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Alabama.
The soil of this State was first trodden by Europeans in 1540.
These were the followers of De Soto (q. v.). In 1702, Bienville.
the French governor of Louisiana, entered Mobile Bay, and built a fort and trading-house at the mouth of Dog River.
In 1711 the French founded Mobile, and there a colony prospered for a while.
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State seal of Alabama. slaves were first brought into this colony by three French ships of war in 1721.
By the treaty of 1763 this region was transferred by France to Great Britain. Alabama formed a portion of the State of Georgia, but in 1798 the country now included in the States of Alabama and Mississippi was organized as a Territory called Mississippi.
After the Creeks disappeared the region of Alabama was rapidly settled by white people, and in 1819 it entered the Union as a State.
The slave population increased more rapidly than the white.
In the Democratic National Convention that was held at Charleston in 1860 the delegates of Alaba
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Apalache, Apalacha, Apalachi, or Appalachee, (search)
Apalache, Apalacha, Apalachi, or Appalachee,
Various forms of the name of a tribe of North American Indians who dwelt in the vicinity of St. Mark's River, Florida, with branches extending northward to the Appalachian range.
They were known, historically, as far back as 1526.
The settlements of the tribe were mentioned in a petition to King Charles II., of Spain, in 1688, and it is believed that the tribe became broken up and scattered about 1702, the members becoming absorbed in other tribes.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cornbury , Edward Hyde , Lord -1723 (search)
Cornbury, Edward Hyde, Lord -1723
Colonial governor; was sent to the province of New York as governor in 1702, when he was Sir Edward Hyde, grandson of the first Earl of Clarendon, and nephew, by marriage, of James II.
He was one of the officers of that monarch's household, and was the first to desert him and go over to the Prince of Orange, who became William III, of England.
Grateful for this act, William made him governor of the united provinces of New York and New Jersey.
He was cordially and generously received.
The Assembly, which was largely Leislerian in its political composition, and claimed Hyde as a friend, voted him a double salary, a disbursement of the expenses of his voyage, and a reversion of seven years. A public dinner was given him, and the freedom of the city in a gold box. His suite, the soldiers of the garrison, and all citizens unable to purchase their freedom, were made freemen, with rights of suffrage, trade, and of holding office.
This generous rece
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Episcopacy in America . (search)
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