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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alexander , Archibald 1772 - (search)
Alexander, Archibald, 1772-
Theologian; born in Augusta (now Rockbridge) county.
Va., April 17, 1772; was of Scotch descent, and became teacher in a Virginian family at the age of seventeen years. In 1791 he entered the ministry as an itinerant missionary in his native State.
In 1789 he became president of Hampden-Sidney College; left it in 1801; married a daughter of Rev. Mr. Waddell, the celebrated blind preacher in Virginia, and afterwards (1807) became pastor of a Presbyterian church in Philadelphia.
In 1810 he was elected president of Union College, Georgia, but did not accept it. On the establishment of the Theological Seminary at Princeton.
N. J., in 1811, Dr. Alexander was chosen its first professor, which position he held until his death.
Oct. 22, 1851.
Among his numerous writings his Outlines of the evidences of Christianity, used as a text-book in several colleges, is most extensively known.
It has passed through many editions in various languages.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Armstrong , John 1758 -1843 (search)
Armstrong, John, 1758-1843
Military officer; born in Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1758.
While a student at Princeton, in 1775, he became a volunteer in Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, and was soon afterwards made an aide-de-camp to General Mercer.
He was afterwards placed on the staff of General Gates, and remained so from the beginning of that officer's campaign against Burgoyne until the end of the war, having the rank of major.
Holding a facile pen, he was employed to write the famous
John Armstrong. Newburgh addresses.
They were powerfully and eloquently written.
After the war he was successively Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; and in 1784 he conducted operations against the settlers in the Wyoming Valley.
The Continental Congress in 1787 appointed him one of the judges for the Northwestern Territory, but he declined.
Two years later he married a sister of Chancellor Livingston, removed to New York, purchased a farm within the precincts of the ol
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bainbridge , William 1774 -1833 (search)
Bainbridge, William, 1774-1833
Naval officer; born in Princeton, N. J., May 7, 1774.
At the age of sixteen years he went to sea, and at nineteen commanded a ship.
On the reorganization of the navy in 1798 he was appointed a lieutenant.
He and his vessel and crew were captured in the West Indies by a French cruiser in September of that year, but were released in December, when, returning home, he was promoted to the command of a brig.
In May, 1800, he was commissioned a captain, and in the ship Washington be carried tribute from the United States to the Dey of Algiers, by whom he was treated with much insolence.
By threats of capture and a declaration of war by the Algerine ruler, he was compelled to take an embassy to Constantinople for that petty despot.
On his return, with power given him by the
William Bainbridge. Sultan, Bainbridge frightened the insolent Dey, compelling him to release all Christian prisoners then in his possession.
He returned to the United States i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barber , Francis 1751 - (search)
Barber, Francis, 1751-
Military officer; born in Princeton, N. J., in 1751; was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1767, and became rector of an academy at Elizabeth, N. J., and pastor of the Presbyterian Church there in 1769.
Leaving these posts, he joined the New Jersey line in the Continental army as major, in February, 1776.
In November he was made a lieutenant-colonel, and was afterwards assistant inspector-general under Baron Steuben.
He was active in several battles until 1779, when he was adjutant-general in Sullivan's campaign, and was wounded in the battle of Newtown.
In 1781 he was successful in quelling the mutiny of Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops.
He was with the army at Newburg in 1783, and was killed by the falling of a tree while he was riding in the edge of a wood, Feb. 11 the same year.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bayard , James Ashton 1767 - (search)
Bayard, James Ashton, 1767-
Statesman; born in Philadelphia, July 28, 1767; of Huguenot descent; was graduated at Princeton in 1784; studied law under Gen. Joseph Reed; was admitted to the bar in 1787, and, settling in Delaware, soon acquired a high reputation as a lawyer.
Mr. Bayard was a member of Congress from 1797 to 1803, and a conspicuous leader of the Federal party.
In 1804 he was elected to the United States Senate, in which he distinguished himself in conducting the impeachment of Senator Blount.
He was chiefly instrumental in securing the election of Jefferson over Burr in 1800; and made, in the House of Representatives, in 1802, a powerful defence of the existing judiciary system, which was soon overthrown.
He was in the Senate when war was declared against Great Britain in 1812.
In May, 1813, he left the United States on a mission to St. Petersburg, to treat for peace with Great
James Ashton Bayard. Britain under Russian mediation.
The mission was fruitless.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beatty , John 1749 -1826 (search)
Beatty, John, 1749-1826
Physician; born in Bucks county. Pa., Dec. 19, 1749 was graduated at Princeton in 1769; studied medicine with Dr. Rush; took up arms, and became a colonel in the Pennsylvania line.
He was made prisoner at Fort Washington, and suffered much.
In 1778 he succeeded Elias Boudinot as commissary-general of prisoners.
but resigned in 1780.
He was a delegate in the Congress of the Confederation, 1783-85, and of the national Congress. 1793-95.
He was secretary of state for New Jersey for ten years--1795--1805.
He died at Trenton, N. J., April 30, 1826.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brackenridge , Hugh Henry 1748 -1816 (search)
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 1748-1816
Jurist; born in Scotland in 1748; was graduated at Princeton in 1771, in the same class with James Madison.
He and Philip Freneau together wrote The rising glory of America, a dialogue which formed a part of the graduating exercises.
During the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794 he used all his influence to bring about a settlement between the government and the rebels.
He also wrote Incidents of the insurrection in Western Pennsylvania in defence of his action.
He died in Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1816.
Caldwell, James 1734-
Clergyman; born in Charlotte county, Va., in April, 1734.
Graduating at Princeton in 1759, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Elizabethtown in 1762.
Zealously espousing the revolutionary cause, he was much disliked by the Tories.
Appointed chaplain of a New Jersey brigade, he was for a time in the Mohawk Valley.
In 1780 his church and residence were burned by a party of British and Tories; and the same year a British incursion from Staten Island pillaged the village of Connecticut Farms, where his family were temporarily residing.
A soldier shot his wife through a window while she was sitting on a bed with her babe.
At that time Mr. Caldwell was in Washington's camp at Morristown.
In the successful defence of Springfield, N. J., June 23, 1780, when the wadding for the soldiers' guns gave out, he brought the hymn-books from the neighboring church and shouted, Now put Watts into them, boys.
In an altercation at Elizabethtown Point with an A