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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fox, George 1624-1691 (search)
Fox, George 1624-1691 Founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, England, in July, 1624. His fathe his son an education beyond reading and writing. The son, who George Fox. was grave and contemplative in temperament, was apprenticed to aIsland, and New Jersey, visiting Friends wherever they were seated. Fox afterwards visited Holland and parts of Germany. His writings upon s, who denied the pretensions to spiritual enlightenment, challenged Fox to disputation. Before the challenge was received, Fox had departedFox had departed, but three of his disciples at Newport accepted it. Williams went there in an open boat, 30 miles from Providence, and, though over seventy quarrel. Williams published an account of it, with the title of George Fox digged out of his Burrowes; to which Fox replied in a pamphlet end out of his Burrowes; to which Fox replied in a pamphlet entitled, A New England Firebrand quenched. Neither was sparing in sharp epithets.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Friends, Society of (search)
Friends, Society of Otherwise known as Quakers, claim as their founder George Fox (q. v.), an Englishman; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, in 1624. The first general meeting of Friends was held in 1668, and the second in 1672. Owing to the severe persecution which they suffered in England, a number of them came to America in 1656, and landed at Boston, whence they were later scattered by persecution. The first annual meeting in America is said to have been held in Rhode Island in 1661. It was separated from the London annual meeting in 1683. This meeting was held regularly at Newport till 1878, since when it has alternated between Newport and Portland, Quaker Exhorter in colonial New England. Me. Annual meetings were founded in Maryland in 1672, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1681, in North Carolina in 1708, and in Ohio in 1812. The Friends have no creed, and no sacraments. They claim that a spiritual baptism and a spiritual communion without outward signs are all
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quakers. (search)
gland under the above act, was subjected to a fine of 5,000 lbs. of tobacco for the first offence. Severe laws against other sectaries were passed in Virginia, and many of the Non-conformists in that colony, while Berkeley ruled, fled deep into the wilderness to avoid persecution. Because the Friends refused to perform military duty or take an oath in Maryland they were subject to fines and imprisonment, but were not persecuted there on account of their religious views. When, in 1676, George Fox was in Maryland, his preaching was not hindered. He might be seen on the shores of the Chesapeake, preaching at the evening twilight, when the labors of the day were over, to a multitude of people, comprising members of the legislature and other distinguished men of the province, yeomen, and large groups of Indians, with chiefs and sachems, their wives and children, all led by their emperor. Fenwick, one of the purchasers of west Jersey, made the first settlement of members of his se
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Reservations,
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Pine Ridge South Dakota. Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland Oklahoma. Pottawattomie and Great Nemaha Kansas. Pueblo and Jicarilla New Mexico. PuyallupWashington. QuapawIndian Territory. RosebudSouth Dakota. Round Valley California. Sac and FoxIowa. Sac and Fox Oklahoma. San Carlos Arizona. Santee Nebraska. Seminole Florida. Shoshone Wyoming. Siletz Oregon. Sisseton South Dakota. Southern Ute Colorado. Standing Rock North Dakota. Tongue River Montana. TulalipWashington. U Round Valley California. Sac and FoxIowa. Sac and Fox Oklahoma. San Carlos Arizona. Santee Nebraska. Seminole Florida. Shoshone Wyoming. Siletz Oregon. Sisseton South Dakota. Southern Ute Colorado. Standing Rock North Dakota. Tongue River Montana. TulalipWashington. Uintah and Ouray Utah. Umatilla Oregon. Union Indian Territory. Walker River Reservation Nevada. Warm Springs Oregon. Western Shoshone Nevada. White Earth Minnesota. YakimaWashington. Yankton South Dakota.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ship-building. (search)
This increase of the naval force led our Secretary of State, Mr. Forsyth, to remonstrate to Mr. Fox, the British minister. Mr. Fox replied that the increase was made necessary in consequence of Mr. Fox replied that the increase was made necessary in consequence of unlawful and piratical acts of hostility; that the armament was equipped for the sole purpose of guarding her Majesty's province against a manifest and acknowledged danger, and that it would be discod to exist. This reply satisfied Mr. Forsyth for a year, when he again called the attention of Mr. Fox to the matter and suggested that, the causes for the increase in the armament having ceased to otest from Mr. Webster, who had become Secretary of State. In replying to Mr. Webster's notes, Mr. Fox stated that the vessels of war serving on the Canadian lakes were equipped for the sole purpose States, in defiance of the efforts of the government to prevent them. The explanation made by Mr. Fox apparently satisfied Mr. Webster, although he had originally insisted upon a rigid compliance w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spiritualism, or spiritism, (search)
to the belief that certain phenomena or visible manifestations of power are produced by the spirits of the dead. These phenomena have been witnessed and commented upon in all ages; notable instances within the last 250 years at Woodstock, 1649; at Tedworth, 1661; at the Epworth parsonage, in the family of Mr. Wesley, the father of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism; the case of the Cock-lane ghost, in London; at Sunderland, at the residence of Mr. Jobson, 1839 (all these in England). The Fox sisters in the United States, 1848 (noted below), and, as some suppose, in the Salem witchcraft cases of 1692. They have been attributed to diabolical agencies. It is claimed that under favorable circumstances, by a force apparently residing in the subject itself, and with no external source, inanimate objects (articles of furniture, etc.) are moved, rappings are heard, articles disappear from one closed apartment to appear in another, writing is produced purporting to be by spirits of the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
country by Charles II., and called New Castle......Nov. 3, 1664 Swedish church erected at Crane-hook 1 1/2 miles from Fort Christiana......1667 Temporary council of Deputy-Governor Carr and six others, swearing allegiance to the Duke of York, established at New Castle......1668 Konigsmarke, better known as the Long Finn, instigating rebellion against the Duke of York in Delaware, is arrested and imprisoned in New York; afterwards transported to the Barbadoes......Dec. 20, 1669 George Fox, the Friend, holds a large meeting in New Castle......1672 New Castle incorporated and a constable's court erected......May, 1672 Anthony Clove appointed governor of Delaware under the Dutch, who retake New York......Aug. 12, 1673 By treaty of Westminster, Delaware reverts to the English, and Sir Edmund Andros reappoints magistrates who had been removed by the Dutch......1674 William Penn arrives at New Castle with deed from Duke of York for a circle of 12 miles around New Cast
i, including a large part of Iowa, ceded to United States by Sac and Fox Indians, by treaty at St. Louis......Nov. 3, 1804 Territory of Louisiana, including Iowa, framed by law of......March 3, 1805 Iowa included in Territory of Missouri, erected by act......June 4, 1812 Fort Madison, built in 1808, on the site selected by Lieutenant Pike in 1805, is abandoned by the garrison and burned to prevent its falling into the hands of Indians and British......1813 Sioux annihilate Sac and Fox tribes near Dubuque; whites occupy deserted villages, but are driven out by United States troops under Lieut. Jefferson Davis, by order of Col. Zachary Taylor......1830 David Tothers makes the first settlement in Des Moines county, 3 miles southwest from the site of Burlington......1832 Treaty at Rock Island; the Sacs and Foxes cede to the United States Iowa and a part of Wisconsin, known as the Black Hawk purchase, reserving 40 miles square to Keokuk......Sept. 21, 1832 Zachariah Ha
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
anting of tobacco for one year ......1666 First naturalization act passed, admitting certain French and Bohemians to citizenship......1666 Boundary-line between Maryland and Virginia from Chesapeake Bay to the Atlantic Ocean established, and the true location of Watkins Point on the bay, marking its beginning, settled by a commission; Philip Calvert, of Maryland, and Edmond Scarborough, of Virginia, appointed......June 25, 1668 Act to encourage importation of slaves......1671 George Fox visits the Friends in Maryland......1672 A number of outrages on the people of Maryland and Virginia by the Indians; five chiefs of the Susquehannocks, captured in a joint expedition, are put to death by Major Trueman, commanding the Maryland forces, although they protested their innocence and blamed the Senecas for the outrages. For this act Major Trueman was inpeached by the House of Delegates, but escaped punishment......Sept. 25, 1675 Cecilius Calvert dies, and Charles Calvert,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
England to answer for refusing the commissioners jurisdiction; she replies evasively......1666 Baptists form a church in Boston, first in Massachusetts......1664-68 Church of Massachusetts debates with Baptists at Boston......April 14, 1668 Title of reverend first applied to the clergy of New England......1670 Two young married Quaker women walk naked through the towns of Newbury and Salem, in emulation of the prophet Ezekiel, as a sign of the nakedness of the land......1671 George Fox, founder and apostle of the Quakers, comes to Rhode Island, but does not venture into Massachusetts......1672 Governor Bellingham dies in office......1673 Population of Massachusetts proper was over 22,000, that of the Plymouth colony was probably not far from 7,000, while the Indian population was less than 8,000 in both territories......1675 Three Indians of the Wampanoags are seized, taken to Plymouth, tried, and executed for the murder of one Sausaman, an Indian of the Massach