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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barclay , Robert , 1648 -1690 (search)
Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690
Author; born in Gordonston, Scotland, Dec. 23, 1648.
At the age of nineteen, he embraced the principles of the Society of Friends.
In 1670 he vindicated them from false charges in a pamphlet entitled Truth cleared of calumnies.
He also published, in Latin and English, An apology for the true Christian Divinity, as the same is held forth and preached by the people called, in scorn, Quakers.
Barclay dedicated it to King Charles, with great modesty and independence, and it was one of the ablest defences of the doctrines of his sect.
His writings attracted public sympathy to his co-religionists.
The first remonstrance of Friends against war was put forth by Barclay in 1677, entitled a Treatise on universal love.
Barclay made many religious journeys in England, Holland, and Germany with William Penn, and was several times imprisoned on account of the promulgation of his doctrines.
Charles II.
was Barclay's friend through the influence of Penn, and ma
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berkeley , Sir William , (search)
Cambridge platform.
The second Synod of Massachusetts met at Cambridge in 1646, and was not dissolved until 1648.
The synod composed and adopted a system of church discipline called The Cambridge platform, and recommended it, together with the Westminster Confession of Faith, to the general court and to the churches.
The latter, in New England, generally complied with the recommendation, and The Cambridge platform, with the ecclesiastical laws, formed the theological constitution of the New England colonies.
Cannon,
In the United States, were cast at Lynn, Mass., by Henry Leonard, in 1647, and at Orr's foundry, Bridgewater, 1648.
In 1735 the Hope Furnace was established in Rhode Island, where six heavy cannon, ordered by the State, were cast in 1775.
The heaviest guns used at this time were 18-pounders.
William Denning makes wrought-iron cannon of staves bound together with wrought-iron bands, and boxed and breeched, 1790.
Colonel Bomford, of the United States ordnance department, invents a cannon called the columbiad, a long-chambered piece for projecting solid shot and shell with a heavy charge of powder, 1812.
West Point foundry established under special patronage of the government, 1817.
First contract of Gouverneur Kemble, president, for the West Point Foundry Association, for thirty-two 42-pounders, long guns, July 11, 1820.
First gun rifled in America at the South Boston Iron Company's foundry, 1834.
Cyrus Alger patents and makes the first malleable iron gu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clarke , or Clerke , Jeremy (search)
Clarke, or Clerke, Jeremy
One of the settlers of Newport, R. I., in 1639; became constable of the new plantation in 1640, and treasurer in 1647.
He was elected as an assistant to the president in 1648, and when the president-elect, William Coddington, failed to enter upon his office and to answer certain accusations brought against him, Clarke, who was a republican, was chosen by the assembly as president-regent, and served as such till the following May.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Day , or Daye , Stephen 1611 -1668 (search)
Day, or Daye, Stephen 1611-1668
The first printer in the English-American colonies; born in London in 1611; went to Massachusetts in 1638, and was employed to manage the printing-press sent out by Rev. Mr. Glover.
He began printing at Cambridge in March, 1639.
He was not a skilful workman, and was succeeded in the management, about 1648, by Samuel Green, who employed Day as a journeyman.
He died at Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 22, 1668.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorton , Samuel 1600 -1677 (search)