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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 1: the political Conventions in 1860. (search)
ational Democratic Hall in New York, signed by Samuel B. Williams, Chairman, M. Dudley Bean, Secretary of the Trustees. It was also signed by William Beach Lawrence, Chairman, and James B. Bensel, Secretary, of an Executive Committee; and Thaddeus P. Mott, Chairman, and J. Lawrence, Secretary of the Association, whatever it was. These certified that Gideon J. Tucker and Dr. Charles Edward Lewis Stuart had been appointed delegates at large from the Association ; and that Colonel Baldwin, Isaac Lawrence, James B. Bensel, and James Villiers, had been appointed Delegates, and N. Drake Parsons, James S. Selby: M. Dudley Bean, and A. W. Gilbert, Alternatives, to represent the Association at the Richmond Convention for the nomination of President and Vice-president, &c. They were finally treated with courteous contempt, by being simply admitted to the floor of the Convention as tolerated t commissioners, and were regarded by some as spies. In this matter, as in others, the proceedings were
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 3: assembling of Congress.--the President's Message. (search)
unscrupulous of the conspirators in that State), in the Secession Convention, is not an event of a day. It is not any thing produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the non-execution of the Fugitive Slave Law. It is a matter which has been gathering head for thirty years. . . . In regard to the Fugitive Slave Law, I myself doubted its constitutionality, and doubted it on the floor of the Senate, when I was a member of that body. 1850-1851. The States, acting in their sovereign capacity, Lawrence M Keitt. should be responsible for the rendition of fugitive slaves. That was our best security. --It is no spasmodic effort, said Francis S. Parker, another member of the Convention, that has come suddenly upon us; it has been gradually culminating for a long period of thirty years. --As my friend (Mr. Parker) has said, spoke John A. Inglis, another member of the Convention, most of us have had this matter under consideration for the last twenty years. And Lawrence M. Keitt, the supporte
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 17: events in and near the National Capital. (search)
erent companies:--Colonel, Edward F. Jones, Lowell; Lieutenant-Colonel, Walter Shattuck, Groton; Major, Benj. F. Watson, Lawrence; Adjutant, Alpha B. Farr, Lowell; Quartermaster, James Monroe, Cambridge; Paymaster, Rufus L. Plaisted, Lowell; Surgeon,, Captain, A. S. Follansbee; Company D, Lowell, Captain, J. W. Hart; Company E, Acton, Captain, David Totter; Company F, Lawrence, Captain, B. F. Chadbourne; Company H, Lowell, Captain, Jona. Ladd; Company I, Lawrence, Captain, John Pickering. ThLawrence, Captain, John Pickering. This regiment had been the recipient of the most marked attention all the way from Boston. They were greeted by crowds of cheering citizens everywhere; and when they left New York to cross the Jersey City Ferry, full fifteen thousand citizens accompantered his breast and passed downwards in his body. It evidently came from a window above him. and Sumner H. Needham, of Lawrence, a plasterer by trade, who was mortally wounded, were the slain of the New England troops in Baltimore. I pray you, cau
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
See Wyman, 268. 42. Samuel, s. of Nehemiah (16), m. first Hannah Hartwell. Hannah, W. of Samuel (Nehemiah's ), aet. 19, was bap. Pct. ch. 17 May, 1761, where he and w. Hannah (late Hartwell ) had o. c. 10 May, 1761. He had Samuel, b. 1 Dec. 1760, bap. 17 May, 1761; Hannah, b. 18, bap. 24 July, 1763 (twin), m. William Cutter, 29 Apr. 1783 (par. 31); Elizabeth (twin with Hannah), b. 18, bap. 24 July, 1763, m. William Whittemore, 2 Nov. 1783; Mary Bowman, b. 13, bap. 16 Mar. 1766, m. Isaac Lawrence, 13 Feb. 1791—perhaps the Mrs. Mary Bowman Cutter, d. 6 Jan. 1803, a. 37; Joseph, b.—Nov., bap. 10 Nov. 1776. Hannah, w. of Samuel, d. 15 Feb. 1799, a. 56 (g. s.). He was a private soldier from Cambridge in the French War and Pct. collector, 1773, 1774. He rem. to Charlestown, where, aged 62, he m. Hannah Dunklee in Jan. 1803. See Wyman, 268-9. 43. William, s. of Nehemiah (16), m. Ruth Harrington. Wil-Liam, Lieut., and Ruth, w. of Lieut. William, were adm. Pct. ch. 8 Apr. 1781.