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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agreement of the people, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eliot , John , 1754 -1690 (search)
Eliot, John, 1754-1690
The Apostle to the Indians; born either in Nasing, Essex, or Widford, Hertfordshire, England., presumably in 1604, as he was baptized in Widford, Aug. 5, 1604.
Educated at Cambridge, he removed to Boston in 1631, and the next year was appointed minister at Roxbury.
Seized with a passionate longing for the conversion of the Indians and for improving their condition, he commenced his labors among the twenty tribes within the English domain in Massachusetts in October, 1646.
He acquired their language through an Indian servant in his family, made a grammar of it, and translated the Bible into the Indian tongue.
It is claimed that Eliot was the first Protestant minister who preached to the Indians in their native tongue.
An Indian town called Natick was erected on the Charles River for the praying Indians in 1657, and the first Indian church was established there in 1660.
During King
John Eliot. Philip's War Eliot's efforts in behalf of the praying
Essex, the,
A frigate of 860 tons, rated at thirty-two guns, but actually carried forty-six; built in Salem, Mass., in 1799.
On June 26, 1812, under command of Capt. David Porter, she left Sandy Hook, N. J., on a cruise, with a flag at her masthead bearing the significant words, free-trade and sailors' rights.
He soon captured several English merchant vesels, making trophy bonfires of most of them on the ocean, and their crews his prisoners.
After cruising southward several weeks in di x guns, Captain Hillyar, and her consort, the Cherub, twenty-two guns, Captain Tucker.
The former mounted thirty long 18-pounders, sixteen 32-pounder carronades, and one howitzer; also six 3-pounders in her tops.
Her crew consisted of 320 men
Essex fighting Phoebe and Cherub. and boys.
the Cherub mounted eighteen 32-pounder carronades below, with eight 24-pounder carronades and two long nines above, making a total of twenty-eight guns.
Her crew numbered 180.
the Essex at that time coul
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Felt , Joseph Barlow 1789 -1869 (search)
Felt, Joseph Barlow 1789-1869
Historian; born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 22, 1789; graduated at Dartmouth in 1813, and entered the ministry.
In 1836 he was asked to arrange the state papers of Massachusetts, which at that time were in confusion.
He was librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1842-48, and president of the New England Historico-Genealogical Society in 1850-53.
He was the author of Annals of Salem; History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton; Historical account of Massachusetts currency; Memoirs of Roger Conant, Hugh Peters, and William S. Shaw; also of The customs of New England.
He died in Salem, Mass., Sept. 8, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gerrymandering, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battle of Lexington and Concord . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Provincial Congresses (search)