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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. | 5 | 5 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908 | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for 1700 AD or search for 1700 AD in all documents.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mather , cotton 1663 -1728 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mitchell , John 1700 -1768 (search)
Mitchell, John 1700-1768
Physician; born in England; came to America and settled in Urbana, Va., in 1700; devoted much time to botanical researches and made valuable contributions to the knowledge of that science.
His publications relating to the history of the United States include A map of the British and French dominions in North America; The contest in America between Great Britain and France; and The present State of Great Britain and North America.
He died in England in March, 1768.
Mitchell, John 1700-1768
Physician; born in England; came to America and settled in Urbana, Va., in 1700; devoted much time to botanical researches and made valuable contributions to the knowledge of that science.
His publications relating to the history of the United States include A map of the British and French dominions in North America; The contest in America between Great Britain and France; and The present State of Great Britain and North America.
He died in England in March, 1768.
Montagu, Charles
First Earl of Halifax, statesman; born April 16, 1661; appointed a lord of the treasury in 1692; induced Parliament to raise a large loan, which was the beginning of the national debt of England.
He became chancellor of the exchequer in 1694; Baron of Halifax in 1700; Earl of Halifax in 1714.
He died May 19, 1715.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morris , Lewis 1671 -1746 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pastorius , Francis Daniel -1681 (search)
Pastorius, Francis Daniel -1681
Author of A Particular Geographical Description of the Lately Discovered Province of Pennsylvania situated on the Frontiers of this Western World, America.
Published in Frankfort and Leipzig in 1700; translated from the original German by Lewis H. Weiss.
John G. Whittier, in an introductory note to his poem, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, wrote:
The beginning of German emigration to America may be traced to the personal influence of William Penn, who in 1677 visited the Continent, and made the acquaintance of an intelligent and highly cultivated circle of Pietists, or Mystics, who, reviving in the seventeenth century the spiritual faith and worship of Tauler and the Friends of God in the fourteenth, gathered about the pastor Spener, and the young and beautiful Eleonora Johanna von Merlau.
In this circle originated the Frankfort Land Company, which bought of William Penn, the governor of Pennsylvania, a tract of land near the new city of Philad
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Protestant churches. (search)
Talon, Pierre 1650-
Explorer; born in Canada after 1650; was with the La Salle expedition to Illinois in 1687.
After the murder of La Salle he lived for a time with the Cenis Indians.
Later he became an interpreter to Franciscan missionaries who had arrived at the village.
Subsequently he went, with a sister and two brothers, to Mexico.
He wrote an account of La Salle's death in a work entitled Narrative of Pierre and Jean talon, by the order of Count Ponchartrain, to their arrival at Vera Cruz, Sept. 14, 1698.
He died after 1700.