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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , William , 1710 -1780 (search)
Allen, William, 1710-1780
jurist; born in Philadelphia about 1710; married a daughter of Andrew Hamilton, a distinguished lawyer of Pennsylvania.
whom he succeeded as recorder of Philadelphia in 1741.
He assisted Benjamin West, the painter, in his early struggles, and co-operated with Benjamin Franklin in establishing the College of Pennsylvania. Judge Allen was chief-justice of that State from 1750 to 1774.
A strong loyalist, he withdrew to England in 1774.
In London he published a pamphlet entitled The American crisis, containing a plan for restoring American dependence upon Great Britain.
He died in England in September, 1780.
educator and author; born in Pittsville, Mass., Jan. 2, 1784: graduated at Harvard College in 1802.
After entering the ministry and preaching for some time in western New York, he was elected a regent and assistant librarian of Harvard College.
He was president of Dartmouth College in 1817-20, and of Bowdoin College in 1820-39.
He was the
Anti-federal party.
At the close of the war for independence the mass of the population was agricultural and democratic, and devoted to the advancement of their separate commonwealths, the legislatures of which, under the Articles of Confederation (see Confederation, articles of), had seized upon the powers which the King had abandoned, and which the national popular will was not yet sufficiently educated to assume.
In the years from 1780 to 1787, in spite of lawlessness and bad government, great development had taken place in the United States.
The commercial and creditor classes, and the Southern property owners, who had learned their weaknesses and their needs, united for the control of the convention, in 1787, under the leadership of Hamilton, and a few other of the advanced thinkers, and formed the nucleus of what was soon to be called the Federal party.
As the old government had been strictly federal, or league, in its nature, it would seem natural that its supporters sho
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbuthnot , Marriott , -1794 (search)
Arbuthnot, Marriott, -1794
British naval officer; born about 1711; became a post-captain in 1747.
From 1775 to 1778 he was naval commissioner resident at Halifax,
Marriott Arbuthnot. Nova Scotia.
Having been raised to the rank of vice-admiral in 1779, he obtained the chief command on the American station, and was blockaded by the Count d'estaing in the harbor of New York.
In the spring of 1780 he co-operated with Sir Henry Clinton in the siege of Charleston, S. C. In February, 1793, he became admiral of the blue.
He died in London, Jan. 31, 1794.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Armand , Charles Teffin , Marquis de la Rouarie , (search)
Armand, Charles Teffin, Marquis de la Rouarie,
French military officer; born near Rennes, in 1756; came to America in 1777, and entered the Continental army as a volunteer.
He received the commission of colonel, and commanded a small corps, to which was attached a company of cavalry who acted as the police of camps.
He was an exceedingly active officer, and was highly esteemed by Washington.
In February. 1780, his corps was incorporated with that of Pulaski, who was killed at Savannah a few months before.
In March, 1783, his services throughout the war from 1777 were recognized, and he was created a brigadier-general.
Returning to France, he took part in the Revolution there, and was for a time a prisoner in the Bastile.
The execution of Louis XVI.
gave such a shock to his nervous system that he sank under it and died, Jan. 30, 1793.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Armistead , George , 1780 - (search)
Armistead, George, 1780-
Military officer; born in New Market, Caroline co., Va., April 10, 1780; entered the army as second lieutenant in 1799.
In 1813 he held the rank of major in the 3d Artillery, and was distinguished at the capture of Fort George.
His gallant defence of Fort McHenry in September, 1814, won for him immortal honors.
He had five brothers in the military service in the second war for independence--three in the regular army and two in the militia service.
Because of his bravery in defending Baltimore, he was brevetted a lieutenant-colonel; and the citizens presented him with an elegant silver service in the form of a vase fashioned like a bombshell, with goblets and salver.
After his death at Baltimore, April 25, 1818, a fine marble monument was erected there to his memory.
The
George Armistead. grateful citizens also erected a large monument, designed by Maximilian Godefroy, and wrought in white marble, in memory of all the defenders of Baltimore.
It
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arnold , Benedict , 1741 -1801 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Audubon , John James , 1780 -1851 (search)
Audubon, John James, 1780-1851
Ornithologist; born in New Orleans, May 4, 1780; was the son of a French admiral.
Educated at Paris, he acquired much skill as an artist
John James Audubon. under the instruction of the celebrated David.
At the age of seventeen years he began to make a collection of drawings of the birds of America, and became a most devoted student of the feathered tribes of our country.
So early as 1810 he went down the Ohio River with his wife and child in an open boat.
to a congenial spot for a forest home.
He visited almost every region of the United States.
In some of his Western excursions, Wilson, the ornithologist, was his companion.
In 1826 he went to Europe to secure subscriptions to his great work, The birds of America.
It was issued in numbers, each containing five plates, the subjects drawn and colored the size and tints of life.
It was completed in 4 volumes, in 1838.
Of the 170 subscribers to the work, at $1,000 each, nearly one-half came