Roger Sherman : Signer and Statesman / Roger Sherman Boardman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boardman, Roger Sherman, Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793.

Sherman, Roger.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographies

collective biographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1938]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Roger Sherman".

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

I. THE SHERMAN FAMILY

II. THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN 1721

III. YOUTH IN STOUGHTON

IV. EARLY YEARS IN NEW MILFORD

V. THE SHERMAN ALMANACS

VI. LATER YEARS IN NEW MILFORD

VII. SHERMAN IN NEW HAVEN

VIII. STAMP ACT DAYS

IX. FROM STAMP ACT REPEAL TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

X. THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

XI. THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

XII. THE WYOMING CONTROVERSY

XIII. REVOLUTIONARY PROGRESS, PERILS, AND VICTORY

XIV. LEGISLATOR, MAYOR, AND JUDGE

XV. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

XVI. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (continued)

XVII. THE CONSTITUTION RATIFIED

XVIII. IN THE FEDERAL CONGRESS

XIX. THEOLOGY AND RELIGION

XX. "A BRIGHT LUMINARY SETS"

APPENDICES

A. FURTHER DATA ON SHERMAN ALMANACS

B. PROPOSITIONS EMBODYING CHANGES IN THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

C. COMMITTEES ON WHICH SHERMAN SERVED

D. LIST OF LETTERS QUOTED IN THIS VOLUME, WITH LOCATIONS

E. BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-373) and index.

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ISBN:

9781512800395

1512800392

OCLC:

610399978