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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
that the seats were disputed at the opening of Congress (as there were five contested seats, and as the House stood, without New Jersey, 118 Whigs to 119 Democrats, success to either party in this controversy meant a control of the House; hence the controversy)......Dec. 2, 1839 [This governmental flurry is known as the Broad seal War. ] New Jersey Historical Society founded at Trenton......Feb. 27. 1840 Constitutional convention assembles at Trenton, May 14, completes its labors, June 29, and the constitution is ratified by the people......Aug. 13, 1844 Town superintendent of schools first authorized......April 7, 1846 State union convention at Trenton resolves in favor of a compromise between the Northern and Southern States......Dec. 11, 1860 Committee on national affairs in the legislature report joint resolutions endorsing the Crittenden compromise, which were adopted......Jan. 25, 1861 Legislature appropriates $2,000,000, and an annual tax of $100,000 for m
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
eebooter, appointed lieutenant-colonel of the royal militia in June, 1781, captures forty-four persons at Chatham Court-house while a courtmartial is in progress, July 16; besieges the garrisoned house of Col. Philip Alston, of Chatham, Aug. 8; captures forty-four Whigs under Colonel Wade, and disperses his troops at McFalls Mills, Sept. 1, and fights the Whigs at Lundley's Mill, Chatham county......Sept. 14, 1781 Maj. James H. Craig, who had occupied Wilmington with British troops since June 29, whence he directed raids into the surrounding country, receiving news of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, evacuates the place.......Nov. 18, 1781 Legislature grants Maj.-Gen. Nathanael Greene 25,000 acres of State land, afterwards located on Duck River, and 640 acres to each private, with larger grants to officers in the Continental army, North Carolina troops......1782 Thomas Hart Benton, statesman, son of Jesse Benton, private secretary of Governor Tryon, born near Hillsbor
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