Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894
Clergyman; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 8, 1814; graduated at Harvard in 1833; ordained a Unitarian pastor in 1840; president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and author of History of the battle of Bunker Hill, and biographies of John Mason, William Penn, Anne Hutchinson, Jared Sparks, Count Rumford, etc. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 20, 1894.
storm compelled the vessel to put back, while another vessel, under Capt. Thomas Dermer (q. v.), prosecuted the voyage.
Gorges sent out a party (1616), which encamped on the River Saco through the winter; and in 1619-20 Captain Dermer repeated the voyage.
The new charter obtained by the company created such a despotic monopoly that it was strongly opposed in and out of Parliament, and was finally dissolved in 1635.
Gorges had, meanwhile, prosecuted colonization schemes with vigor.
With John Mason and others he obtained grants of land (1622), which now compose a part of Maine and New Hampshire, and settlements were attempted there.
His son Robert was appointed general governor of the country, and a settlement was made (1624) on the site of York, Me. After the dissolution of the company (1635), Gorges, then a vigorous man of sixty years, was appointed (1637) governorgeneral of New England, with the powers of a palatine, and prepared to come to America, but was prevented by an accide
business above politics.
We have challenged your spinners in Massachusetts and your iron-makers in Pennsylvania.
We have learned that the $4,000,000 annually received from our cotton crop will make us rich, when the supplies that make it are home-raised.
We have reduced the commercial rate from 24 to 4 per cent., and are floating 4 per cent. bonds.
We have learned that one Northern emigrant is worth fifty foreigners, and have smoothed the path to the southward, wiped out the place where Mason and Dixon's line used to be, and hung out our latch-string to you and yours.
We have reached the point that marks perfect harmony in every household, when the husband confesses that the pies which his wife cooks are as good as those his mother used to bake; and we admit that the sun shines as brightly and the moon as softly as it did before the war.
We have established thrift in the city and country.
We have fallen in love with work.
We have restored comfort to homes from which culture
Mason, Jeremiah 1768-1848
Legislator; born in Lebanon, Conn., April 27, 1768; graduated at Yale College in 1788; admitted to the bar in 1791; and began practice in Westmoreland, N. H. He was Attorney-General in 1802, and from 1813 to 1817 was United States Senator.
For many years he was in the New Hampshire legislature, and was the author of
Statue of John Mason, of New Hampshire. an able report on the Virginia resolutions touching the Missouri compromise (q. v.). In 1837 he removed to Boston, where, until he was seventy years of age, he was extensively engaged in his profession; but he was little known, personally, out of New England.
His mind was clear, logical, and extremely vigorous, the characteristics of which, Webster said, were real greatness, strength, and sagacity.
He died in Boston, Oct. 14, 1848.
Mason, John 1610-
Founder of New Hampshire; born in Lynn Regis, Norfolk, England; commanded an expedition to subdue a rebellion in the Hebrides in 1610, and went to Newfoundland as governor inuired, with Gorges, another tract, which embraced the country around Lake Champlain; and in 1631 Mason, Gorges, and others formed a company for trading with the natives of New England and to make settlements there.
In 1633 Mason became a member of the council for New England and its vice-president.
He was also judge of the courts of Hampshire, England, in 1665, and in October was appointed vical of New England.
He died, in London, in December, 1635, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Mason's heirs sold his rights in the province of New Hampshire in 1691 to Samuel Allan.
Indian fithe civil war. He came to America in 1630, and was one of the first settlers of Dorchester.
Captain Mason led the white and Indian troops against the Pequods near the Mystic in 1637 (see Pequod War)
y yet established, and for that purpose he became associated with John Mason, a merchant (afterwards a naval commander, and secretary of the Plymouth Council of New England), and others.
Mason was a man of action, and well acquainted with all matters pertaining to settlements.
He eastward of the St Croix River, excepting a small part of Acadia.
Mason had already obtained a grant of land (March 2, 1621) extending fromeral fishing-stations, but no permanent settlement until 1629, when Mason built a house near the mouth of the Piscataqua, and called the placand Gorges had agreed to divide their domain at the Piscataqua, and Mason, obtaining a patent for his portion of the territory, named it New Wilderness, the Merrimac, and the Piscataqua, and founded Exeter.
Mason died in 1633, and his domain passed into the hands of his retainersew Hampshire had been reckoned to extend, according to the terms of Mason's grant, only 60 miles in the interior ; the commission of Benning
glish were joined by the Mohegans under Uncas, and the entire army was under the command of Capt. John Mason, who had been a soldier in the Netherlands.
The little army proceeded by water to the Narr and dusky, were marching swiftly to attack his stronghold near the waters of the Mystic River.
Mason was accompanied by Captain Underhill, another brave soldier.
When the invaders reached the folthily the little army crept up the hill, when an aroused sentinel awakened the sleepers
Where Mason's army landed. within the fort.
Mason and Underhill, approaching from opposite directions, bursMason and Underhill, approaching from opposite directions, burst in the sally-ports.
The terrified Indians rushed out, but were driven back by swords and musket-balls.
Their thatched wigwams were fired, and within an hour about 600 men, women, and children wer devil, exulted in this signal instance of the favor of Heaven.
the Lord was pleased, wrote Captain Mason, to smite our enemies in the hinder parts and give us their land for an inheritance.
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er to Windsor by this court.
Hartford was so named in horor of the Rev. Mr. Stone, who was born at Hartford, England.]
Wethersfield attacked by the Pequods, several killed......April, 1637
The court at Hartford, bent on offensive war against the Pequods, call for eightyeight men—forty-two from Hartford, thirty from Windsor, sixteen from Wethersfield......May 1, 1637
These are joined by Uncas, sachem of the Mohegans, with seventy warriors, at Say-Brook fort......May 15, 1637
Capt. John Mason, of Windsor, commanding the expedition, sails from Fort Say-Brook for Narraganset Bay, to surprise the Pequod fort......May 19, 1637
At Narraganset Bay about 200 Narraganset warriors join him. He approaches the Pequod fort on the evening of May 25, and next morning, at early light, he attacks and completely destroys it, together with about 600 Indians, men, women, and children, losing two killed and about twenty wounded......May 26, 1637
Court of Connecticut calls for forty more m
mith arrives at Monhegan from England.
Building seven boats, he explores the coast from Penobscot to Cape Cod, and makes a map of it, to which Prince Charles assigned the name of New England......April, 1614
War, famine, and pestilence depopulate the Indian territories in Maine during the years......1615-18
Plymouth Company receives a new patent to lands between 40° and 48°, and in length by the same breadth throughout the mainland from sea to sea ......Nov. 3, 1620
Gorges and Capt. John Mason procure of the Plymouth council a patent of all the country between the Merrimac and Sagadahoc, from the Atlantic to the rivers Canada and Iroquois, which they called The province of Laconia ......Aug. 10, 1622
Permanent settlement made at Monhegan......1622
Permanent settlement at Saco......1623
Gorges procures a patent from Plymouth council to 24,000 acres on each side of the Agamenticus (York) River, and plants a colony......1624
New Plymouth colony erects a tradinghouse
ed to the province at their expulsion, arrive......1755
Act to raise £ 40,000 for erecting Fort Frederick and other forts and blockhouses on the frontier, and for a joint expedition against Fort Duquesne......March 22, 1756
Governor Sharpe appoints a day of thanksgiving for the capture of Fort Duquesne, and the Assembly grants £ 1,500 to the Maryland troops who took part in the expedition......November, 1758
Frederick, Lord Baltimore, agrees to the appointment of the commission, Messrs. Mason and Dixon, who surveyed the line known by their name, and set up milestones: agreement made......July 4, 1760
Zachariah Hood, a merchant of Annapolis, is appointed stamp distributer under the Stamp Act; arriving with his stamps, he is obliged to land clandestinely; his effigy is whipped, hanged, and burned, and he seeks refuge in New York.
The Assembly, prorogued from 1763, meets and protests against the Stamp Act, and appoints Col. Edward Tilghman, William Murdock, and Thomas Ringgo
