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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newman , Francis 1638 -1660 (search)
Newman, Francis 1638-1660
Statesman; born in England; removed to New Hampshire in 1638; and later settled in New Haven, where he became secretary of Theophilus Eaton, the first governor of Connecticut.
He was with the party sent to New Netherland on a visit to Gov. Peter Stuyvesant in 1653 for the purpose of securing an indemnity for the Dutch encroachments upon New Haven.
In 1654-58 he was a commissioner of the consolidated colonies; and in 1658-60 was governor.
He died in New Haven, Co638-1660
Statesman; born in England; removed to New Hampshire in 1638; and later settled in New Haven, where he became secretary of Theophilus Eaton, the first governor of Connecticut.
He was with the party sent to New Netherland on a visit to Gov. Peter Stuyvesant in 1653 for the purpose of securing an indemnity for the Dutch encroachments upon New Haven.
In 1654-58 he was a commissioner of the consolidated colonies; and in 1658-60 was governor.
He died in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 18, 1660.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), O'Callaghan , Edmund Bailey 1797 - (search)
Portsmouth,
The present county seat of Rockingham county, N. H., with a population (1900) of 9,827; was founded at Strawberry Bank, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, by Mason, who tried to be lord of the manor ; but his people were too independent to allow special privileges to any one.
An Episcopalian named Gibson was the first minister at Portsmouth, for whom a chapel was built in 1638.
He was dismissed by the General Court of Massachusetts, which claimed jurisdiction over that region, and a Puritan minister—James Parker—was put in his pl
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Printing. (search)
Printing.
The first printing in America was done in the city of Mexico, in 1539.
There were then about 200 printing-offices in Europe.
The second press was set up in Lima, Peru, in 1586, and the third was erected in Cambridge, Mass., in 1639.
In 1638 Rev. Jesse Glover started for Massachusetts with his family, having in his care a printing-press given to the colony by some friends in Holland.
He was accompanied by Stephen Day, a practical printer.
Mr. Glover died on the voyage, and, under the direction of the authorities in Boston, Day set up the press at Cambridge, and began printing there in January, 1639.
Its first production was The Freeman's oath, and the first literary work issued by it was a new metrical version of the psalms, a revision of those of Sternhold and Hopkins.
This was the beginning of book-printing in the United States.
It was forty years before another printing-press was set up in this country.
The first printing-press at work west of the Alleghany
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rensselaerwyck, (search)
Rensselaerwyck,
The seat of Patroon Van Rensselaer, in New York, equalled in population in 1638 the rest of the province of New Netherland.
It did not include Fort Orange (Albany), which was under the direct control of the Dutch West Indian Company through the director at Fort Amsterdam.
The government was vested in two commissaries, one of whom acted as president, and two councillors, assisted by a secretary, schout-fiscal, and marshal.
The commissaries and councillors composed a court for the trial of all cases, civil and criminal, from which, however, an appeal lay to the director and council at Fort Amsterdam.
The code was the Roman-Dutch law as administered in Holland.
The population consisted principally of farmers, who emigrated at their own expense, other husbandmen sent out by the patroon to establish and cultivate boweries, or farms, on shares or by rent, and farm-servants indentured for a term of years.
From the very foundation of the Colonie, as it was called,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sedgwick , Robert 1590 -1656 (search)
Sedgwick, Robert 1590-1656
Military officer; born in England in 1590; was one of the first settlers of Charlestown, Mass. (1635); an enterprising merchant, and for many years a deputy in the General Assembly.
Having been a member of an artillery company in London, he was one of the founders of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston, in 1638, and was its captain in 1640: In 1652 he was promoted to the highest military rank in the colony.
In 1643 he was associated with John Winthrop, Jr., in the establishment of the first furnace and iron-works in America.
In 1654, being in England, he was employed by Cromwell to expel the French from the Penobscot; and was engaged in the expedition of the English which took Jamaica from the Spaniards.
He was soon afterwards promoted to major-general.
He died in Jamaica, May 24, 1656.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Rensselaer , Killian 1595 -1674 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vincent , Philip 1600 -1638 (search)
Vincent, Philip 1600-1638
Clergyman; born in Comsbrough, Yorkshire, England, Nov. 20, 1600; educated at the University of Cambridge; ordained in 1625; later came to the United States and settled in Massachusetts.
He wrote The true relation of the late battle fought in New England between the English and the Pequot savages.
He died in England after 1638.
Vincent, Philip 1600-1638
Clergyman; born in Comsbrough, Yorkshire, England, Nov. 20, 1600; educated at the University of Cambridge; ordained in 1625; later came to the United States and settled in Massachusetts.
He wrote The true relation of the late battle fought in New England between the English and the Pequot savages.
He died in England after 1638.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wigglesworth , Michael 1631 - (search)
Wigglesworth, Michael 1631-
Clergyman; born in England, Oct. 18, 1631; came to the United States with his father in 1638; graduated at Harvard College in 1651; became a tutor there; studied both theology and medicine; and was minister in Malden, Mass., from 1656 till his death, June 10, 1705.
He wrote God's controversy with New England, etc.