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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connecticut, (search)
Colony, ordered by Parliament to treat the Dutch as enemies, seize the Dutch house and lands at Hartford......1654 Death of Governor Haynes......1654 Law against Quakers: to be fined and sent out of jurisdiction......October, 1656 Gov. John Winthrop obtains for Connecticut a charter, with ample privileges, from Charles II......April 20, 1662 Charles II. grants a patent to his brother, the Duke of York, of extensive tracts, including the west side of Connecticut River......March 12, 1664 Col. Richard Nichols, governor of New York, and commissioners from Connecticut, fix the western boundary of Connecticut, beginning on the east side of Mamaroneck Creek and thence northnorthwest to the Massachusetts line. The southern line was determined to be the Sound, Connecticut losing her possessions on Long Island......Nov. 30, 1664 United colony elects John Winthrop governor......1665 Lyme made a town......May, 1667 Haddam made a town......October, 1668 Major Andros
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
r first meeting in Maine, at Newichawannock, or Piscataqua......December, 1662 Ferdinando Gorges, grandson of the original proprietor, obtains from the King an order to the governor and council of Massachusetts to restore his province in Maine......Jan. 11, 1664 A part of the grant of the King of England to the Duke of York includes the territory between the St. Croix and Pemaquid and northward, variously called the Sagadahoc Territory, New Castle, and the County of Cornwall ......March 12, 1664 King's commissioners establish a form of provisional government in the province of Maine......June 23, 1665 By the treaty of Breda the English surrender Nova Scotia to France, which also claims the province east of the Penobscot......July 31, 1667 Four commissioners from Massachusetts hold a convention in York, commanding the people of the province of Maine in his Majesty's name to yield again all obedience to the colony, doing this at the request of prominent citizens in the pr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), York, James, Duke of -1701 (search)
York, James, Duke of -1701 Born in St. James's Palace, London, England, Oct. 14, James, Duke of York. 1633; son of Charles I.; became lord high admiral on the accession of his brother Charles to the throne in 1660. On March 12, 1664, King Charles II. granted to James, under a patent bearing the royal seal, a territory in America which included all the lands and rivers from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of the Delaware River. Its inland boundary was a line from the head of the Connecticut River to the source of the Hudson, thence to the head of the Mohawk branch of the Hudson, and thence to the east of Delaware Bay. It also embraced Long Island and the adjacent islands, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket; also the territory of Pemaquid, in Maine. This granted territory embraced all of New Netherland and a part of Connecticut, which had been affirmed to other English proprietors by the charter of 1662. The duke detached four ships from the