remarkable man in the Convention. No one cer-. ROGER SHERMAN. tainly had had so broad an experience in legislation. He was sent to thefirst Continental Congress in 1774, and to every other Congress to the endof his life. He was the only Northern statesman, as George Read was theonly Southern statesman, who signed all three of the great state paperswhich gave birth and power to a mighty empire; Sherman did more, forhe signed in addition the Articles of Confederation—which he helped toconstruct; he was the only American statesman who attached his nameto the four important documents. The son of a New England farmer, 338 THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION Sherman was bred to industry, hardly ever knowing an idle hour. Hestudied law under many difficulties; but few excelled him in acumen andsound judgment, as soon as he had once established himself in the language of Mr. Bancroft, The country people among whom helived gave him every possible sign of their confidence. The church madehim its deacon ; Yale College its treasurer
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