 | Charles Lanman - United States - 1876 - 692 pages
...Adams was questioned as to how it was that so many Southern men should have participated in the war, he replied that if it had not been for such men as...Jefferson, Samuel Chase, and Thomas Johnson, there would never have been any Revolution. He died on his estate near Frederick City, which had been his... | |
 | Frederick J. Brown, Herbert Baxter Adams, Samuel Alexander Harrison, Sebastian Ferris Streeter - Maryland - 1877 - 136 pages
...how it was that so many Southern men took part in the Revolution, and he replied, that, if it hadn't been for such men as Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson,...Johnson, there never would have been any Revolution. See Lanman's Biographical Annals, "Thomas Johnson." 2 This letter to Thomas Johnson of Maryland is... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 678 pages
...why so many southern men occupied leading positions and possessed great influence in the Revolution, he replied that, " if it had not been for such men...Johnson, there never would have been any revolution." He married, on the 16th of February, 1766, Ann Jennings, the only daughter of Thomas Jennings, of Annapolis,... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 688 pages
...GOVERNOR'S INAUGURATION. 287 in the Revolution, he replied that, "if it had not been for such men us Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Chase...Johnson, there never would have been any revolution." He married, on the 16th of February, 1766, Ann Jennings, the only daughter of Thomas Jennings, of Annapolis,... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Maryland - 1885 - 116 pages
...declined. John Adams was once asked how it was that so many Southern men took part in the Revolution, and he replied, that, if it had not been for such men...Johnson, there never would have been any Revolution. See Lanman's Biographical Annals, "Thomas Johnson." * This letter to Thomas Johnson of Maryland is... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Maryland - 1885 - 126 pages
...declined. John Adams was once asked how it was that so many Southern men took part in the Revolution, and he replied, that, if It had not been for such men...Johnson, there never would have been any Revolution. See Lanman's Biographical Annals, " Thomas Johnson." 1 This letter to Thomas Johnson of Maryland is... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1885 - 606 pages
...declined. John Adams was once asked how it was that so many Southern men took part in the Revolution, and he replied, that, if it had not been for such men as Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jeflerson, Samuel Chase, and Thomas Johnson, there never would have been any Revolution. See Lamnan's... | |
 | Charles Lanman - United States - 1887 - 760 pages
...Adams was questioned as to how it was that so many Southern men should have participated in the war, he replied that if it had not been for such men as...Jefferson, Samuel Chase, and Thomas Johnson, there would never have been any Revolution. He died on his estate near Frederick City, which liad been his... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - Judges - 1892 - 472 pages
...questioned as to how it was that so many Southern men participated in the war, replied that had it not been for such men as Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Chase, and Thomas Johnson there would never have been any revolution. Johnson was regularly confirmed on the 7th of November, 1791,... | |
 | Lyman Pierson Powell - Cities and towns - 1900 - 656 pages
...he loved so well. His best eulogy was the few words spoken by John Adams in which he said that " but for such men as Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Chase and Thomas Johnson there would have been no Revolution." After the peace the town grew steadily in wealth, comfort and luxury.... | |
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States from 1791-93, and, when, Jefferson left the Cabinet, was invited by Washington to become Secretary of State, but declined. John Adams was once asked how it was that so many Southern men took part in the Revolution, and he replied, that, if it had... 
