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Definition of Roger sherman
1. Noun. American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution (1721-1793).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roger Sherman
Literary usage of Roger sherman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autobiography of Seventy Years by George Frisbie Hoar (1905)
"roger sherman AND HIS FAMILY share in the public events that led to the ...
Thomas Jefferson said of him: "There is old roger sherman, who never said a ..."
2. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851)
"roger sherman TO JOHN' ADAMS. I. NEW YORK, 20 July, 1789. SIR,— I was Honored
with your letters of the seventeenth and eighteenth instant, ..."
3. Autobiography of Seventy Years by George Frisbie Hoar (1903)
"CHAPTER II roger sherman AND HIS FAMILY MY mother, who died in 1866, at the age
of eighty-three, was the daughter of roger sherman of Connecticut. ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, William Abbatt (1885)
"roger sherman was six years older than Johnson, and in many respects the most
... No one cer- roger sherman. tainly had had so broad an experience in ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1907)
"THE ALMANACS OF roger sherman 1750-1761. ... roger sherman was born in Newton,
Mass., on April 19, 1721 (OS). When he was two years of age his parents ..."
6. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1885)
"roger sherman was six years older than Johnson, and in many respects the most
... roger sherman. tainly had had so broad an experience in legislation. ..."
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