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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Puritans, (search)
hipped for suspicion of slander, idleness, and stubbornness. He admonished Captain Lovell to take heed of light carriage. Josias Plaistowe stole four baskets of corn from the Indians, and he was ordered to return to them eight baskets, to be fined £ 5, and thereafter to be called by the name of Josias, and not Mr. Plaistowe, as formerly. He directed his grand-jurors to admonish those who wore apparel too costly for their incomes, and, if they did not heed the warning, to fine them; and in 1646 he placed on the statute-books of Massachusetts a law which imposed the penalty of flogging for kissing a woman in the street, even by way of honest salute. He rigidly enforced this law 100 years after its enactment, because it was not repealed. A British war-vessel entered the harbor of Boston. The captain, hastening to his home in that town, met his wife in the street and kissed her. He was accused, found guilty, and mildly whipped. Just before sailing on another cruise he invited his a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Savage, James 1784-1873 (search)
Savage, James 1784-1873 Historian; born in Boston, Mass., July 13, 1784; graduated at Harvard College in 1803; admitted to the bar in 1807; served in the Massachusetts legislature. His publications include John Winthrop's history of New England from 1630 to 1646, with notes to illustrate the Civil and ecclesiastical concerns, the geography, settlement, and institutions of the country, and the lives and manners of the ancient planters; and Genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692. He died in Boston, Mass., March 8, 1873.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Underhill, John 1630-1672 (search)
story of the Pequot War, entitled News from America. Dover, N. H., regarded as a place of refuge for the persecuted, received Underhill, and he was chosen governor. It was discovered that it lay within the chartered limits of Massachusetts, and the latter claimed political jurisdiction over it. Underhill treated the claim with contempt at first, but, being accused of gross immorality, he became alarmed, and not only yielded his power, but urged the people to submit to Massachusetts. He went before the General Court and made the most abject confession of the truth of the charges. He did the same publicly in the church, and was excommunicated. He afterwards lived at Stamford, Conn., and in 1646 went to Flushing, L. I. In the war between the Dutch and Indians he commanded troops, and in 1655 he represented Oyster Bay in the assembly at Hempstead. He died in Oyster Bay, L. I., about 1672. His descendants still possess lands given to him by Indians on Long Island. See Pequod Indians.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
f the province at St. Mary's in February, 1645, and the appointment of Edward Hill as governor in the absence of Governor Calvert, who fled from the parliamentary party, probably to Virginia. At the restoration of the authority of Lord Baltimore, 1646, the insurrectionists carried away or destroyed most of the records and public papers of the province......1644-46 Governor Calvert organizes a military force in Virginia and proceeds to St. Mary's, and regains that part of his province......1646 Governor Calvert organizes a military force in Virginia and proceeds to St. Mary's, and regains that part of his province......1646 First mention made in the legislative journal of the upper and lower Houses of Assembly......1647 Recovering the Isle of Kent, Governor Calvert pardons all the inhabitants, and appoints Robert Vaughan chief captain and commander of the militia and civil governor......April 18, 1647 Governor Calvert nominates Thomas Greene as his successor......June 9, 1647 Miss Margaret Brent, administratrix of Governor Calvert, asks from the Assembly a vote in the House for herself, and another a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
from the King......1643 Patent granted by Robert, Earl of Warwick, governor-in-chief and lord high admiral, and commissioners, to planters of the towns of Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport, for incorporation of Providence Plantations in Narraganset Bay......March 14, 1643 General Court changes the name of Aquedneck to the Isles of Rhodes or Rhode Island......March 13, 1644 Grant to John Smith to establish a grist-mill above Mill Bridge in Providence, the first in Rhode Island......1646 Committees from Providence, Portsmouth, Newport, and Warwick at Portsmouth, adopt the charter of 1643, choose John Coggeshall president of the colony, and give a tax of £ 100 to Roger Williams for obtaining the charter......May 19-21, 1647 Canonicus, sachem of the Narragansets, dies......June 4, 1647 William Coddington receives from the council of state in England a commission, signed by John Bradshaw, to govern Rhode Island and Connecticut during his life, with a council of six, t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Usher, Hezekiah 1615-1676 (search)
Usher, Hezekiah 1615-1676 Patriot; born in England about 1615; established himself in Boston in 1646; was agent for the Society for Propagating the Gospel; purchased the press and type for printing Eliot's Indian Bible in 1657; and was one of the founders of the Old South Church in 1669. He died in Boston, Mass., March 14, 1676. Patriot; born in Cambridge, Mass., June 6, 1639; son of the preceding; engaged in business in Boston. During the witchcraft excitement he was arrested but allowed to escape. He died in Boston, Mass., July 11, 1679.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Twiller, Wouter or Walter -1646 (search)
Van Twiller, Wouter or Walter -1646 colonial governor; was a resident of Nieukirk, Holland, about 1580; was chosen to succeed Peter Minuits as governor of New Netherland in 1633. He was one of the clerks in the West India Company's warehouse at Amsterdam, and had married a niece of Killian Van Rensselaer, the wealthiest of the newly created patroons. Van Rensselaer had employed him to ship cattle to his domain on Hudson River, and it was probably his interest to have this agent in New Ne colony in a sorry condition, but with an ample private estate. Van Rensselaer seems to have had confidence in Van Twiller, for he made him executor of his last will and testament. In a controversy, Van Twiller took sides against the West India Company, and vilified the administration of Stuyvesant. The company were indignant, and spoke of Van Twiller as an ungrateful man who had sucked his wealth from the breasts of the company which he now abuses. He died in Amsterdam, Holland, after 1646.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ward, Nathaniel 1578-1652 (search)
Ward, Nathaniel 1578-1652 Author; born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, about 1578; graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1603; practised law and preached; became a member of the Massachusetts Company in 1630, and emigrated to the colony in 1634, where he was pastor at Agawam till 1637; took part in the settlement of Haverhill in 1640; returned to England in 1646, and was author of Body of liberties; The simple Cobbler of Agawam, etc. He died in Shenfield, Essex, England, in October, 1652.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheelwright, John 1592- (search)
Wheelwright, John 1592- Clergyman; born in Lincolnshire, England, about 1592; was a graduate of Cambridge University, England, and a classmate of Cromwell. Being driven from his church by Archbishop Laud, in 1636, for Non-conformity, he came to Boston and was chosen pastor of a church in (present) Braintree. Mr. Wheelwright seconded the theological views of Anne Hutchinson (q. v.), and publicly defended them, for which offence he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony. He founded Exeter, on a branch of the Piscataqua River; and when, five years later, that town was declared to be within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, he removed with his family to Wells, Me. In 1646, he returned to Massachusetts, a reconciliation having been effected; and in 1657 he went to England. He returned in 1660, and in May, 1662, became pastor of a church at Salisbury, Mass., where he died, Nov. 15, 1679.
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