hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for 1707 AD or search for 1707 AD in all documents.
Your search returned 24 results in 19 document sections:
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bayard , Nicholas , 1644 -1707 (search)
Bayard, Nicholas, 1644-1707
Colonial executive; born in Alphen, Holland, in 1644.
His mother was a sister of Governor Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Netherland, whom she accompanied to America in 1647, with her three sons and a daughter.
The old Bayard mansion in New York City, on the Bowery, was converted into a pleasure garden in 1798.
The Astor Library is built on a part of the estate.
Under the second English regime, in 1685, Bayard was mayor of New York, and a member ofBayard was mayor of New York, and a member of Governor Dongan's council.
In 1698 Col. Bayard went to England to clear himself of the imputation of complicity in the piracy of Captain Kidd, having been accused by the Leisler faction of both piracy and a scheme to introduce slavery.
He was tried before Chief-Justice Atwood and sentenced to death.
The proceedings, however, were annulled by an order-in-council, and he was reinstated in his property and honors.
He died in New York City, in 1707.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bienville , Jean Baptiste le moyne , 1680 -1701 (search)
Great Britain.
Although this name was applied by the French at a very early period to distinguish it from Little Britain, the name of the western peninsular projection of France, called by the Romans Amorica, it was seldom used on that island until the accession of James I. to the crown of England (1603), when the whole of the island, comprising England, Scotland, and Wales, was united under one sovereign.
By the legislative union between England and Scotland in 1707, Great Britain became the legal title of the kingdom.
The official style of the empire is now United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hopkins , Stephen 1707 -1785 (search)
Hopkins, Stephen 1707-1785
Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Scituate, R. I., March 7, 1707; was engaged in early life in mercantile business and land surveying; became an active member of the Rhode Island legislature, and was speaker of the Assembly from 1732 till 1741.
In 1739 he was chief-justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and of the Supreme Court from 1751 to 1754. Mr. Hopkins was a delegate in the colonial convention at Albany in 1754, and one of the committee who drew up a plan of union.
From 1754 to 1768 he was governor of Rhode Island, excepting four years. He was a member of the first Continental Congress, and remained in that body from 1776 to 1778.
He had been from the beginning a stanch opposer of the oppressive measures of Parliament.
He was one of the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation (see Confederation, articles of); was a superior mathematician; and was for many years chancellor of Brown University.
Notwithstanding his de
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), entry impressment (search)
Impressment.
In 1707 the British Parliament, by act, forbade the impressment of seamen in American ports and waters for privateering service, unless of such sailors as had previously deserted from ships-of-war.
The custom had been a source of annoyance and complaint for several years, and was continued despite the action of Parliament.
In November, 1747, Commodore Knowles, while in Boston Harbor, finding himself short of men, sent a press-gang into the town one morning, which seized and carried to the vessels several of the citizens.
This violence aroused the populace.
Several of the naval officers on shore were seized by a mob and held as hostages for their kidnapped countrymen.
They also surrounded the town house, where the legislature was in session, and demanded the release of the impressed men. The governor called out the militia, who reluctantly obeyed.
Then, alarmed, he withdrew to the castle.
Knowles offered a company of marines to sustain his authority, and threa
Ogden, David 1707-
Jurist; born in Newark, N. J., in 1707; graduated at Yale in 1728; appointed judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1772, but was obliged to resign at the beginning of the War of the Revolution.
He was in England the greater portion of the time until 1789, acting as agent for the loyalists who had claims on Great Britain, and he secured a compensation of $100,000 for his own losses.
He settled in Whitestone, N. Y., in 1789, and died there in June, 1800.
Ogden, David 1707-
Jurist; born in Newark, N. J., in 1707; graduated at Yale in 1728; appointed judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1772, but was obliged to resign at the beginning of the War of the Revolution.
He was in England the greater portion of the time until 1789, acting as agent for the loyalists who had claims on Great Britain, and he secured a compensation of $100,000 for his own losses.
He settled in Whitestone, N. Y., in 1789, and died there in June, 1800.