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Alexander,
An American Indian king.
Massasoit (q. v.) died in 1660. Three or four years before his death he took his two sons, Wamsutta and Metacomet, to Plymouth, Mass., and asked that both should receive English names.
The oldest was named Alexander.
and the second Philip.
Alexander succeeded his father as chief sachem of the Wampanoags.
In 1661 he was compelled to go to Plymouth a prisoner, on suspicion of being league with the Narragansets in hostile designs against the English.
The suspicion was not sustained by evidence.
On his way to Plymouth the chief was taken suddenly ill, and in a few hours died, it was said of a fever brought on by rage and mortification.
His young wife, who became the squaw sachem Witamo, believed he had been poisoned by the English.
This event soured the minds of Philip and his followers towards the English, and was one of the indirect causes which led to King Philip's War. See King Philip.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eliot , John , 1754 -1690 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Friends, Society of (search)
Friends, Society of
Otherwise known as Quakers, claim as their founder George Fox (q. v.), an Englishman; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, in 1624.
The first general meeting of Friends was held in 1668, and the second in 1672.
Owing to the severe persecution which they suffered in England, a number of them came to America in 1656, and landed at Boston, whence they were later scattered by persecution.
The first annual meeting in America is said to have been held in Rhode Island in 1661.
It was separated from the London annual meeting in 1683.
This meeting was held regularly at Newport till 1878, since when it has alternated between Newport and Portland,
Quaker Exhorter in colonial New England. Me. Annual meetings were founded in Maryland in 1672, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1681, in North Carolina in 1708, and in Ohio in 1812.
The Friends have no creed, and no sacraments.
They claim that a spiritual baptism and a spiritual communion without outward signs are all
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huguenots. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iberville , Pierre Le Moyne , Sieur Da 1661 - (search)
Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur Da 1661-
Founder of Louisiana; born in Montreal, Canada, July 16, 1661; was one of eleven brothers who figure in some degree in French colonial history.
Entering the French navy at fourteen, he became distinguished in the annals of Canada for his operations against the English in the north and east of that province.
In 1698 he was sent from France to the Gulf of Mexico with two frigates (Oct. 22), to occupy the mouth of the Mississippi and the region neglected after the death of La Salle.
On finding that stream, he received from the Indians a letter left by De Tonty, in 1686, for La Salle.
There he built Fort Biloxi, garrisoned it, and made his brother Bienville the King's lieutenant.
In May, 1699, he returned to France, but reappeared at Fort Biloxi in January, 1700.
On visiting France and returning in 1701, he found the colony reduced by disease, and transferred the settlement to Mobile, and began the colonization of Alabama.
Disease had
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mather , increase 1639 -1723 (search)
Mather, increase 1639-1723
Clergyman; born in Dorchester, Mass., June 21, 1639; was educated at Harvard and Dublin universities, and returned to Boston in 1661, having spent some time in England, preaching occasionally.
He was president of Harvard University from 1685 to 1701.
He was the first person in the United States upon whom was conferred the degree of D. D. He was an energetic and patriotic public man; took an active part in the political affairs of the colony; was sent to England to obtain redress of grievances; and returned in 1692 with a new charter, and invested with the power to nominate a governor, lieutenant-governor, and council for Massachusetts. Dr. Mather opposed the violent measures promoted by his son, cotton, against persons accused of witchcraft.
He wrote a History of the War with the Indians, and other books and pamphlets, to the number of ninety-two.
He died in Boston, Aug. 23, 1723.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Melyn , Cornelius 1639 - (search)