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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berkeley , Sir William , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blair , James , 1656 -1743 (search)
Blair, James, 1656-1743
Educator; born in Scotland in 1656; was sent to Virginia as a missionary in 1865 and in 1692 obtained the charter of William and Mary College, of which he was the first president.
He published The state of his Majesty's colony in Virginia, in 1727.
He died in Williamsburg, Va., Aug. 1, 1743.<
Blair, James, 1656-1743
Educator; born in Scotland in 1656; was sent to Virginia as a missionary in 1865 and in 1692 obtained the charter of William and Mary College, of which he was the first president.
He published The state of his Majesty's colony in Virginia, in 1727.
He died in Williamsburg, Va., Aug. 1, 1743.<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Friends, Society of (search)
Friends, Society of
Otherwise known as Quakers, claim as their founder George Fox (q. v.), an Englishman; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, in 1624.
The first general meeting of Friends was held in 1668, and the second in 1672.
Owing to the severe persecution which they suffered in England, a number of them came to America in 1656, and landed at Boston, whence they were later scattered by persecution.
The first annual meeting in America is said to have been held in Rhode Island in 1661.
It was separated from the London annual meeting in 1683.
This meeting was held regularly at Newport till 1878, since when it has alternated between Newport and Portland,
Quaker Exhorter in colonial New England. Me. Annual meetings were founded in Maryland in 1672, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1681, in North Carolina in 1708, and in Ohio in 1812.
The Friends have no creed, and no sacraments.
They claim that a spiritual baptism and a spiritual communion without outward signs are all
Jenckes, Joseph
Colonial governor; born on the site of the city of Pawtucket, R. I., in 1656; held a seat in the General Assembly of Rhode Island in 1679-93; was appointed to arrange the boundary disputes with Connecticut and Massachusetts, and afterwards those which had arisen between Massachusetts and New Hampshire and Maine.
He was also made commissioner to answer a letter of the King regarding the condition of affairs in Rhode Island, and to reply to a number of questions proposed by the lords of the privy council.
He was governor of Rhode Island in 1727-32.
He died June 15, 1740.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jesuit missions. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), La Tour , Charles -1656 (search)
La Tour, Charles -1656
Proprietary governor.
When Acadia, or Nova Scotia, was returned to the French (1632), it was apportioned into provinces, under proprietary governors.
To Razille, commander-in-chief, was granted the southern portion of the peninsula, and one of his lieutenants was Charles La Tour, to whom was assigned a large portion of the territory.
He and Seigneur D'Aulnay Charissy (another lieutenant), who controlled a section extending westward to the Kennebee River, were both rom the wilderness, vindicated his character before his sovereign, was made lieutenantgovernor of Acadia, and again recovered his fort at St. John.
He married the widow of his rival, and inherited his shattered estate, and prosperity once more smiled upon the Huguenot; for his claim to extensive territorial rights in Acadia, by virtue of Sir William Alexander's grant to his father, was recognized in 1656.
He soon afterwards died.
Acadia had then passed once more into the hands of the English.
Le Moyne, 1656-1683
The name of a distinguished Canadian family, members of which bore conspicuous parts in early American history.
They were descended from Charles of Normandy, who died in Montreal, Canada, in 1683.
He went to Canada in 1641, where he became a famous Indian fighter.
In 1668 Louis XIV.
made him seigneur of Longueil, and subsequently of Chateaugay.
He had eleven sons, of whom Bienville and Iberville (qq.
v.) were the most eminent.
Charles, first Sieur de Longueil, was born in Montreal, Dec. 10, 1656; died there, June 8, 1729.
He was made a lieutenant-general of regulars in the royal army of France, and, returning to Canada, built churches and a fort at Longueil.
He fought the English assailants of Quebec under Phipps in 1690, and was made baron and governor of Montreal in 1700.
Becoming commandant-general of Canada, he prepared to meet the expedition against Quebec under Walker in 1711.
In 1720 he was governor of Three Rivers, and again of Montreal in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Amstel. (search)
New Amstel.
In 1656 the Dutch West India Company transferred to the City of Amsterdam all the Dutch territory on the South (Delaware) River, from the west side of Christian Kill to the mouth of the river, for the sum of 700,000 guilders.
It was named Nieuwe Amstel, after one of the suburbs belonging to the city between the Amstel River and the Haerlem Sea.
The burgomasters of Amsterdam appointed six commissioners to manage the colony, who were to sit and hold their meetings at the West India House on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The city offered a free passage to emigrants, lands for residences, provisions and clothing for a year, and a proper person for a school-master, who should also read the Scriptures in public, and set the Psalms.
The municipal government was the same as in Amsterdam.
The colonists were not to be taxed for ten years, and regulations were made in respect to trade The States-General ratified all the arrangements, on condition that when there should be 200 in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Amsterdam. (search)