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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 5 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Braxton, Carter, 1736-1797 (search)
Braxton, Carter, 1736-1797 A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Newington, Va., Sept. 10. 1736; was educated at the College of William and Mary in 1756, and resided in England until 1760. He was a distinguished member and patriot in the Virginia House of Burgesses in supporting the resolutions of Patrick Henry in 1765, and in subsequent assemblies dissolved by the governor. He remained in the Virginia Assembly until royal rule ceased in that colony, and was active in measures for defeating the schemes of Lord Dunmore. Braxton was in the convention at Richmond in 1775, for devising measures for the defence of the colony and the public good; and in December he became the successor of Peyton Randolph in Congress. He remained in that body to vote for and sign the Declaration of Independence. In 1786, after serving in the Virginia legislature, he became one of the executive council. He died in Richmond, Va., Oct. 10, 1797.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Price, Richard 1723-1791 (search)
Price, Richard 1723-1791 Clergyman; born in Tynton, Glamorganshire, Wales, Feb. 23, 1723; was a dissenting minister, connected with churches at Stoke-Newington and Hackney, as pastor and preacher, from 1743 until a short time before his death. He wrote much on morals, politics, and political and social economy. His Appeal on the subject of the National debt is said to have been the foundation of Pitt's sinking-fund scheme. In 1776 he published Observations on Civil liberty and the justice and policy of the War with America. It was a powerful plea for justice and right, and 60,000 copies were distributed. The corporation of London gave him a vote of thanks and the freedom of the city; and in 1778 the American Congress invited him to become a citizen of the United States, and to aid them in the management of their finances, promising him a liberal remuneration. In 1783 Yale College conferred on him the honorary degree of Ll.D., and in 1784 he published Observations on the i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Hampshire, (search)
my's port laden with supplies. The matter is brought into court, and the United States court of appeals reverses the judgment of the State court and awards $32,721.36 damages to the owners of the Susanna. The legislature of New Hampshire, in special session, prepares a spirited remonstrance against this action as a violation of State independence and an unwarrantable encroachment in the courts of the United States ......1794 Bridge constructed over the Piscataqua near Portsmouth, from Newington to Durham, nearly half a mile in length......1794 First New Hampshire turnpike, extending from Concord to the Piscataqua bridge, chartered......1796 Keene sentinel established at Keene......March, 1799 New Hampshire Missionary Society, the earliest charitable society of a religious character in the State, incorporated......1801 Farmer's cabinet published at Amherst......Nov. 11, 1802 First cotton factory in State erected at New Ipswich......1803 Piscataqua Evangelical mag
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 7: the World's Convention.—1840. (search)
with the beloved bard of negro freedom, James Montgomery. Thence the route led to York and to Newcastle-on-Tyne, for the sake of visiting Harriet Martineau, then writing the Hour and the man, at Tynemouth. In the early morning of July 20, the fellow-travellers, less Thompson and Remond, who had gone before, mounted the coach at the Turf Hotel for Melrose, where the Abbey was explored in the twilight. On the following day they arrived at Thompson's door in Edinburgh. 8 Duncan Street, Newington. So far from being allowed to rest, they were at once drawn into a fresh round of private entertainment and public meetings. In the afternoon of July 21, they dined with Dr. Beilby, a leading physician of the town, having as fellow-guests his more distinguished medical brother Dr. John Abercrombie, and Adam Black, of the Quarterly Review. In the evening they were impressed both as spectators and as speakers for a Rechabite teetotal festival in Dun Edin Hall: W. L. Garrison t
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 14: Poe (search)
in whose family he lived, ostensibly as an adopted child, until 1827. In his sixth year he attended for a short time the school of William Ewing in Richmond. In the summer of 1815 he went with his foster-father to England, and for the next five years, with the exception of a few months spent in Scotland shortly after reaching England, he lived in London, attending first a boarding school kept by the Misses Dubourg in Sloane Street, and later the academy of the Rev. John Bransby in Stoke Newington. He impressed Bransby as a quick and clever boy, though embarrassed by an extravagant amount of pocket-money; and John Allan wrote of him in 1818 that he was a fine boy and read Latin pretty sharply. In 1816 Allan described him as thin as a razor, but in 1819 he wrote that he was growing wonderfully. On his return to Richmond in the summer of 1820, Poe entered an academy kept, first, by Joseph H. Clarke and, later, by William Burke, under whom he continued his work in the languages,
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 6: third mission to England.—1846. (search)
Parry [Lib. 17: 51]. On that occasion we had not only a very interesting account of the anti-slavery movement and its prominent advocates in America, but our friend Douglass, who had a fine voice, sang a number of negro melodies, Mr. Garrison sang several anti-slavery pieces, and our grave friend, H. C. Wright, sang an old Indian war song. Other friends contributed to the amusement of the evening, and among them our friend Vincent sang The Marseillaise. At Henry Vincent's home at Stoke Newington, Mr. Garrison spent a memorable day in company with Wright, Douglass, and James Haughton of Dublin—one of the staunchest and most influential Irish abolitionists (Lib. 16: 146). On the 10th of August, everything was in readiness for the formation of an Anti-Slavery League, to cooperate with the American Anti-Slavery Society. This took Lib. 16.146. place at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. The preamble of union expressly indicated its transatlantic affiliation and was followed by these a