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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
erests of the Dutch, September, 1609, and Hudson Bay in 1611. Sent adrift in an open boat by his crew and never heard of afterwards......1611 under the Continental Congress For previous history see each State separately. Pursuant to arrangements made by committees appointed in the colonies to confer regarding the interests and safety of the colonies, and termed committees of correspondence, delegates were chosen for the first Continental Congress, to meet at Philadelphia about Sept. 1, 1774. First Continental Congress meets at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia (forty-four delegates present, representing all the States except Georgia and North Carolina; see below)......Monday, Sept. 5, 1774 [Peyton Randolph, of Virginia, president; Charles Thomson, secretary. Mr. Thomson remained secretary of the Continental Congress from its beginning to its close, 1774-89.] Delegates to the first Continental Congress. Delegates.State Represented.Credentials Signed. 1. Maj. Joh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
y which gave him birth......June 1 1774 Fourth, or King's, Regiment and the 49th of his Majesty's forces land at Boston......June 14, 1774 Fifth and 38th arrive......July 5, 1774 Fifty-ninth arrives......Aug. 6, 1774 First Continental Congress meets at Philadelphia......Sept. 5, 1774 [Delegates from Massachusetts were Thomas Cushing, James Bowdoin, Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine.] Powder seized by British troops at Charlestown; about thirteen tons......Sept. 1, 1774 Governor Gage erects fortifications on the neck which commands the entrance to Boston......Sept. 5, 1774 A Provincial Congress formed in Massachusetts, at Salem, adjourns to Concord, and chooses John Hancock president, and Benjamin Lincoln, a farmer of Hingham and afterwards a major-general in the Revolutionary army, secretary......Oct. 1, 1774 [This Congress constituted a permanent committee of safety, with comprehensive military powers; it made a complete organization of the m
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
Cross Creek increased by the addition of 300 families of Scotch Highlanders, among them Flora McDonald (famous for aiding Charles Edward, the young pretender, to escape after his defeat at Culloden) and her husband, who settle near the present site of Fayetteville......1773 Col. John Harvey, former speaker of the Assembly, calls a convention to form a provincial congress, which meets at Newbern; Harvey is chosen speaker......Aug. 25, 1774 The provincial congress decides that after Sept. 1, 1774, all use of East India tea should be prohibited; that after Nov 1, 1774, importation of African slaves should cease; and that after Jan. 1, 1775, no East India or British goods should be imported......August, 1774 Richard Caswell, Joseph Hewes, and William Hooper, delegates to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia......Sept. 5, 1774 Committee of safety orders the return of a cargo of tea which had been shipped to William Hill; committee appointed......Nov. 23, 1774 Governor