Trumbull's well-known picture of the committee presenting the Declaration in Congress was made known through A. B. Durand's engraving in 1820. The medals commemorating the event are described in Baker's _Medallic Portraits of Washington_, p. 32. The house in Philadelphia in which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence is shown in Scharf and Westcott's _Philadelphia_ (i. 320); Watson's _Annals of Philadelphia_ (iii.); Brotherhead's _Signers_ (1861, p. 110); _Potter's American Monthly_, vi. 341; Gay's _Pop. Hist. U. S._, iii. 483; Higginson's _Larger Hist. U. S._, 274. The desk on which he wrote it was for a long time in the possession of Mr. Joseph Coolidge of Boston, and at his death passed by his will to the custody of Congress. Randall's _Jefferson_, i. 177; _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, iii. 151.] The resolutions of independency of June 7th, introduced by R. H. Lee, in accordance with instructions from Virginia,[703] are not preserved either in the MS. or printed journals, and John Adams tells us (_Works_, iii. 45) much was purposely kept out of the records; but they have been found in the secretary's files, and are given in fac-simile in Force (4th ser., vi. p. 1700). Of the proceedings and debates which followed we have, beside the printed journals (i. 365, 392), three manuscript journals.[704] For details we must go to the memoranda made by Jefferson from notes taken near the time.[705] There seems no doubt that John Adams was the leading advocate of the Declaration[706] and such traces as are found of other speakers are noted in Bancroft, orig. ed., viii. 349; Wells's _Sam. Adams_, ii. 413, 433; Randall's _Jefferson_, i. 182. Bancroft draws John Adams's character with some vigor (viii. 309). Dickinson made the main speech against Adams. Bancroft abridges it from Dickinson's own report (viii. 452); Ramsay (i. 339) sketched it. (Cf. Niles's _Principles_, 1876, p. 400, and _John Adams's Works_, iii. 54.) Adams thought Dickinson's printed speech very different from the one delivered. Galloway, in his _Examination_ before Parliament, gave only the flying rumors of what passed. The later writers summarize the debates and proceedings.[707] There is some confusion in later days in the memory of participants, by which the decision for independence on July 2d is not kept quite distinct from the formal expression of it on July 4th. (Cf. McKean in _John Adams_, x. 88.) It was the New York, and not the New Jersey, delegates who were not instructed to vote for the Declaration (Wells, i. 226). The position of New York is explained by W. L. Stone in _Harper's Mag._, July, 1883. The instructions from Pennsylvania and Delaware came late.[708] [Illustration: ROGER SHERMAN After a painting owned by a descendant in New Haven. Cf. portrait by Earle in Sanderson's _Signers_ in Brotherhead's _Book of Signers_ (1861), p. 75, will be found a view of his house. He was of the Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence.]