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Abbadie, M. Dā,
Royal governor: born about 1710; came to America in 1763 to take charge of a variety of business interests that King Louis XV.
had established in New Orleans, and also to exercise the authority of military commander of the province.
Owing to the sale of Louisiana to Spain, he was directed in 1764 to turn over his command to a Spanish official.
He was a man of noble impulses, had protected the Indians, caused the masters to treat their slaves more kindly, and in many ways had endeared himself to the people of the province.
The surrender of his command to those whom he regarded as enemies grieved him so seriously that he died Feb. 4, 1765.
See Louisiana; New Orlean
Baker, remember,
A captain of Green Mountain boys (q. v.); born in Woodbury, Conn., about 1740.
He went to the New Hampshire Grants in 1764, before the Allens took up their abode there.
He was a soldier in the French and Indian War, and was in the fierce battle at Ticonderoga in 1758.
He settled at Arlington, on the Grants, and was very active with Ethan Allen in resisting the claims of New York to Vermont territory.
Baker was arrested, and was cruelly treated while a prisoner, by the New-Yorkers.
The government of that province had outlawed him and set a price upon his head.
Captain Baker was with Allen when he took Ticonderoga, in May, 1775.
He was killed, while on a scout in the Continental service, by the Indians on the Sorel, the outlet of Lake Champlain, in August, 1775.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bland , Theodoric , 1742 -1790 (search)
Bland, Theodoric, 1742-1790
Military officer; born in Prince George county, Va., in 1742; was, by his maternal side, fourth in descent from Pocahontas (q. v.), his mother being Jane Rolfe.
John Randolph was his nephew.
He received the degree of M. D. at Edinburgh, returned home in 1764, and practised medicine.
Bland led volunteers in opposing Governor Dunmore, and published some bitter letters against that officer over the signature of Cassius.
He became captain of the 1st Troop of Virginia cavalry, and joined the main Continental army as lieutenant-colonel in 1777.
Brave, vigilant, and judicious, he was intrusted with the command of Burgoyne's captive troops at Albemarle Barracks in Virginia; and was member of the Continental Congress in 1780-83.
In the legislature and in the convention of his State he opposed the adoption of the national Constitution; but represented Virginia in the first Congress held under it, dying while it was in session.
Colonel Bland was a poet as w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blennerhassett , Harman , 1764 - (search)
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-
Scholar; born in Hampshire, England, Oct. 8, 1764 or 1765; was of Irish descent: educated at the University of Dublin; studied law and practised there; and in 1796 married the beautiful Adelaide Agnew, daughter of General Agnew.
who was killed in the battle at Germantown, 1777.
Being a republican in principle, he became involved in the political troubles in Ireland in 1798.
Blennerhassett's Island residence. when he sold his estates in England.
and came to America with an ample fortune.
He purchased an island in the Ohio River.
nearly opposite Marietta, built an elegant mansion, furnished it luxuriantly, and there he and his accomplished wife were living in happiness and contentment, surrounded by books.
philosophical apparatus, pictures, and other means for intellectual culture, when Aaron Burr entered that paradise, and tempted and ruined its dwellers.
A mob of militiamen laid the island waste, in a degree.
and Blennerhassett and his wife
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bouquet , Henry , 1719 -1766 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boyd , John Parker , 1764 - (search)
Boyd, John Parker, 1764-
Military officer; born in Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 21, 1764; entered the military service of the United States in 1786, but soon afterwards went to the East Indies and entered the Mahratta service, in which he rose to the rank of commander, and at one time led 10,000 men. He first raised three battalions of 500 men each, with a few English officers, whom, as well as his men, he hired, at a certain amount a month, to any of the Indian princes who needed their services.
Their equipment, including guns and elephants, was at, his own expense.
He was at one time in the pay of Holkar, in the Peishwa's service, and afterwards
John Parker Boyd. in that of Nizam Ali Khan.
Arriving at Madras in July, 1789, he was given, by the ruler, the command of 10,000) men. When demands for his services almost ceased, he sold out and went to Paris.
In 1808 he returned to the United States, and re-entered the army as colonel of the 4th Infantry on Oct. 7 of that year.
In
Brown University,
A coeducational institution; originally established under the auspices of the Baptist Church in Warren, R. I., in 1764; and incorporated under the title of Rhode Island College.
In 1770 the institution was removed to Providence where it has since remained, and in 1804 its name was changed to Brown University in recognition of the liberality of Nicholas Brown (q. v.). In 1900 the university reported seventy-five professors and instructors; 886 students in all departments; two fellowships; 100 scholarships; 5,260 graduates; 105,000 bound volumes and 35,000 pamphlets in the library; scientific apparatus valued at $340,000; ground and buildings valued at $1,177,967; productive funds aggregating $1,297,227; and total income for the year $176,923. At the 132d commencement exercises, June 20, 1900, the president announced that cash and pledges had been received within the year amounting to $1,096,106 for the new endowment fund.
On June 3, 1899, the Rev. William H. P.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke , Edmund , 1730 -1797 (search)