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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agreement of the people, (search)
Annapolis,
City. county seat of Anne Arundel county, and capital of the State of Maryland: on the Severn River, 20 miles south by east of Baltimore: is the seat of the United States Naval Academy and of St. John's College; population in 1890, 7,604; 1900, 8,402.
Puritan refugees from Massachusetts, led by Durand, a ruling elder, settled on the site of Annapolis in 1649, and, in imitation of Roger Williams, called the place Providence.
The next year a commissioner of Lord Baltimore organized there the county of Anne Arundel, so named in compliment to Lady Baltimore, and Providence was called Anne Arundel Town.
A few years later it again bore the name of Providence, and became the seat of Protestant influence and of a Protestant government, disputing the legislative authority with the Roman Catholic government at the ancient capital, St. Mary's. In 1694 the latter was abandoned as the capital of the province, and the seat of government was established on the Severn.
The village
Cavaliers,
Adherents of the fortunes of the Stuarts—the nobility, and the bitter opposers of the Puritans.
On the death of Charles I. (1649), they fled to Virginia by hundreds, where only, in America, their Church and their King were respected.
They made an undesirable addition to the population, excepting their introduction of more refinement of manner than the ordinary colonist possessed.
They were idle, inclined to luxurious living, and haughty in their deportment towards the common people.
It was they who rallied around Berkeley in his struggles with Bacon (see Bacon, Nathaniel), and gave him all his strength in the Assembly.
They were extremely social among their class, and gatherings and feastings and wine-drinking were much indulged in until poverty pinched them.
They gave a stimulus to the slave-trade, for, unwilling to work themselves, they desired servile tillers of their broad acres; and so were planted the seeds of a landed oligarchy in Virginia that ruled the co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clarke , John 1609 -1676 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Common schools, early , (search)
Common schools, early,
In 1649 provision was made in the Massachusetts code for the establishing of common schools in that province.
By it every township was required to maintain a school for reading and writing; and every town of 100 householders, a grammar school, with a teacher qualified to fit youths for the university (Harvard). This school law was reenacted in Connecticut in the very same terms, and was adopted also by Plymouth and New Haven.
The preamble to this law declared that, it being one chief project of that old deluder, Sathan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these later times persuading men from the use of tongues, so that at the least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded with false glossing of saintseeming deceivers, and that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers, therefore this law was enacted.
See education.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Daille , Pierre , 1649 -1715 (search)
Daille, Pierre, 1649-1715
Clergyman; born in France in 1649; banished because of his Huguenot faith in 1683, and removed to New York to work among the French under the Reformed Church.
In 1688 the French erected their first church in Marketfield Street, between Broad and Whitehall streets; in 1692 Daille narrowly escaped imprisonment because he had denounced the violent measures of Jacob Leisler (q. v.); and in 1696 he became pastor of the School Street Church in Boston.
He died in Bosto1715
Clergyman; born in France in 1649; banished because of his Huguenot faith in 1683, and removed to New York to work among the French under the Reformed Church.
In 1688 the French erected their first church in Marketfield Street, between Broad and Whitehall streets; in 1692 Daille narrowly escaped imprisonment because he had denounced the violent measures of Jacob Leisler (q. v.); and in 1696 he became pastor of the School Street Church in Boston.
He died in Boston, Mass., May 21, 1715.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gibbons , Edward 1629 -1654 (search)
Gibbons, Edward 1629-1654
Colonist; born in England; came to America in 1629 and settled in Boston; became sergeant-major of the Suffolk regiment in 1644; was major-general of militia in 1649-50.
He was a member of the commission of 1643 to establish the confederation of the Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies.
He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 9, 1654.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gospel , Society for the Propagation of the. Edward Winslow (q. V.) (search)
Gospel, Society for the Propagation of the. Edward Winslow (q. V.)
The third governor of the Plymouth colony, became greatly interested in the spiritual concerns of the Indians of New England; and when, in 1649, he went to England on account of the colony, he induced leading men there to join in the formation of a society for the propagation of the Gospel among the natives in America.
The society soon afterwards began its work in America, and gradually extended its labors to other English colonies.
In 1701 (June 16) it was incorporated under the title of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
William III.
zealously promoted the operations of the society, for he perceived that in a community of religion there was security for political obedience.
The society still exists, and its operations are widely extended over the East and West Indies, Southern Africa, Australia, and islands of the Southern Ocean.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Green , Samuel 1615 -1792 (search)
Green, Samuel 1615-1792
Second printer in the United States; born in England in 1615; succeeded Day (see day, or dayE, Stephen) in 1648. Mr. Green had nineteen children, and his descendants were a race of printers in New England and in Maryland.
He printed the Cambridge Platform in 1649, the entire Bible and Psalter, translated into the Indian language by John Eliot the Apostle, in 1663, and many other books.
He died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 1, 1792.