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Law, John 1671-1729
Financier; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April, 1671.
He killed Edward Wilson in a duel, April, 1694, in London; was found guilty of murder, but fled to the Continent, where he became a gambler.
During his travels over Europe he was an enthusiastic advocate of original schemes for banking and for the issue of paper money.
With others, he established, in Paris, the Banque Generale, in May, 1716.
Notes were accepted in payment for taxes, and they even commanded a premium over specie.
About the same time he secured control of the French territory in America called Louisiana.
In 1717 the Compagnie d'occident was incorporated for the purposes of trade and colonization.
This enterprise became known as The Mississippi scheme, or The system.
Not long after this the same company got control of the East India and China companies, which were then called Compagnie des Indes.
It also absorbed the African Company, the mint, and the powers of the receivers-general
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Livingston , Edward 1764 - (search)
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 22
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, F. (search)
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], General Toombs Second Georgia Regiment . (search)
Impatience a Bad General.
The very worst counsellors for Generals in the field are an impatient populace.
If we are to believe General Scott, the calamity that has recently overwhelmed the grand Yankee army was caused by surrendering his own opinions of policy and obeying the orders of the Yankee mob, headed by Greeley, Blair, and Wilson. The mob, under these doughty commanders, drove him into a battle which was little better than slaughter and ruin.
A like impatience prevails among the Southern people for a forward movement upon Washington city.
This movement is doubtless in preparation; but we had better leave it to our Generals to choose the time and manner of making it. It is the highest wisdom to profit by an enemy's experience, and it would be as criminal as unheard of, if, after witnessing so signal an instance of ruin from fighting before being ready for it, we should commit the same blunder and run the hazard of the same discomfiture.
What though it might hav
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The great battle! (search)
Dead.
--Three of the Southern volunteers recently arrived here died yesterday.
Their names are given below.
Dulce et decorum est propatria mori, yet the loss of so many "good men and true" is not the least evil that human wickedness in high places has brought on our fatherland.
George H. Snoddy, a member of the 20th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, died in this city yesterday, at the house of Mr. Edward Wilson.
Deceased was a native of Buckingham county, aged about 40 years. His death was caused by exposure at Rich Mountain.--The body was sent up the canal by the packet last evening, to be interred in the family burying ground.
Died, also, yesterday, at the Hospital on Church Hill, of wounds received in the recent battle, Wm. R. Howell, a native of Gates county, N. C., a soldier in the 8th Regiment of N. C. State troops.
Died, also, yesterday, at the St. Charles Hotel, T. J. Thompson, of the 13th Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers, of wounds received in the late
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Partition of territory in the Old Union. (search)