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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
ount, S. C. July 30, 1780 Command in the highlands of the Hudson with West Point given to Gen. Benedict Arnold Aug. 3, 1780 Battle of Hanging Rock, S. C. Aug. 6, 1780 Battle of Camden, S. C.; Gates defeated Aug. 16, 1780 Battles of Musgrove Mills and Fishing Creek, S. C. Aug. 18, 1780 Maj. John Andre, British adjutant-general, meets Benedict Arnold near Stony Point, N. Y. Sept. 21, 1780 Major Andre captured near Tarrytown.Sept. 23, 1780 Arnold escapes to the British vessel Vulture Sept. 24, 1780 Battle of Charlotte, N. C. Sept. 26, 1780 Andre convicted as a spy by military board, Gen. Nathanael Greene, president, Sept. 29, and hung at Tappan, N. Y. Oct. 2, 1780 Congress votes John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wart, cap- tors of Andre, its thanks, a silver medal, and a pension of $200 each yearly, for life Oct., 1780 Henry Laurens, minister from United States, seized on his way to Holland by a British frigate, Sept. 3, and imprisoned in the Tower of LondonOct.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
nd in the Highlands of the Hudson, with the works at West Point, is given to Gen. Benedict Arnold......Aug. 3, 1780 Maj. John Andre, adjutant-general of the British army, lands from the British sloop-of-war Vulture, and meets General Arnold on the night of......Sept. 21, 1780 Attempting to return to New York, he is captured by John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wart, near Tarrytown......Sept. 23, 1780 Arnold, hearing of the capture of Andre, escapes to the Vulture......Sept. 24, 1780 [Arnold received from the British government £ 10,000 and commission of brigadier-general.] A military board, Gen. Nathanael Greene president, convict Andre as a spy......Sept. 29, 1780 General Washington approves the finding of the board......Sept. 30, 1780 Major Andre hanged at Tappan at twelve o'clock, noon, and buried there......Oct. 2, 1780 Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, coming from England, settles with a body of that sect near Albany, 1774, and establishes a commu
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
c, adult, bap. and o. c. 7 Apr. 1805, Ebenezer, William.—See Paige. 4. George, s. of Ebenezer (1), m. Lydia Hill, 21 June, 1770. He o. c. here 5 May, 1771. Had Lydia, b. 15 Apr., bap. 5 May, 1771, m. Jonas Peirce (see Peirce); Sarah, b. 10, bap. 14 Feb. 1773, d. 5 Mar. 1773, a. 3 wks.; George, b. (24), bap. 19 May, 1774; Sarah, b. 25 Nov., bap. 17 Dec. 1775, d. unm.—Mar. 1797, a. 21; Ebenezer, b. 29 June, bap. 5 July, 1778; d. 28 July, 1801, a. 23; Elizabeth, b. 29 (19, prob.), bap. 24 Sept. 1780, m. Joseph Stearns of Billerica, 11 May, 1828; Mrs. Elizabeth Stearns of Billerica—Joseph's wife and daughter of George Prentice—d. 26 Sept. 1835, a. 55.—Damon. Zechariah and Rebecca (twins), b. 17, bap. 20 Oct. 1782—the former d. 27 Oct., a. 10 ds., the latter 28 Oct. 1782, a. 11 ds.; had also Mary, m. Abijah Peirce, of Winchendon, 3 Sept. 1826; Rebecca, m. Ebenezer Warren, 31 Mar. 1811—Mary and Rebecca o. c. and bap. here 17 Nov. 1805; John (see par. 9); John (?), d. 22 Nov.