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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Samuel , 1722 -1803 (search)
Annapolis,
City. county seat of Anne Arundel county, and capital of the State of Maryland: on the Severn River, 20 miles south by east of Baltimore: is the seat of the United States Naval Academy and of St. John's College; population in 1890, 7,604; 1900, 8,402.
Puritan refugees from Massachusetts, led by Durand, a ruling elder, settled on the site of Annapolis in 1649, and, in imitation of Roger Williams, called the place Providence.
The next year a commissioner of Lord Baltimore organized there the county of Anne Arundel, so named in compliment to Lady Baltimore, and Providence was called Anne Arundel Town.
A few years later it again bore the name of Providence, and became the seat of Protestant influence and of a Protestant government, disputing the legislative authority with the Roman Catholic government at the ancient capital, St. Mary's. In 1694 the latter was abandoned as the capital of the province, and the seat of government was established on the Severn.
The villag
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berkeley , Sir William , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blackstone , William , -1675 (search)
Blackstone, William, -1675
Pioneer, supposed to have been graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1617, and to have become a minister in the Church of England.
In 1623 he removed from Plymouth to the peninsula of Shawmut, where Boston now stands, and was living there in 1630, when Governor Winthrop arrived at Charlestown.
On April 1. 1633, he was given a grant of fifty acres. but not liking his Puritan neighbors he sold his estate in 1634.
He then moved to a place a few miles north of Providence.
locating on the river which now bears his name.
He is said to have planted the first orchard in Rhode Island, and also the first one in Massachusetts.
He was the first white settler in Rhode Island, but took no part in the founding of the colony.
The cellar of the house where he lived is still shown, and a little hill near by where he was accustomed to read is known as Study Hill.
He died in Rehoboth Mass., May 26, 1675.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Episcopacy in America . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Free thought. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grady , Henry Woodfen 1851 -1892 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Higginson , Francis 1588 - (search)
Higginson, Francis 1588-
Clergyman; born in England in 1588; was an eloquent Puritan divine, and accepted an invitation to the new Puritan settlement at Salem, to which place he emigrated in the summer of 1629, and where he died Aug. 6, 1630.
His son John succeeded, became a teacher, chaplain of the fort at Saybrook, one of the seven pillars of the church at Guildford, and pastor of his father's church at Salem in 1660, where he continued until his death, Dec. 9, 1708.
Francis HigginsoPuritan settlement at Salem, to which place he emigrated in the summer of 1629, and where he died Aug. 6, 1630.
His son John succeeded, became a teacher, chaplain of the fort at Saybrook, one of the seven pillars of the church at Guildford, and pastor of his father's church at Salem in 1660, where he continued until his death, Dec. 9, 1708.
Francis Higginson was among the carefully selected company of pioneers in the founding of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, who landed at Naumkeag (afterwards named Salem), with John Endicott, in 1629.
It was late in June when the little company arrived at their destination, where the corruptions of the English Church were never to be planted, and Higginson served the people in spiritual matters faithfully until his death.
With the same company came two excellent brothers, John and Samuel Browne.
Both were m
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), High commission , Court of (search)
High commission, Court of
An ecclesiastical tribunal created by Queen Elizabeth (1559), by which all spiritual jurisdiction was vested in the crown.
It was designed as a check upon Puritan and Roman Catholic Separatists.
Originally it had no power to fine or imprison, but under Charles I, and Archbishop Laud it assumed illegal powers, and became an instrument of persecution of the non-conformists of every kind.
It was complained of to Parliament, and was abolished in 1641, at the beginning of the Civil War in England.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huntington , Jedediah Vincent 1815 -1862 (search)
Huntington, Jedediah Vincent 1815-1862
Author; born in New York City, Jan. 20, 1815; graduated at the New York University in 1835; and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1838; became a Protestant Episcopal minister in 1841, and a Roman Catholic in 1849.
His publications include Alban, or the history of a young Puritan; America discovered, etc. He also translated Franchere's Narrative of a voyage to the Northwest coast of America.
He died in Paris, France, March 10, 1862.