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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mitchell, Nahum 1769-1853 (search)
Mitchell, Nahum 1769-1853 Jurist: born in East Bridgewater, Mass., Feb. 12, 1769; graduated at Harvard College in 1789: admitted to the bar in 1792; member of Congress in 1803-5, and attained prominence as a jurist in his native State. He published a History of the early settlements of Bridgewater, a valuable contribution to the history of New England. He died in East Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 1, 1853.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Monroe, Andrew 1792-1871 (search)
Monroe, Andrew 1792-1871 Clergyman; born in Virginia, Oct. 29, 1792; became a Methodist preacher in 1815, joining the Ohio conference. He was sent as a circuit rider to the outline settlements in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, the greater portion of his labors being in Missouri, where he was known as the patriot of Methodism. He died in Mexico, Mo., Nov. 18, 1871.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moore, Alfred 1755-1810 (search)
Moore, Alfred 1755-1810 Jurist; born in Brunswick county, N. C., May 21, 1755; served in the Revolutionary army throughout the war; elected attorney-general of North Carolina in 1792; appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1799. He resigned in 1804, and died in Bladen county, N. C., Oct. 15, 1810.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moravian town, (search)
Moravian town, A settlement in Kent county, Ontario, Canada, on the bank of the River Thames, near which General Harrison defeated General Proctor in battle on Oct. 5, 1813. The settlers were Indians who had been converted to Christianity by the Moravians, who fled to Canada from the Muskingum, in Ohio, in 1792. By an order of the Provincial Council in 1793, about 50,000 acres of land were granted for their use, on which they proceeded to build a church and a village. Rev. John Scott, of Bethlehem, ministered there for some time. At the time of the battle this Christian Indian village had about 100 houses, mostly well built, a schoolhouse and chapel, and very fine gardens.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morris, Gouverneur 1752- (search)
phlet containing Observations on the American Revolution. In 1781 he was the assistant of Robert Morris, the superintendent of finance. After living in Philadelphia six years, he purchased (1786) the estate of Morrisania from his brother, and made it his residence afterwards. Prominent in the convention that framed the national Constitution, he put that instrument into the literary shape in which it was adopted. In 1791 he was sent to London as private agent of the United States, and from 1792 to 1794 was American minister to France. He had seen many of the phases of the French Revolution, and with a tantalizing coolness had pursued Washington's policy of neutrality towards France and England. This course offended the ardent French republicans, and when making out the letters recalling Genet, the committee of public safety, in which Robespierre and his associates were predominant, solicited the recall of Morris. For reasons of policy the President complied, Gouverneur Morris
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moylan, Stephen 1734-1811 (search)
Moylan, Stephen 1734-1811 Soldier; born in Ireland in 1734; was a brother of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork; was appointed aide-de-camp to Washington in March, 1776, and commissary-general in June. Resigning that post, early in 1777, he commanded a regiment of light dragoons, serving in the battle at Germantown, with Wayne in Pennsylvania, and with Greene in the South. In November, 1783, he was brevetted brigadiergeneral. In 1792 he was register and recorder of Chester county, Pa., and was commissioner of loans for the district of Pennsylvania. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 11, 1811.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
bject of the Revolutionary fathers in enacting the prohibitive navigation law of 1792 was to provide for the development and perpetuity of ship-building in the Unitedfirst cost of ships existed at the date of the passage of the prohibitory law in 1792. Hence, it could not have been a merely protective measure, in the tariff senseort a newly built foreign ship. Therefore, the immediate object of their law of 1792 could not have been else than to prohibit the purchase and registry of old and pat the very beginning of the federal government they laid this navigation law of 1792 as one of the foundation-stones of our domestic polity for all time, and wholly ne or both Houses of Congress had inherited the patriotism of their ancestors of 1792. Had any of these assaults been successful to the extent of wiping the act of 1792 from the pages of the Revised Statutes, there would not now be a first-class shipyard in existence on our soil, and we would have been, like Chile and Japan, fo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nelson, Samuel 1792-1873 (search)
Nelson, Samuel 1792-1873 Jurist; born in Hebron, Washington co., N. Y., Nov. 10, 1792; graduated at Middlebury College in 1813, and admitted to the New York bar in 1817. He was circuit judge in 1823-31; was then appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court of New York; and was its chief-justice in 1837-45. In the latter year President Tyler appointed him an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court to succeed Judge Smith Thompson. In the famous Dred Scott case (q. v.) he concurred with the decision of Chief-Justice Taney, holding that, if Congress possessed power under the Constitution to abolish slavery, it must necessarily possess the like power to establish it. In 1871 he was a member of the joint high commission on the Alabama claims. Illness compelled him to resign his office in October, 1872. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1873
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nichols, George 1755-1799 (search)
Nichols, George 1755-1799 Statesman; born in Hanover, Va., about 1755; graduated at William and Mary College in 1772; commissioned major of the 2d Virginia Regiment in 1777; and later was made its colonel. He was active in his State convention in securing the ratification of the federal Constitution, and wielded a powerful influence in the House of Delegates. He went to Kentucky in 1790, and was there elected a member of the convention to draw up a State constitution in 1792. Later he became the first attorney-general of that State. He died in Kentucky in 1799.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North, Frederick 1733-1792 (search)
North, Frederick 1733-1792 Second Earl of Guilford, and eighth Baron North, statesman; born in England, April 13, 1733; educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he made a lengthened tour on the Continent. In 1754 he entered Parliament for Banbury, which he represented almost thirty years; and entered the cabinet under Pitt, in 1759, as commissioner of the treasury. He warmly supported the Stamp Act (1764-65) and the right of Parliament to tax the colonies. In 1766 he was appointed paymaster of the forces, and the next year was made chancellor of the exchequer, succeeding Charles Townshend as leader of the House of Commons. He became prime minister in 1770, and he held that post during the American Revolutionary War. In February, 1775, Lord North received information from Benjamin Franklin (q. v.), which greatly disheartened him, and he dreaded a war with the colonists which his encouragement of the King's obstinacy was provoking, and, armed with the King's consent i
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