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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mohegan , or Mohican, Indians , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan , Daniel 1736 -1802 (search)
Morgan, Daniel 1736-1802
Military officer; born in Hunterdon county, N. J., in 1736; at the age of seventeen he was a wagoner in Braddock's army, and the next year he received 500 lashes for knocking down a British lieutenant who had insulted him.
Daniel Morgan. That officer afterwards made a public apology.
Morgan became an ensign in the militia in 1758; and while carrying despatches he was severely wounded by Indians, but escaped.
After the French and Indian War he was a brawler and fighter and a dissipated gambler for a time; but he reformed, accumulated property, and commanded a company in Dunmore's expedition against the Indians in 1774.
In less than a week after he heard of the affair at Lexington he had enrolled ninety-six men, the nucleus of his famous rifle-corps, and marched them to Boston.
He accompanied Arnold in his march to Quebec in 1775, commanding three companies of riflemen, and in the siege of that city was made prisoner.
As colonel of a rifle regiment,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mormons, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Swamp fight, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Swatane or Shikellimy , (search)
Swatane or Shikellimy,
Oneida Indian chief; represented the Five Nations in their affairs with Pennsylvania in 1728, and was present at nearly every treaty made between the whites and Indians.
Shortly before his death he was baptized by Moravian missionaries.
He died in Shamokin, Pa., Dec. 17, 1748.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Talcott , John 1630 -1688 (search)
Talcott, John 1630-1688
Military officer; born in Braintree, England, about 1630; came to the United States with his father, and settled in Boston, and later in Hartford, Conn.; was made ensign of colonial troops in 1650; became captain in 1660; elected a deputy of the colony of Connecticut; treasurer of the colony in 1660-76; and was one of the patentees named in the charter granted to Connecticut in 1662 by Charles I. He served in the Indian War of 1676 as major, and in June of that year, at the head of the standing army of Connecticut, accompanied by 200 Mohican and Pequod Indians, fought a successful battle at the Housatonic.
He was promoted lieutenant-colonel during the war. Many of his official papers are preserved among the State records in Hartford.
He died in Hartford, Conn., July 23, 1688.
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Margaret Smith 's Journal (search)
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Tales and Sketches (search)