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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beekman , Gerardus , -1728 (search)
Beekman, Gerardus, -1728
Colonial governor; was a member of Leisler's council in 1688 and was condemned with Leisler, but subsequently pardoned.
In 1700 he became lieutenant-colonel of a militia regiment under Governor Bellomont.
After the removal of Governor Ingoldsby.
Beekman was president of the council and acting governor of New York until the arrival of Governor Hunter, in whose council he also served.
He died in New York City about 1728.
Calef, Robert
Author; place and date of birth uncertain; became a merchant in Boston; and is noted for his controversy with Cotton Mather concerning the witchcraft delusion in New England.
Mather had published a work entitled Wonders of the invisible world, and Calef attacked the book, the author, and the subject in a publication entitled More wonders of the invisible world.
Calef's book was published in London in 1700, and in Salem the same year.
About this time the people and magistrates had come to their senses, persecutions had ceased, and the folly of the belief in witchcraft was broadly apparent.
Mather, however, continued to write in favor of it, and to give instances of the doings of witches in their midst.
Flashy people, wrote Mather, may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people, in a country where they have as much mother-wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism [disb
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De Lancey , ÉTienne 1663 -1741 (search)
De Lancey, ÉTienne 1663-1741
Merchant; born in Caen, France, Oct. 24, 1663; fled to Holland on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; and went thence to England and became a British subject.
He landed in New York, June 7, 1686; became a merchant and amassed a large fortune; and was at all times a publicspirited citizen.
In 1700 he built the De Lancey house, which subsequently became known as the Queen's head and Fraunce's Tavern.
In the large room, originally Mrs. De Lancey's drawing-room, Washington bade farewell to the officers of the Army of the Revolution.
He died in New York City, Nov. 18, 1741
Indiana,
Was first explored by French missionaries and traders, and Vincennes was a missionary station as early as 1700. Indiana constituted a part of New France, and afterwards of the Northwest Territory.
In 1702 some French Canadians discovered the Wabash, and established several trading-posts on its banks, among others, Vincennes.
Little is known of the early settlers until the country was ceded to the English, in 1763.
The treaty of 1783 included Indiana in the United States.
A distressing Indian war broke out in 1788, but by victories by General Wilkinson (1791) and General Wayne (1794), a dangerous confederacy of the tribes was broken up. Another was afterwards attempted by Tecumseh, but was defeated by the result of the battle of Tippecanoe.
In 1800 the Connecticut Reserve, in the northwestern portion of Ohio, having
State seal of Indiana. been sold to a company of speculators, measures were taken to extinguish certain claims on the part of the United States and t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jesuit missions. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Joliet , Louis 1645 -1700 (search)
Joliet, Louis 1645-1700
Discoverer; born in Quebec, Canada, Sept. 21, 1645; was educated at the Jesuit college in his native city, and afterwards engaged in the furtrade in the Western wilderness.
In 1673 Intendant Talon, at Quebec, with the sanction of Governor Frontenac, selected Joliet to find and ascertain the direction of the course of the Mississippi and its mouth.
Starting from Mackinaw, in May, 1673, with Father Marquette and five other Frenchmen, they reached the Mississippi June 17.
They studied the country on their route, made maps, and gained much information.
After intercourse with Indians on the lower Mississippi, near the mouth of the Arkansas, who had trafficked with Europeans, they were satisfied that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, and made their way back to Green Bay, where Joliet started alone for Quebec to report to his superiors.
His canoe was upset in Lachine Rapids, above Montreal, and his journals and charts were lost, but he wrote ou
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Livingston , Robert 1634 -1725 (search)