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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), University and College education in the United States , the trend of (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)
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