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Coree Indians,
A small tribe of Algonquians on the coast of upper North Carolina.
These and the Cheraws and other smaller tribes occupied lands once owned by the powerful Hatteras tribe.
They were allies of the Tuscaroras in an attack upon the English in 1711, and were defeated; and they have since disappeared from the face of the earth, and their dialect has been forgotten.
Fry, Joseph 1711-1794
Military officer; born in Andover, Mass., in April, 1711; was an ensign in the army that captured Louisburg in 1745, and a colonel in the British army at the capture of Fort William Henry by Montcalm in 1757.
He escaped and reached Fort Edward.
In 1775 Congress appointed him brigadier-general, but in the spring of 1776 he resigned on account of infirmity.
He died in Fryeburg, Me., in 1794.
Naval officer; born in Louisiana, about 1828: joined the navy in 1841; was promoted lieutenant in September, 1855; resigned when Louisiana seceded; was unable to secure a command in the Confederate navy, but was commissioned an officer in the army.
In 1873 he became captain of the Virginius, known as a Cuban war steamer.
His ship was captured by a Spanish war vessel, and he, with many of his crew, was shot as a pirate in Santiago de Cuba, Nov. 7, 1873.
See filibuster.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gridley , Richard 1711 -1796 (search)
Gridley, Richard 1711-1796
Military officer; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 3, 1711; was a skilful engineer and artillerist; and chief engineer in the siege of Louisburg, in 1745.
He entered the service, as colonel of infantry, in 1755; was in the expedition to Crown Point, under General Winslow, planned the fortifications at Lake George (Fort George and Fort William Henry); served under Amherst; and was with Wolfe at Quebec.
He retired as a British officer on half-pay for life.
Espousing the cause of the patriots, he was appointed chief engineer of the army that gathered at Cambridge; planned the works on Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights; and was in the battle there, in which he was wounded.
He was active in planning the fortifications around Boston, and in September, 1775, he was commissioned a major-general in the provincial army of Massachusetts.
He was commander of the Continental artillery until superseded by Knox.
He died in Stoughton, Mass., June 20, 1796.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huntington , Ebenezer 1754 -1834 (search)
Huntington, Ebenezer 1754-1834
Military officer; born in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 26, 1754; graduated at Yale College in 1775, and joined the patriot army as lieutenant in Wyllys's regiment.
He served under Heath, Parsons, and Watts, and commanded the regiment of the latter in Rhode Island in 1778 as lieutenantcolonel.
At Yorktown he commanded a battalion of infantry, and served on General Lincoln's staff until the end of the war, when he was made a general of the Connecticut militia.
Huntington was named by Washington for brigadier-general in 1798.
In 1810-11 and 1817-19 he was a member of Congress.
He died in Norwich, June 17, 1834.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hutchinson , Thomas 1711 -1780 (search)
Hutchinson, Thomas 1711-1780
Royal governor; born in Boston, Sept. 9, 1711; graduated at Harvard College in 1727, and, after engaging unsuccessfully in commerce, studied law, and began its practice in Boston.
That city sent him to London as its agent in important business; and he represented it in the general court for ten years. In 1752 he was chosen judge of probate; was a councillor from 1749 to 1766; was lieutenant-governor from 1758 to 1771; and was made chief-justice
Thomas Hutchinson of the province in 1768.
At that time he held four high offices under the King's appointment, and he naturally sided with the crown in the rising disputes, and became very obnoxious to the republicans.
When, in 1769, Governor Bernard was recalled, Hutchinson became acting-governor of Massachusetts, and was commissioned governor in 1771.
He was continually engaged in controversies with the popular Assembly, and often with his council.
The publication of some of his letters (1773), whic
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Muhlenberg , Henry Melchior 1711 -1787 (search)
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior 1711-1787
Clergyman; born in Eimbeck, Hanover, Germany, Sept. 6, 1711; was the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, having come to Philadelphia as a missionary in the fall of 1742.
He afterwards lived at Trappe, Montgomery co., Pa. He was devoted to the service of building up churches, relieving the destitute, and doing his Master's business continually, travelling as far as Georgia.
In 1748 he was chiefly instrumental in organizing the first Lutheran synod in America, that of Pennsylvania.
He died in Trappe, Pa., Oct. 7, 1787.