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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 20 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield, James Abram 1831-1881 (search)
1796, and prepared for their expedition. It is interesting to follow them on their way to the Reserve. They ascended the Mohawk River in bateaux, passing through Little Falls, and from the present city of Rome took their boats and stores across into Wood Creek. Passing down the stream, they crossed the Oneida Lake, thence down the Oswego to Lake Ontario, coasting along the lake to Niagara. After encountering innumerable hardships, the party reached Buffalo on June 17, where they met Red Jacket and the principal chiefs of the Six Nations, and on the 23d of that month completed a contract with those chiefs, by which they purchased all the rights of those Indians to the lands on the Reserve, for £500, New York currency, to be paid in goods to the Western Indians, and two beef cattle and 100 gallons of whiskey to the Eastern Indians, besides gifts and provisions to all of them. Setting out from Buffalo on June 27, they coasted along the shore of the lake, some of the party in boa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prisoners for debt. (search)
ditors. Laws for the imprisonment of debtors disgraced the statute-books of our States until within a comparatively few years. When Lafayette visited the United States in 1824-25 he found Colonel Barton, the captor of General Prescott in Rhode Island, in a prison for debt, and released him by the payment of the creditor's demand. Robert Morris, whose financial ability was the main dependence of the colonies in carrying on the war for independence, was a prisoner for debt in his old age. Red Jacket, the Seneca chief, once saw a man put in jail in Batavia, N. Y., for debt. His remark— He no catch beaver there! —fully illustrated the unwisdom of such laws; for surely a man in prison cannot earn money to pay a debt. Public attention was thoroughly aroused to the cruelties of the law when John G. Whittier wrote his stirring poem, The prisoner for debt, in which he thus alluded to Colonel Barton: What hath the gray-haired prisoner done? Hath murder stained his hands with gore? Ah
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Red Jacket (search)
Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha) Seneca Indian, chief of the Wolf tribe; born near Geneva, N. Y., in 1751. He was swiftfooted, fluent-tongued, and always held great inistory at the treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784. It was on that occasion that Red Jacket. Red Jacket's fame as an orator was established. In all the dealings with whRed Jacket's fame as an orator was established. In all the dealings with white people concerning the lands in western New York, Red Jacket was always the defender of the rights of his people. His paganism never yielded to the influences of Red Jacket was always the defender of the rights of his people. His paganism never yielded to the influences of Christianity, and he was the most inveterate enemy of the missionaries sent to his nation. It was under his leadership that the Senecas became the allies of the Amer the Senecas. He died in Seneca Village, N. Y., Jan. 30, 1830. The name of Red Jacket was given him from the circumstance that towards the close of the Revolution treaty of peace and amity between the United States and the Six Nations, gave Red Jacket a medal of solid silver, with a heavy rim, the form of which, with the device
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
d tested......Dec. 9, 1830 Albany and Schenectady Railroad opened, 16 miles......1831 Chloroform first obtained by Samuel Guthrie, of Sackett's Harbor......1831 Imprisonment for contract debt, except for fraud, abolished......1831 Whig party formed......1832 Cholera in New York City, June 27 until Oct. 19; 4,000 die......1832 Buffalo and Utica incorporated as cities......1832 First horse street-railroad in the world opened in Fourth Avenue, New York City......1832 Red Jacket, the Indian chief, dies near Buffalo, aged seventy-eight......Jan. 20, 1832 Anti-slavery society of New York organized......Oct. 2, 1833 William L. Marcy, governor......1833 Riot in New York against the abolitionists......1834 A geological survey of the State ordered......1836 Union Theological Seminary in New York City founded......1836 Schenectady and Utica Railroad opened......1836 Aaron Burr dies at New York, aged eighty......Sept. 14, 1836 Legislature appropria
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weir, Robert Walter 1803-1889 (search)
. Y., June 18, 1803; studied art in Italy three years, and, returning home in 1827, opened a studio in New York City. From 1830 to 1834 he was Professor of Perspective in the National Academy of Design; in the latter year was appointed instructor in drawing in the United States Military Academy; and held that post and performed its duties with success for a little more than forty years. Professor Weir's paintings are not numerous, but are highly valued for the truthfulness and the delicacy of sentiment which they all exhibit. Among the most noted of his pictures are the Embarkation of the Pilgrims, painted for the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington; The Atiquary introducing Lovel to his Womankind; Red Jacket; Columbus before the council at Salamanca; The Landing of Hendric Hudson; The Greek girl, Rebecca; Poestum by Moonlight; The presentation in the Temple; The dying Greek; The taking of the veil; and The journey of the Disciples to Emmaus. He died in New York City, May 1, 1889.