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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Ancestry-birth-boyhood (search)
ia, my grandfather, Captain Noah Grant, married a Miss [Rachel] Kelly [in 1792], and in 1799 he emigrated again, this time to Ohio, and settled where the town of Deerfield now stands. He had now five children, including Peter, a son by his first marriage. My father, Jesse R. Grant, was the second child-oldest son, by the second mof his second wife, he went, with the two youngest children, to live with his son Peter, in Maysville. The rest of the family found homes in the neighborhood of Deerfield, my father in the family of Judge [George] Tod, the father of the late Governor [David] Tod, of Ohio. His industry and independence of character were such, thats half-brother, Peter Grant, who, though not a tanner himself, owned a tannery in Maysville, Kentucky. Here he learned his trade, and in a few years returned to Deerfield and worked for, and lived in the family of a Mr. [Owen] Brown, the father of John Brown-whose body lies mouldering in the grave, while his soul goes marching on.
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
y destruction by it, it was not to be evaded or shunned, and, therefore, was not to be dreaded. When the evenings were dark, her labors with her needle began earlier. In the following winter, my mother and my uncle provided a home for me in Deerfield, with Aunt Polly Dame,--no relative of mine save that she was aunt to all the world. She was a good old lady taken care of by her daughter, and sat in the corner spinning flax on what was called the little wheel, to distinguish it from the gre in 1849, at the age of ninety-nine and a half years, and was able, the summer before she died, to mount her own horse without assistance, and ride out some three miles to visit a neighbor. I attended a partially private school or academy at Deerfield until I was eight years old. In this school almost every branch of practical learning was taught except the languages. There were many young men in the school, and some young women. My teacher was Mr. James Hersey, afterwards postmaster of Ma
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
s to proceed through Baltimore, 176. Davis, Flag-Officer, before Vicksburg, 461-462. Dean, Hon., Benjamin, referred to, 1028. Dean, Judge, Henry Clay, threatening speech of, 756. Deep Bottom, expedition against, C93-694, 717-718. Deerfield, attend school at, 49. Dekay, Capt. Sidney B., in New Orleans mob, 375; brings information to Butler, 733; conducts Butler to Fort Harrison, 734-735; accompanies Butler to the opera, 761; reference to, 764; carries message to Porter, 791; trcount of attack at Drury's Bluff, 663-664; censures Butler, 664; captured, 664; succeeds General Ord at Fort Harrison, 734. Heidseick, Charles, acts as spy, 391. Hendricks, at Chicago National Convention, 982. Hersey, James, teacher at Deerfield, 49-50. Herald, New York, Grant in, 863. Heywood, Constable, shot by Carey, 1026. Hicks, Governor, of Maryland, correspondence with, 194; interview with, 195; correspondence with, 208, 211. Hildreth, Dr., Israel, father-in-law of Be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anne, Queen, (search)
aty of peace with New England (July, 1703); but the French induced them to violate it; and before the close of that summer a furious Indian raid occurred along the whole frontier from Casco to Wells. So indiscriminate was the slaughter that even Quakers were massacred. The immediate cause of this outbreak seems to have been an attack upon and plunder of the trading-post of the young Baron de Castine, at the mouth of the Penobscot. In March, 1704, a party of French and Indians attacked Deerfield, on the Connecticut River, killed forty of the inhabitants, burned the village, and carried away 112 captives. Similar scenes occurred elsewhere. Remote settlements were abandoned, and fields were cultivated only by armed parties united for common defence. This state of things became insupportable, and in the spring of 1707 Massachusetts. Rhode Island, and New Hampshire prepared to chastise the Indians in the east. Rhode Island had not suffered, for Massachusetts sheltered that colony,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893 (search)
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893 Lawyer and soldier; born in Deerfield, N. H., Nov. 5, 1818; was graduated at Waterville College, Me., in 1838: was admitted to the bar in 1841; and continued the practice until 1861, with a high reputation as a criminal lawyer. He was an active politician in the Democratic party until its Benjamin Franklin Butler. disruption at Charleston in 1860; and he had served as a member of both Houses of the Massachusetts legislature. As brigadier-general of militia he hastened towards Washington, on the call of the President, with troops, in April, 1861, and landed at Annapolis. He was placed in command of the Department of Annapolis, which included Baltimore (q. v.). At the middle of May he was made major-general of volunteers, and put in command of the Department of Virginia, with headquarters at Fort Monroe, where he held as contraband all fugitive slaves. In August (1861), an expedition which he commanded captured forts Hatteras and Clarke;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deerfield, (search)
rible slaughter occurred a mile from the town, Sept. 18 (O. S.), 1675. The Indians had burned Deerfield and murdered some of the inhabitants. The survivors fled, leaving about 3,000 bushels of whea part of a force at Hadley, was sent with eighty men to secure this grain. As they approached Deerfield they fell into an Indian ambush, and the captain and seventy-six men were slain. They sold thndians, under Maj. Hertel de Rouville, who had travelled on snow-shoes from Canada, appreached Deerfield. The chief object of the expedition was to procure a little bell hung over the meeting-house he Indians to accompany him, under De Rouville, to get the bell. When the invaders approached Deerfield, the snow lay 4 feet deep in that region, and was covered by a hard crust that bore the men. Uhangs. Among the victims of this foray were Rev. John Williams (q. v.), pastor of the church at Deerfield, and his family, who were carried into captivity, excepting two children, who were murdered.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hildreth, Richard 1807-1865 (search)
Hildreth, Richard 1807-1865 Historian; born in Deerfield, Mass., June 22, 1807; graduated at Harvard College in 1829; studied and practised law and wrote for newspapers and magazines until 1832, when he began to edit the Boston Atlas. In the course of many years Mr. Hildreth wrote several books and pamphlets, chiefly on the subject of slavery, to which system he was opposed. He resided on a plantation in the South in 1834-35; in Washington, D. C., as correspondent of the Atlas, in 1837-38, when he resumed his editorial post on that paper; and resided in Demerara, British Guiana, from 1840 to 1843, when he edited, successively, two newspapers there. Mr. Hildreth's principal work was a History of the United States, in 6 volumes (1849-56). He was one of the editors of the New York Tribune for several years. In 1861 President Lincoln appointed him United States consul at Trieste, but failing health compelled him to resign the post. and he died in Florence, Italy, July 11, 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoyt, Epaphras 1765-1850 (search)
Hoyt, Epaphras 1765-1850 Historian; born in Deerfield, Mass., Dec. 31, 1765; was major-general of the Massachusetts militia. His publications include Treatise on the military art; Military instructions; Cavalry discipline; Antiquarian researches, etc. He died in Deerfield, Mass., Feb. 8, 1850. Hoyt, Epaphras 1765-1850 Historian; born in Deerfield, Mass., Dec. 31, 1765; was major-general of the Massachusetts militia. His publications include Treatise on the military art; Military instructions; Cavalry discipline; Antiquarian researches, etc. He died in Deerfield, Mass., Feb. 8, 1850.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Laughlin, James Laurence 1850- (search)
Laughlin, James Laurence 1850- Political economist; born in Deerfield, O., April 2, 1850; graduated at Harvard University in 1873; was an instructor in Hopkinson's Classical School, Boston, in 1873-78; instructor of political economy in Harvard in 1878-83; then assistant professor of that study there; professor of the same in Cornell University in 1890-92; in the latter year became head Professor of Political Economy in the University of Chicago. In 1894-95 he prepared a scheme of monetary reform for the government of San Domingo, which later adopted it. He was a member of the monetary commission appointed in 1897 by the Indianapolis Monetary Conference. He is the author of Mill's political Economy abridged and added to; Study of political Economy; History of bimetallism in the United States; Facts about money; and Elements of political Economy. He is the editor of the Journal of political Economy.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Philip, King (search)
necticut was desolated. Twenty Englishmen sent to treat with the Nipmucks were nearly all treacherously slain (Aug. 12, 1675) near Brookfield. They fired that village, but it was partially saved by a shower of rain. Early in September (12th) Deerfield was laid in ashes. On the same Sabbath-day Hadley, farther down the river, was attacked while the people were worshipping. A Defending a garrison House against attack. venerable-looking man, with white hair and beard, suddenly appeared, witfe, William). Over other settlements the scourge swept mercilessly. Many valiant young men, under Captain Beers, were slain in Northfield (Sept. 23), and others— the flower of Essex —under Captain Lathrop, were butchered by 1,000 Indians near Deerfield. Encouraged by these successes, Philip now determined to attack Hatfield, the chief white settlement above Springfield. The Springfield Indians joined him, and with 1,000 warriors he fell upon the settlement (Oct. 29); but the English being p
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