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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dennie, Joseph, 1768- (search)
Dennie, Joseph, 1768- Journalist; born in Boston, Aug. 30, 1768; graduated at Harvard in 1790; became a lawyer; but abandoned his profession for the pursuit of literature. He contributed articles to various newspapers, while yet practising law, over the signature of Farrago. In 1795 he became connected with a Boston weekly newspaper called The tablet. It survived only three months, when Dennie became the editor of the Farmer's weekly Museum, at Walpole, N. H., which acquired an extensive circulation. To it he contributed a series of attractive essays under the title of The lay preacher. These gave their author a high reputation and were extensively copied into the newspapers of the country. He went to Philadelphia in 1799, where he was confidential secretary to Timothy Pickering, then Secretary of State. In that place he remained for a few months, and after editing for a short time the United States gazette, he commenced, in conjunction with Asbury Dickens, the Portfolio, a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fessenden, Thomas Green 1771-1837 (search)
Fessenden, Thomas Green 1771-1837 Author; born in Walpole, N. H., April 22, 1771; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1796; began the practice of law in Bellows Falls, Vt., in 1812. His publications include Democracy unveiled; Laws of patents for New inventions, etc. He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 11, 1837.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Land companies. (search)
Stanwix, the banks of the Kanawha, flowing north at the foot of the great Alleghany ridge into the Ohio, began to attract settlers, and application was soon made to the British government by a company, of which Dr. Franklin, Sir William Johnson, Walpole (a wealthy London banker), and others were members, for that part of the newly acquired territory north of the Kanawha, and thence to the upper Ohio. They offered to refund the whole amount (about $50,000) which the government had paid the Indif state for the colonies, and the ministry finally agreed to it, but the troubles between the parent government and her children in America, then rapidly tending towards open war, prevented a completion of the scheme. Such was the origin of the Walpole, or Ohio Company, the Vandalia Company, and the Indiana Company, founded on a cession said to have been made by the Indians at the treaty of Fort Stanwix. These schemes of land speculators were dissipated by the same cause that arrested the co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stamp act, the (search)
ere introduced into England, in the reign of William and Mary, from Holland. From that time until now the system has been a favorite one in England for raising revenue. Each stamp represents a tax for a certain sum which must be paid to obtain it. A penalty is imposed upon those attempting to evade it, and the transaction in which it should have been used was declared invalid without it. A stamp duty had never been imposed in the colonies. In 1732 it was proposed, but the great minister, Walpole, said, I will leave the taxation of America to some of my successors who have more courage than I have. In 1739 Sir William Keith, governor of Pennsylvania, proposed such a tax in that province. Franklin thought it just, as he said in the convention at Albany in 1754: Lieutenant-governor De Lancey proposed it in New York in 1755; and in 1756 Governor Shirley, of Massachusetts, urged Parliament to adopt a stamp tax. In 1757 it was proposed to Pitt to tax the colonies. I will never burn m