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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
nnessee and Arkansas, whose central committee, called Grand council of the Mystic clan, is broken up by arrest of its leader......1834 [Murrell lived near Denmark, Madison co., Tenn. He was a man without fear, physical or moral. His favorite operations were horse-stealing and negrorunning. He promised negroes their freedom if they allowed him to conduct them North, selling them on the way by day and stealing them back by night, always murdering them in the end. He was captured by Virgil A. Stewart in 1834, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary, where he died.] Spanish pirates (twelve in number), for an act of piracy on board the brig Mexican; trial at Boston; seven found guilty, five acquitted......Nov. 11-25, 1834 Heresy trial; Rev. Lyman Beecher, Presbyterian, before the presbytery and synod of Cincinnati, on charges preferred by Dr. Wilson, of holding and teaching Pelagian and Arminian doctrines; acquitted......June 9 et seq., 1835 Rev. Albert Barnes, Presbyte
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tennessee, (search)
ernal improvements......Jan. 2, 1830 Joel Parrish, cashier of the State Bank, proves a defaulter for $200,000, and the bank wound up soon after......Jan. 3, 1830 Memphis Railroad chartered......December, 1831 Andrew Jackson re-elected President of the United States......Nov. 13, 1832 Conviction of John A. Murrell, of Madison county, the great western land pirate and leader of the mystic clan, a band of outlaws, horse thieves, and negro runners, who was brought to justice by Virgil A. Stewart......1834 Constitution framed by a convention which meets at Nashville, May 19, and completes its labors Aug. 30, 1834; ratified by a popular vote of 42,666 to 17,691......March 5-6, 1835 R. H. McEwen elected superintendent of public schools......1836 During this and the previous year the State furnished 1,651 volunteers for the Florida War......1837 Felix Grundy appointed Attorney-General......July 5, 1838 National Whig Convention meets at Nashville......Aug. 17, 1840