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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
o fix on a common prime meridian for the world......Aug. 3, 1882 First session adjourns......Aug. 8, 1882 National mining and industrial exposition held at Denver, Col.......August, 1882 Verdict in star-route case: Peck and Turner not guilty; Miner and Rerdell guilty; jury disagree on the others......Sept. 11, 1882 Engineer G. W. Melville, of the Jeannette, and seamen William Noros and William Ninderman arrive at New York......Sept. 13, 1882 Bi-centennial of the landing of William Penn celebrated in Philadelphia......Oct. 22-27, 1882 Thurlow Weed, politician and journalist, born 1798, dies......Nov. 22, 1882 Second session convenes......Dec. 4, 1882 Tariff commission submits an exhaustive report......Dec. 4, 1882 New trial of star-route case begins......Dec. 4, 1882 Newhall House, Milwaukee, Wis., burned; nearly one hundred lives lost......Jan. 10, 1883 Lot M. Morrill, born 1813, dies at Augusta, Me.......Jan. 10, 1883 Act to regulate and improve th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
1673 By treaty of Westminster, Delaware reverts to the English, and Sir Edmund Andros reappoints magistrates who had been removed by the Dutch......1674 William Penn arrives at New Castle with deed from Duke of York for a circle of 12 miles around New Castle, and lands between this tract and the sea......Oct. 28, 1682 Acexing to Pennsylvania the three lower counties on the Delaware, New Castle, Kent, and Sussex......Dec. 7, 1682 Lords of trade and plantations decide in favor of Penn against Lord Baltimore's claim to Delaware......1685 Delaware, under its charter from Penn, forms a legislative Assembly; first meeting at New Castle......1703 Penn, forms a legislative Assembly; first meeting at New Castle......1703 Willingtown, now Wilmington, laid out by Thomas Willing......October, 1731 After twenty years of litigation the boundaries of Delaware are defined......1733 James Adams introduces printing into Delaware, publishing at Wilmington, for six months, the Wilmington Courant......1761 Thomas McKean and Caesar Rodney sent as d
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
or inhabitants of property......September, 1681 Charles, Lord Baltimore, reassumes personal government......1681 William Penn receives his grant to territory west of the Delaware and north of Maryland......1681 In the contest between WilliamWilliam Penn and Lord Baltimore, Penn claims 39° as the beginning of the parallel of 40° ; and the King and council decide that the Maryland charter only included lands uncultivated and inhabited by savages, and that therefore the territory along the DelawaPenn claims 39° as the beginning of the parallel of 40° ; and the King and council decide that the Maryland charter only included lands uncultivated and inhabited by savages, and that therefore the territory along the Delaware was not included; that the peninsula between the two bays be divided equally, all east of a line drawn from the latitude of Cape Henlopen to the 40th degree to belong to Penn......November, 1685 Council of nine deputies, with William Joseph as Penn......November, 1685 Council of nine deputies, with William Joseph as president, appointed by Lord Baltimore, govern the province during his absence in England......1685 Deputies failing to proclaim William and Mary rulers in the province, a convention of Protestants (termed Associators), John Coode at the head, ass
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
ish province, under treaty of peace between England and Holland......Feb. 9, 1674 Edward Byllinge, becoming financially embarrassed, assigns his contract to William Penn and others......Feb. 10, 1674 Philip Carteret returns and resumes authority in New Jersey, meeting the General Assembly at Bergen......Nov. 6, 1674 Fenwik to have one-tenth interest, and the assignees of Byllinge nine-tenths, and a government established......March 3, 1676 Quintipartite deed executed between William Penn and others, assignees of Byllinge, and Sir George Carteret, for a division of New Jersey into east and west, by a line drawn from Little Egg Harbor to the most organizes a government, with Samuel Jennings as deputy governor......Nov. 25, 1681 Carteret's heirs sell east Jersey to a company of proprietors, including William Penn and eleven others......Feb. 1-2, 1682 Penn Company, now increased to twenty-four proprietors, secure a new conveyance of east Jersey from the Duke of York,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
and arrives in Pennsylvania......June, 1681 Penn contracts to sell an association, Company of frby governors of New York; to perfect his title, Penn obtains from the duke a quit claim to Pennsylva brick residence built at a cost of £ 7,000 for Penn on Pennsbury Manor, opposite Burlington, about d Philadelphia organized......December, 1682 Penn attends to laying out Philadelphia......Decembe phrase became at once exceedingly popular.] Penn summons the Assembly to Philadelphia, where cha witch; acquitted, but bound to keep the peace; Penn presides; first and only case of such trial in [First anti-slavery effort in America.] William Penn charter school established in Philadelphia.nder Governor Fletcher of New York......1693 Penn's chartered rights restored......Aug. 30, 1694 e of worship built in Philadelphia......1695 Penn returns to Pennsylvania after absence of fifteeabolish the proprietary governments in America, Penn, to oppose this, sails for England and never vi[14 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Virginia, state of (search)
suppressed by troops under General Morgan......June, 1775 Captain Foreman and twenty-one men massacred by Indians about 4 miles from Moundsville......Sept. 25, 1777 Fort Henry unsuccessfully besieged by Indians under Simon Girty......Sept. 27-28, 1777 Cornstalk, Shawnee chief, murdered at Point Pleasant......Nov. 10, 1777 Fort Randolph besieged by Indians......May, 1778 Attack by the Indians on Donnally's Fort, 10 miles northwest of Lewisburg......May, 1778 By grant of William Penn in 1681, the western boundary of Pennsylvania is the meridian 5 degrees west of the Delaware. Virginia in ceding to the United States lands beyond the Ohio, in 1784, reserved a strip about 70 miles long upon the Ohio west of Pennsylvania, now known as the Panhandle......March 1, 1784 General Assembly directs the establishment of Morgantown......October, 1785 Wheeling laid out in town lots by Col. Ebenezer Zane......1793 Charleston created by act of legislature......Dec. 19, 1794
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walking purchase, the (search)
Walking purchase, the In 1682 William Penn purchased of the Indians a tract of land in the present Bucks and Northampton counties, boundein the interior at a point as far as a man could walk in three days. Penn and the Indians started on the walk, beginning at the mouth of Neshaminy Creek. At the end of a walk of a day and a half Penn concluded that it was as much land as he wanted, and a deed was given for the landThis agreement was confirmed by the Delawares in 1718, the year when Penn died. White settlers, however, went over this boundary to the Lehigwas then proposed that a walk of a day and a half, as agreed upon by Penn, should be again undertaken. Thomas and Richard Penn, sons of WilWilliam Penn, were then proprietors, and, contrary to the spirit of their father, they devised a plan to cheat the Indians out of a large tract oce of about 70 miles from the starting-point, instead of 40 miles in Penn's time, and as the Indians expected. Then, by running a line northe
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weems, Mason Locke 1760-1825 (search)
ere, and was for a long while a successful travelling agent for the sale of books for Matthew Cary, of Philadelphia, travelling extensively in the Southern States. He was eccentric, and, at public gatherings, would address crowds upon the merits of his books, interspersing his remarks with stories and anecdotes. He would also play the violin at dances, and preach when occasion offered. Weems wrote a pamphlet entitled The drunkard's looking-glass, illustrated with rude wood-cuts. This pamphlet he sold wherever he travelled. He entered taverns, addressed the company usually assembled in such places, imitated the foolish acts of an intoxicated person, and then offered his pamphlets for sale. His mimicry of a drunken man was generally taken as good-natured fun. He wrote lives of Washington, William Penn, Dr. Franklin, and General Marion, and was also the author of several tracts. His Life of Washington passed through nearly forty editions. He died in Beaufort, S. C., May 23, 1825.
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 12: practical lessons from Garrison's career (search)
brotherhood. Only last week (as I write) in Philadelphia (the City of Brotherly Love) the Pennsylvania Division, United Boys' Brigade of America, in full military uniform, was reviewed by the State Commander and addressed by the reverend and distinguished chaplain. There were companies from the Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational, Reformed, Episcopal, Reformed Episcopal and Moravian churches, and one company from Holy Trinity Church was named after the Prince of peace ! What would William Penn and the early Moravians have said of it? And Episcopal missionaries have introduced the Brigade into China, a nation which looks down on war. If lovers of peace leave the church as the Abolitionists did, they may find more Christianity without, and they will not be without good precedents for their action. There is something petrifying and deadening in institutionalism of all kinds, sacred and profane, and a church cannot in the very nature of things (except at its very inception) be a
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and explorers, 1583-1763 (search)
o the head of navigation, or wandered into the valleys beyond the surrounding ridges, but very rarely were observations or physical experiences committed to paper. The impulse to print the reports of travellers did not come until there was land to be sold. The seventeenth-century promoters of speculation carried on the practice of distributing tracts telling about the property they wished others to buy. The little pamphlets issued by the Virginia Company, by the Massachusetts Agents, by William Penn in German, Dutch, and French as well as in English, by the Scots Proprietors of the Jerseys, and by the Lords of Carolina, are today worth more money than many of the acres that they describe. Most of these early tracts were written by men who had travelled through the regions of which they wrote. Rarely is there any substantial reason for doubting the honesty of what was reported as the result of actual observation. What I write, is what I have proved, remarks one of the frankest of t