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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Acquisition of Territory. (search)
Acquisition of Territory.
The original territory of the United States as acknowledged by the treaty with Great Britain, in 1783, consisted of the following thirteen States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
The boundaries of many of these States, as constituted by their charters, extended to the Pacific Ocean; but in practice they ceased at the Mississippi.
Beyond that river the territory belonged, by discovery and settlement, to the-King of Spain.
All the territory west of the present boundaries of the States was ceded by them to the United States in the order named: Virginia, 1784: Massachusetts, 1785; Connecticut, 1786 and 1800; South Carolina, 1787; North Carolina, 1790: Georgia, 1802.
This ceded territory comprised part of Minnesota, all of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio (see Northwest Territory
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Algonquian, or Algonkian, Indians , (search)
Allen, Ethan, 1737-
military officer; born in Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 1737.
In 1762 he was one of the proprietors of the ironworks at Salisbury, Conn. In 1766) he went to the then almost unsettled domain between the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain, where he was a bold leader of the settlers on the New Hampshire grants in their controversy with the authorities of New York.
(See New Hampshire.) During this period several pamphlets were written by Allen, in his peculiar style, which forcibly illustrated the injustice of the action of the New York authorities.
The latter declared Allen an outlaw.
and offered a reward of £ 150 for his arrest.
He defied his enemies, and persisted in his course.
Early in May, 1775, he led a few men and took the fortress of Ticonderoga.
His followers were called Green Mountain boys.
His success as a partisan caused him to be sent twice into Canada, during the latter half of 1775, to win the people over to the republican cause.
In the la
Atherton gag, the,
The name applied to a resolution introduced into the national House of Representatives by Charles G. Atherton, of New Hampshire, providing that all petitions and papers relating to the subject of slavery should be laid on the table without being debated, printed, or referred.
The resolution, which was designed to prevent discussion of the slavery question, was passed Dec. 11, 1838, and was rescinded in 1845.
Baker, remember,
A captain of Green Mountain boys (q. v.); born in Woodbury, Conn., about 1740.
He went to the New Hampshire Grants in 1764, before the Allens took up their abode there.
He was a soldier in the French and Indian War, and was in the fierce battle at Ticonderoga in 1758.
He settled at Arlington, on the Grants, and was very active with Ethan Allen in resisting the claims of New York to Vermont territory.
Baker was arrested, and was cruelly treated while a prisoner, by the New-Yorkers.
The government of that province had outlawed him and set a price upon his head.
Captain Baker was with Allen when he took Ticonderoga, in May, 1775.
He was killed, while on a scout in the Continental service, by the Indians on the Sorel, the outlet of Lake Champlain, in August, 1775.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , Josiah , 1729 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Belcher , Jonathan , 1681 -1757 (search)