now President of the United States and his Friend was Mr George Wythe then a Member of Congress from Virginia and now Chancellor of that State. The Constitution of New York was formed soon after the Publication of those Thoughts and was framed conformably to the general Spirit of them. This Same...
A proposal approaching this was made by George Wythe on 16 Feb. 1776; see , 4:294). Its report, largely the work of George Wythe, was brought in on 22 May and tabled (same, p. 381–383). For its later history see
3[February 1776] (Adams Papers)
A proposal approaching this was made by George Wythe on 16 Feb. 1776; see , 4:294). Its report, largely the work of George Wythe, was brought in on 22 May and tabled (same, p. 381–383). For its later history see
4[Tuesday August 27. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
Delegates from Virginia produced new Credentials. George Wythe, Thomas Nelson, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, and Francis Lightfoot Lee, Esqrs.
5From John Adams to James Warren, 12 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
, and George Wythe was established (
6John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 September 1775 (Adams Papers)
had more to say about the new delegates: John Joachim Zubly, Archibald Bulloch, and John Houstoun of Georgia; and Thomas Nelson Jr., George Wythe, and Francis Lightfoot Lee of Virginia (
7[In Congress, Spring 1776, and Thomas Paine] (Adams Papers)
speaks here of five versions, but he enumerates only four, and the order of their composition clearly was: that for Hooper, that for Penn, that for George Wythe of Virginia, and that for Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant of New Jersey. The only ...which he assigned the genesis of the whole series of papers to a conversation with George Wythe one evening in “January 1776, six months before the...
8Note Regarding Genesis of Thoughts on Government, 21 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
...and original Power of The People. Great difficulties, occurred to many Gentlemen, in making a Transition from the Old Governments to the new, i.e from the Royal to Republican Governments. In January 1776 Mr George Wythe of Virginia passing an Evening with me, asked what plan I would advise a Colony to pursue, in order to get out of the old Government and into a new one. I Sketched in Words a...
9John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 November 1779 (Adams Papers)
. The printed version, addressed to George Wythe, concludes with a sentiment that both echoes and develops similar ones in
...first, included as the fourth stated instruction, was altered during the debates by the cancellation of most of its original text and its replacement by an amendment (in double parentheses, below) in the hand of George Wythe. The second passage having a bearing on Art. 8 was an amendment, in the hand of Richard Henry Lee, which was not accepted and is printed here immediately after the...