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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 2 (search)
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Addenda. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 7.48 (search)
Bard, John, 1716-1799
Physician; born in Burlington, N. J., Feb. 1, 1716; was of a Huguenot family, and was for seven years a surgeon's apprentice in Philadelphia.
Establishing himself in New York, he soon ranked among the first physicians and surgeons in America.
In 1750 he assisted Dr. Middleton in the first recorded dissection in America.
In 1788 he became the first president of the New York Medical Society; and when, in 1795, the yellow fever raged in New York, he remained at his post, though then nearly eighty years of age. He died in Hyde Park, N. Y., March 30, 1799.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beverly , Robert 1675 -1716 (search)
Beverly, Robert, 1675-1716
Historian; born in Virginia about 1675.
During Sir Edmund Andros's administration he was clerk of the council, an office his father had held before him. He wrote History of the present State of Virginia (4 volumes, published in London in 1705). This included an account of the first settlement of Virginia, and the history of the government until that time.
Mr. Beverly is said to have been the first American citizen in whose behalf the habeas corpus act was broughrian; born in Virginia about 1675.
During Sir Edmund Andros's administration he was clerk of the council, an office his father had held before him. He wrote History of the present State of Virginia (4 volumes, published in London in 1705). This included an account of the first settlement of Virginia, and the history of the government until that time.
Mr. Beverly is said to have been the first American citizen in whose behalf the habeas corpus act was brought into requisition.
He died in 1716.
Burr, Aaron, 1716-
educator; born in Fairfield, Conn., Jan. 4, 1716; was of German descent; graduated at Yale College in 1735; and ordained by the presbytery of east Jersey in 1737.
He became pastor at Newark.
N. J., where he was chiefly instrumental in founding the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and was elected its president in 1748.
In 1752 he married a daughter of Jonathan Edwards, the metaphysician.
In 1754 he accompanied Whitefield to Boston.
He died Sept. 24, 1757.
Vice-President of the United States; born at Newark.
N. .J., Feb. 6, 1756; a son of Rev. Aaron Burr, President of the College of New Jersey, and of a daughter of the eminent theologian, Jonathan Edwards.
When nineteen years of age, he entered the Continental army, at Cambridge, as a private soldier, and as such accompanied Arnold in his expedition to Quebec.
From the line of that expedition, in the wilderness.
Arnold sent him with despatches to General Montgomery, at Montreal, wh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colden , Cadwallader 1688 - (search)
Colden, Cadwallader 1688-
Physician; born in Dunse, Scotland, Feb. 17, 1688; graduated at the University of Edinburgh in 1705, and became a physician and
Cadwallader Colden. mathematician.
In 1708 he emigrated to Pennsylvania, and returned to his native country in 1712.
He came again to America in 1716, and in 1718 made his abode in New York, where he was made first surveyor-general of the colony, became a master in chancery, and, in 1720, obtained a seat in Governor Burnet's council.
He received a patent for lands in Orange county, N. Y., about 10 miles from Newburg, and there he went to reside in 1755.
Becoming president of the council, he administered the government in 1760, and was made lieutenantgovernor in 1761, which station he held until his death, being repeatedly placed at the head of affairs by the absence or death of governors.
During the Stamp Act excitement the populace burned his coach.
After the return of Governor Tryon in 1775, he retired to his seat on L
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Germain , Lord George , Viscount Sackville 1716 -1785 (search)
Germain, Lord George, Viscount Sackville 1716-1785
Statesman; born in England, Jan. 26, 1716; third son of the first Duke of Dorset, lord-lieutenant of Ireland; was educated there; entered the army, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-general.
He entered Parliament in 1761, and was made colonial secretary in 1775, ever evincing a most vindictive spirit towards the Americans.
He became so unpopular at home that, during the London riots in 1780, he felt compelled to barricade his house in the city.
So consonant were his views with those of the King that he was a great favorite at court.
His influence over the young King at the time of his coronation, and soon afterwards, was so well known that a handbill appeared with the words, No Lord George Sackville!
No Petticoat Government!
alluding to the influence of the monarch's mother.
He died in England, Aug. 26, 1785.
Lord George seemed to take pride an comfort in employing agents who would
Lord George Germain. incite the sa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Glendy , John 1755 -1832 (search)
Glendy, John 1755-1832
Clergyman; born in Londonderry, Ireland, June 24, 1755; educated at the University of Glasgow; came to the United States in 1799, and settled in Norfolk, Va.; was chaplain of the House of Representatives in 1815-16.
He was the author of Oration in commemoration of Washington.
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 4, 1832.