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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treat, Robert 1622-1710 (search)
Treat, Robert 1622-1710 Governor; born in England in 1622; came to America with Sir Richard Saltonstall, and was one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Conn. He was chosen judge, then a magistrate (from 1661 to 1665), and major of the provincial troops in 1670. In King Philip's War he was active in the relief of menaced settlements in the Connecticut Valley, especially of Springfield and Hadley. He aided in the destruction of the Narraganset fort in December, 1676; the same year was lieutenant-governor; and was governor in 1686-1701. He died in Milford, Conn., July 12, 1710.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Mexico, (search)
covered, they begin two days earlier a massacre of the Spanish, who are obliged to flee the country, the Pueblos taking possession of Santa Fe......Aug. 21, 1680 New Mexico reconquered by the Spanish under Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan......1692 Severe famine arising in the Spanish settlements, the Indians of fourteen pueblos enter upon a desolating but unsuccessful war for the expulsion of the Spanish......1696 Albuquerque founded during the administration of Duke of Albuquerque......1701-10 Lieutenant-Colonel Carrisco discovers the Santa Rita mines near Silver City......1800 Baptiste Lalande, a Frenchman from Kaskaskia, reaches Santa Fe with a stock of merchandise, which he disposes of at a very large profit......1804 James Pursley, a Kentuckian, leaves St. Louis in 1802, and after three years wandering reaches Santa Fe......1805 Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike, of the United States army, builds a fort on the Rio del Norte on Spanish soil, supposing it to be the Red River
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), University and College education in the United States, the trend of (search)
yed in connection with the library and the laboratory, our fathers utterly lacked. In reference to the control of higher education in this early stage of its development, the following points deserve consideration: 1. Nearly all the institutions of higher learning were established by denominations. Harvard came first, in 1636, established by the Congregationalists. In 1693 the college of William and Mary was founded by the Church of England in the colony of Virginia. Yale followed in 1701, under the Congregationalists. Then in 1746 the Presbyterians established Princeton College, and this was followed in quick succession by Washington and Lee University in 1749, under the Church of England; the university of Pennsylvania in 1751; Columbia University in 1754, under the Church of England; Brown University in 1764, in charge of the Baptists; Rutgers College in 1766, under the Dutch Reformed Church; Dartmouth College in 1770, by the Congregationalists; and Hampden-Sydney College
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willard, Samuel 1640- (search)
Willard, Samuel 1640- Clergyman; born in Concord, Mass. Jan. 31, 1640; graduated at Harvard College in 1659; studied theology and was minister in Groton in 1663-76, when he was driven away by King Philip's War; was pastor of Old South Church, Boston, in 1678; opposed the witchcraft delusions of 1692; and was vice-president and acting president of Harvard College from 1701 till his death, in Boston, Sept. 12, 1707.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), William iii. (William Henry, Prince of Orange) 1650-1702 (search)
phant in Scotland, after some trouble at the beginning, and he joined a coalition of European states in making war on France. The adherents of James in Ireland were numerous, and were supported by the French. In 1690 he took command of his own troops there, and, at the battle of the Boyne, July 1 (O. S.), James, who led the insurgents, was defeated and fled to France. The war continued till 1697, when the treaty at Ryswick ended it. Queen Mary died late in 1694, when William became sole monarch. He instituted salutary reforms in England, and the English constitution was placed on a firm basis. He labored to check the power of France and increase that of the Netherlands as long as he lived. His death was caused by being thrown from his horse. Having no heir, he promoted the act of settlement, calling the house of Hanover to the throne, which was adopted by Parliament in 1701, and completed the English revolution. He died in Kensington, March 8, 1702. See William's War, King.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yale University, (search)
abandoned for a time. It was revived in 1698, and the following year ten of the principal clergymen were appointed trustees to found a college. These held a meeting at New Haven and organized an association of eleven ministers, including a rector. Not long afterwards they met. Yale College, 1793. when each minister gave some books for a library, saying, I give these books for founding a college in Connecticut. The General Assembly granted a charter (Oct. Seal of Yale University. 9, 1701), and on Nov. 11 the trustees met at Saybrook, which they had selected as the place for the college, and elected Rev. Abraham Pierson rector. The first The old fence at Yale. student was Jacob Hemmingway, who entered in March, 1702, and was alone for six months, when the number of students was increased to eight, and a tutor was chosen. The site being inconvenient, in 1716 it was voted to establish the school permanently at New Haven, and the first college building was begun soon afterwa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), York, James, Duke of -1701 (search)
York, James, Duke of -1701 Born in St. James's Palace, London, England, Oct. 14, James, Duke of York. 1633; son of Charles I.; became lord high admiral on the accession of his brother Charles to the throne in 1660. On March 12, 1664, King Charles II. granted to James, under a patent bearing the royal seal, a territory in America which included all the lands and rivers from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of the Delaware River. Its inland boundary was a line from the head of the Connecticut River to the source of the Hudson, thence to the head of the Mohawk branch of the Hudson, and thence to the east of Delaware Bay. It also embraced Long Island and the adjacent islands, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket; also the territory of Pemaquid, in Maine. This granted territory embraced all of New Netherland and a part of Connecticut, which had been affirmed to other English proprietors by the charter of 1662. The duke detached four ships from the
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