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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winslow, Edward 1595- (search)
his fellow-passengers. Winslow offered himself to Massasoit, the Indian sachem, as a hostage, at the first conference between the English and the natives, and won his respect and affection, especially by his curing the old ruler of an illness in 1623. He made two voyages to England Edward Winslow. (1623-1624) as agent for the colony, and in 1633 he succeeded Bradford as governor. He again visited England, where he was imprisoned by Archbishop Laud seventeen weeks for teaching in the church1623-1624) as agent for the colony, and in 1633 he succeeded Bradford as governor. He again visited England, where he was imprisoned by Archbishop Laud seventeen weeks for teaching in the church and performing the marriage ceremony as a magistrate. Winslow was one of the most active men in the colony, and was governor three successive terms. On his return from England, in 1624, he brought with him several cows and a bull, the first neat-cattle seen in the colony. He went to England again in 1649, after the death of Charles I., and there proposed, and aided in forming, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England. Cromwell so appreciated his worth that he offered him
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
engine-house. p is the cistern, r condenser, s bucket of air-pump, t hot-well. w is the induction water-pipe at the foot of the pump-stock, v the eduction main, u the feed-pump. The drainage of the Haarlem Lake in Holland, by which 45,230 acres of land were reclaimed, was effected between the years 1848 and 1853 by steam-pumping engines. These were three in number, named the Leeghwater, Cruquius, and Van Lynden, from three eminent men who had at different times, the first as far back as 1623, proposed plans for the drainage of this lake. The Leeghwater was the first erected, working 11 pumps of 63 inches diameter and 10 feet stroke. As a preliminary step, an earthen dam was constructed at the edge of the lake and inclosing about 1 1/2 acres of its surface; the water was withdrawn from this by pumping with a small steam-engine, and foundation piles, 1,400 in number, were driven to the depth of 40 feet until a stratum of hard sand was reached. Upon these piles, at a depth of 21
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
nd is made fast and the other is attached to the short arm of a bent lever, by means of which it may be at once applied to the greater part of the periphery of the wheel, exerting a frictional pressure proportionate to the force applied to the lever. Rib′bon-loom. The ribbon-loom first appeared at Dantzic in 1586, and the inventor is said to have been strangled to prevent the spread of what would throw so many mechanics out of employment. It was prohibited in Holland for that reason in 1623. It is first noticed in England in 1674. In 1780, the mode of ornamentation (watering) by pressing between figured steel plates was adopted. Steel cylin- ders were afterward substituted. See narrow-ware loom. Ribbon-map. Rib′bon-map. A map printed on a long strip which winds on an axis within the case. Rib′bon-saw. A thin and narrow endless band of steel, one edge of which is serrated. It is stretched over two drums, such a distance apart that there is a certain length of<
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 1: (search)
met the dangers and endured the hardships of the new settlement, and bore a prominent part in laying the foundation of the important town of Dorchester. He was made a freeman in 1637, and for twelve years was elected as a deputy to the General Court. In 1663 he was chosen clerk of ye training band; and in September, 1675, was on a jury for a trial of ye Indians in Boston. The old portraits of William and Mary Sumner, surmounted with the family coat of arms and insignia, and bearing date of 1623, were kept until within a few years by one branch of the family, when they fell to shreds under the hand of Time. From William, the original settler, through his son William, grandson George, great-grandson Edward, and great-great-grandson Increase (noted for his colossal size and herculean strength), was descended Gov. Increase Sumner, a man of commanding presence and of vigorous intellect, who was born in Roxbury, Nov. 27, 1746; graduated at Harvard College in 1767; and succeeded Samuel
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
d is too recent to possess authorities. There is an excellent chapter in Wendell's Literary history. (B) C. F. Browne's (Artemus Ward) Complete works, Dillingham & Co., 1898. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are the American publishers of Bret Harte's Complete works. Chronological table: events in American and English history and literature. English 1603-1625. James I. 1608. Milton born. 1610-1614. Chapman's Homer. 1611. The King James Bible. 1616. Shakespeare died. 1623. The Shakespeare Folio. 1625-1649. Charles I. 1625. Bacon's Esays. 1626. Bacon died. 1632. Milton's L'allegro andIl Penseroso. 1642. Beginning of Civil War. 1642. Newton born. 1644. Milton's Areopagitica. 1649. Charles I. executed. 1649-1660. The Commonwealth. 1658. Cromwell died. 1660-1686. Charles II. 1663-1678. Butler's Hudibra. 1667. Milton's Paradise Lot. 1667. Swift born. 1670. Dryden Poet-Laureate. 1671. Milton's Paradise Regained, 167
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
y Joseph Dennie, who, adopting Reed's text of 1803, made a few changes after the text of Ayscough (Dublin, 1791), suggested some conjectural emendations of his own, generally needless, and added a large number of original notes, mostly verbal. The Boston edition of 1836, edited anonymously by Oliver William Bourn Peabody (1799-1848), at that time an editor of The North American Review, is the first American Shakespeare which at least professes to base its text independently upon the Folio of 1623. In point of fact, Peabody's text is mainly that of Singer; there are very few avowed textual emendations; and of these about one-third do not follow the Folio, although they would better have done so. Peabody's few notes deal with the text as such. It is his distinction to have been the first American textual critic of Shakespeare, and to have set before himself at least as an ideal the constitution of a text upon the early authorities. Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786-1870) issued und
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 5 (search)
t is not my affair to discuss the later career of Philip, whose insurrection is now viewed more leniently than in its own day; but the spirit of it was surely quite mercilessly characterized by a Puritan minister, Increase Mather, who, when describing a battle in which old Indian men and women, the wounded and the helpless, were burned alive, said proudly, This day we brought five hundred Indian souls to hell. E. W. Pierce's Indian Biography, 22. But the end of all was approaching. In 1623, Massasoit sent a messenger to Plymouth to say that he was ill, and Governor Bradford sent Mr. Winslow to him with medicines and cordials. When they reached a certain ferry, upon Winslow's discharging his gun, Indians came to him from a house not far off who told him that Massasoit was dead and that day buried. As they came nearer, at about half an hour before the setting of the sun, another messenger came and told them that he was not dead, though there was no hope that they would find him
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
in the graces of description and fullness of detail. A general reference is now made, once for all, to those Lectures for a particular account of the doctrines taught and the books written by Mr. Shepard and by his successors in the ministry. The relations previously existing between Mr. Shepard and many of the early members of this Church are mentioned by himself in his autobiography. Born Nov. 5, 1605, at Towcester, Northamptonshire, and educated at Emanuel College in Cambridge, A. B. 1623, A. M. 1627, he took orders in the English Church; but as he could not conscientiously conform to all its ceremonies, he was constantly harassed by its rulers, and prevented from the exercise of his ministry in peace. After preaching at Earles Colne somewhat more than three years (where he secured the lasting friendship of Roger Harlakenden), and about a year at Buttercrambe, Yorkshire (where he married his first wife), and another year in sundry places in Northumberland, he sought refuge fr
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
Jan. 1777. Elizabeth, of Nantucket, a descendant from Rev. Samuel Angier, m. Andrew Craigie Jan. 1797, and d. 7 May 1844, a. 69. Shepard, Rev. Thomas, s. of William, b. in Towcester, Northamptonshire, 5 Nov. 1605, grad. at Cambridge, England, 1623, came to New England in 1635, and was immediately established here in the ministry. A large number of his friends and acquaintances either preceded or accompanied him, and purchased the estates of the first company, most of whom were about removiexington; he d. at Lex. 5 Ap. 1769; his w. Abigail d. 16 Jan. 1767, a. 81. 12. Simon, brother to Gregory (2), came to New England in 1634, and settled at Wat. with w. Joanna and four chil., born in England; Frances, b. about 1618; Ann, b. about 1623; Simon, b. about 1630; John, b. 1634, d. young. He had at Wat. John, b. 15 Aug. 1635, Deacon at Wat., where he d. 26 Mar. 1691; Elizabeth, b. 5 Ap. 1639. Simon the f. was Deacon of the Wat. Church, and d. 22 Sept. 1665, a. about 80, having previ
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, S. (search)
Jan. 1777. Elizabeth, of Nantucket, a descendant from Rev. Samuel Angier, m. Andrew Craigie Jan. 1797, and d. 7 May 1844, a. 69. Shepard, Rev. Thomas, s. of William, b. in Towcester, Northamptonshire, 5 Nov. 1605, grad. at Cambridge, England, 1623, came to New England in 1635, and was immediately established here in the ministry. A large number of his friends and acquaintances either preceded or accompanied him, and purchased the estates of the first company, most of whom were about removiexington; he d. at Lex. 5 Ap. 1769; his w. Abigail d. 16 Jan. 1767, a. 81. 12. Simon, brother to Gregory (2), came to New England in 1634, and settled at Wat. with w. Joanna and four chil., born in England; Frances, b. about 1618; Ann, b. about 1623; Simon, b. about 1630; John, b. 1634, d. young. He had at Wat. John, b. 15 Aug. 1635, Deacon at Wat., where he d. 26 Mar. 1691; Elizabeth, b. 5 Ap. 1639. Simon the f. was Deacon of the Wat. Church, and d. 22 Sept. 1665, a. about 80, having previ
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