Named Entity Results, 1722 AD

Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet, 1722-1824 Military officer; born in England, of French ancestry, in 1722; educated for the army at the Royal Military College at Woolwich, and, as lieutenant, came to America in 1756, and raising 300 recruits in Pennsylvania and Maryland, formed them into a corps of field-artillery. He distinguished himself as an engineer in the siege of Louisburg (q. v.)and was aide-de-camp to Wolfe when he fell at Quebec, that general dying in Des Barres's arms. He 1722; educated for the army at the Royal Military College at Woolwich, and, as lieutenant, came to America in 1756, and raising 300 recruits in Pennsylvania and Maryland, formed them into a corps of field-artillery. He distinguished himself as an engineer in the siege of Louisburg (q. v.)and was aide-de-camp to Wolfe when he fell at Quebec, that general dying in Des Barres's arms. He was active in the retaking of Newfoundland in 1762, and for ten years afterwards he was employed in a coast survey of Nova Scotia. He prepared charts of the North American coasts in 1775 for Earl Howe, and in 1777 he published The Atlantic Neptune, in two large folios. He was made governor of Cape Breton, with the military command of Prince Edward's Island, in 1784, and in 1804, being then about eighty-two years of age, he was made lieutenant-governor of Prince Edward's Island. He died in Hal

Eden, Charles, 1673-1722 Colonial governor; born in England in 1673; appointed governor of North Carolina, July 13, 1713. During his administration he arrested the pirate Edward Teach, usually called Black-beard. He died in North Carolina, March 17, 1722.

m the obstinate turbulence of stiff-necked church-members, who, in theory, were the spiritual equals of the pastors, whom, to manage, it was necessary to humor and to suit. These ideas found expression in an unexpected quarter. Timothy Cutler, a minister of learning and great ability, was rector of Yale College in 1719. To the surprise and alarm of the people of New England, Mr. Cutler, with the tutor of the college and two ministers in the neighborhood, took occasion, on Commencement Day, 1722, to avow their conversion to Episcopacy. Cutler was at once excused from all further service in the colege, and provision was made for all future rectors to give satisfactory evidence of soundness of their faith in opposition to Arminian and prelatical corruptions. Weaker ones engaged in the revolt halted, but others persisted. Cutler became rector of a new Episcopal church in Boston, and the dismissed ministers were maintained as missionaries by the Society for the Propagation of the Go

Forsyth, John 1780- Diplomatist; born in Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 22, 1780; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1799. His parents removed to Georgia when he was quite young, and there he studied law, and was admitted to its practice about 1801. He was attorney-general of the State in 1808; member of Congress from 1813 to 1818, and from 1823 to 1827; United States Senator, and governor of Georgia from 1827 to 1829. Mr. Forsyth was United States minister to Spain in 1819-22, and negotiated the treaty that gave Florida to the United States. He opposed nullification (q. v.) in South Carolina, favored Clay's compromise act of 1833, and was United States Secretary of State front 1835 till his death, which occurred Oct. 21, 1841. Clergyman; born in Newburg, N. Y.; graduated at Rutgers in 1829; studied theology in Edinburgh University; ordained in 1834; Professor of Biblical Literature in Newburg, 1836; of Latin in Princeton in 1847-53; later again in Newburg, and occupie

Ingersoll, Jared 1749-1781 Born in Milford, Conn., in 1722; graduated at Yale in 1742; was stamp agent in 1765. He was obliged to reship the stamps he had received and to resign his office. He is the author of The Stamp act. He died in New Haven, Conn., in August, 1781. Jurist; born in Connecticut in 1749; graduated at Yale in 1766; studied law in London; returned to Philadelphia in 1771; was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780; a member of the Constitutional convention in 1787; and was the Federal candidate for the Vice-Presidency in 1812, but was defeated, receiving 86 electoral votes. He died in Philadelphia, Oct. 31, 1822.

Lowndes, Rawlins 1722-1800 Statesman; born in the British West Indies in 1722; was taken to Charleston, S. C., in early youth; became a successful lawyer, and in 1766 the crown appointed him associate judge. An earnest patriot, he was one of the committee of safety at Charleston in 1775, and in 1776 he was one of a committee to draft a constitution for the province. Mr. Lowndes opposed the national Constitution, and said in a speech, I wish no other epitaph than this: Here lies one who op1722; was taken to Charleston, S. C., in early youth; became a successful lawyer, and in 1766 the crown appointed him associate judge. An earnest patriot, he was one of the committee of safety at Charleston in 1775, and in 1776 he was one of a committee to draft a constitution for the province. Mr. Lowndes opposed the national Constitution, and said in a speech, I wish no other epitaph than this: Here lies one who opposed the federal Constitution, holding it to be fatal to the liberties of his country. He died in Charleston, S. C., Aug. 24, 1800.