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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 7 7 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 4: (search)
rt order agents of estates of absentees to lay before them an account of all the property of such persons; and, furthermore, resolve that none of the real estate shall be sold to pay their debts. Feb. 1, 1779: The General Court resolved that all moneys received from rent or sale of the land of absentees be put into the treasury of the State. May 1, 1779: The Court resolved to direct all agents to warn out the present possessors, and give possession to the new lessees of the State. May, 1779: The General Court appointed a Committee to sell at auction the confiscated estates of certain absentees. Sir William Pepperell, the son-in-law of Colonel Royal, is named in the list; but Colonel Royal is not. October, 1782: The General Court resolved that the estates of absentees ought to be held to pay the just debts of said persons; and therefore they order that the moneys received from the sale of such estates shall go to pay the creditors, deducting three per cent to the State for
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hessians. (search)
178150 Hesse-Hanau, recruits sent in April, 1782334 ——— Total2,422 Returned in the autumn of 17831,441 ——— Did not return981 Anspach-Bayreuth sent in 17771,603 Anspach-Bayreuth sent in 1779157 Anspach-Bayreuth sent in 1780152 Anspach-Bayreuth sent in 1781205 Anspach-Bayreuth sent in 1782236 ——— Total2,353 Returned in the autumn of 17831,183 ——— Did not return1,170 Waldeck sent in 1776670 Waldeck sent in April, 177789 Waldeck sent in February, 1778140 Waldeck sent in May, 177923 Waldeck sent in April, 1781144 Waldeck sent in April, 1782159 ——— Total1,225 Returned in the autumn of 1783505 ——— Did not return720 Anhalt-Zerbst sent in 1778600 Anhalt-Zerbst sent in April, 177982 Anhalt-Zerbst sent in May, 178050 Anhalt-Zerbst sent in April, 1781420 ——— Total1,152 Returned in the autumn of 1783984 ——— Did not return168 Total number sent29,867 Total number returned17,313 ——— Total number of those wh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kentucky, (search)
who ever stood on the banks of the Kentucky River. The precarious tenure by which places that were settled in Kentucky by Boone and others were held, while the land was subjected to bloody incursions by Indians, was changed after George Rogers Clarke's operations in Ohio had made the tribes there no longer invaders of the soil south of that river. The number of stations began to multiply. A blockhouse was built (April, 1779) on the site of the city of Lexington. By a law of Virginia (May, 1779), all persons who had settled west of the mountains before June, 1778, were entitled to claim 400 acres of land, without any payment: and they had a right of pre-emption to an adjoining 1,000 acres for a very small sum of money, while the whole region between the Greene and Tennessee rivers was reserved for military bounties. Settlements quite rapidly increased under this liberal Virginia land system, and fourteen years after its passage Kentucky had a population that entitled it to adm
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Matthews, Edward 1729-1805 (search)
Matthews, Edward 1729-1805 Military officer; born in England in 1729. In 1746 he was an ensign in the Coldstream Guards, and before he came to America, in 1776, was a colonel and aide-de-camp to the King. He commanded a brigade of the Guards, with the rank of brigadier-general, in the attack on Fort Washington. In May, 1779, General Clinton sent 2,000 men from New York, under General Matthews, to plunder the coast of Virginia. He entered the Elizabeth River on transports, escorted by a squadron of armed vessels under Sir George Collier, on May 9. They plundered and spread desolation on both sides of the river to Norfolk. They seized that city, then rising from its ashes and enjoying a considerable trade, and also Portsmouth, opposite. These were the chief places of deposit of Virginia agricultural productions, especially tobacco. They captured and burned not less than 130 merchant vessels in the James and Elizabeth rivers, an unfinished Continental frigate on the stocks
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moultrie, William 1731-1805 (search)
Moultrie, William 1731-1805 Military officer; born in South Carolina in 1731; was captain of infantry in the Cherokee War; William Moultrie. member of the Provincial Congress from St. Helena parish in 1775, and was made colonel of the 2d South Carolina Regiment in June of that year. He gained great fame by his defence of Fort Sullivan (see Charleston), in Charleston Harbor. In September, 1776, he was made a brigadier-general. He was engaged in the local service, and in May, 1779, with 1,000 militia, opposed the advance of Prevost upon Charleston, which he held until Lincoln relieved him. He was distinguished at the siege of Charleston in 1780, was made a prisoner, and remained so until 1782, when he was exchanged for Burgoyne. While a prisoner he wrote his Memoirs, published in 1802. In October of that year, he was promoted major-general, and was governor of South Carolina in 1785-86 and 1794-96. He died in Charleston, S. C., Sept. 27, 1805.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nelson, Thomas -1789 (search)
ktown, Va., Dec. 26, 1738; was educated at Cambridge, England, and, returning home when not yet twenty-one years of age, was elected to the House of Burgesses. He was a member of the popular convention in Williamsburg in 1774 and 1775; was conspicuous in the Virginia convention which, in May, 1776, framed a State constitution; and was then a member of the Continental Congress, in which he voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence, 1777. The marauding expedition of Matthews, in May, 1779, caused him to organize the militia to The Nelson mansion. repel it; and a call for a loan of $2,000,000 having been made by the State, Nelson raised the larger portion of it on his own personal security. He also advanced the money to pay the arrears of two Virginia regiments, who would not march to the South until they were paid. These patriotic sacrifices so impaired his ample fortune that he suffered pecuniary embarrassments in the later years of his life. A part of the year 1781
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Robertson, James 1742-1814 (search)
st September, 1814. Charlotte R., wife of James Robertson, was born in North Carolina, 2d January, 1751. Died 11th June, 1843. Their son Dr. Felix Robertson, who was born in the fort, and the first white child whose birth was in west Tennessee, died at Nashville in 1864. Royal governor, born in Fifeshire, Scotland, about 1710; was deputy-quartermaster under General Abercrombie in 1758; was at the capture of Louisburg; and accompanied Amherst to Lake Champlain in 1759. He took part in the expedition against Martinique in 1762, and was afterwards stationed in New York. At Boston, in 1775, he was made major-general, Jan. 1, 1776, and at the evacuation of that city he shared in the plunder. He was in the battle of Long Island; was military governor of New York until his return to England; and, coming back, was commissioned military governor of the city of New York in May, 1779, and remained such until April, 1783, when he again returned to England, where he died, March 4, 1788.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vaughan, Sir John 1738- (search)
Vaughan, Sir John 1738- Military officer; born in England in 1738; came to America as colonel of the 40th Regiment, and served on the staff of Sir Henry Clinton as brigadier-general and major-general. In January, 1777, he was made majorgeneral in the British army. In the battle of Long Island he led the grenadiers, and was wounded at the landing on New York Island afterwards. He participated in the capture of forts Clinton and Montgomery, in the Hudson Highlands, and, proceeding up the river in a squadron of light vessels, he burned Kingston and devastated other places on the shores. In May, 1779, he captured Stony and Verplanck's points on the Hudson, and returned to England in the fall, becoming commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands. With Rodney, he took Eustatia in 1781. He was a representative of Berwick, in Parliament, from 1774 until his death in Martinique, June 30, 1795.