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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kirkland , Samuel 1741 -1808 (search)
Kirkland, Samuel 1741-1808
Missionary; born in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 1, 1741; graduated at Princeton in 1765.
At the school of Rev. E. Wheelock, he learned the Mohawk language, and, by sojourns among the Senecas, their language also.
After the affair at Lexington, the provincial congress of Massachusetts requested him to use his influence to secure
Samuel Kirkland. either the friendship or neutrality of the Six Nations.
He was instrumental in attaching the Oneidas to the patriot cause.
He labored with that nation as a missionary of religion and patriotism during the war, when the other tribes of that confederacy, through the influence of Brant and the Johnsons, had taken the opposite side.
He accompanied Sullivan in his expedition against the Senecas in 1779. Mr. Kirkland was the founder of Hamilton College.
Having been granted by the government a tract of land 2 miles square in the present town of Kirkland, Oneida co., N. Y., he removed there in 1789.
He died in Clinton,
Lee, Arthur 1740-1792
Diplomatist; born in Stratford, Westmoreland co., Va., Dec. 20, 1740.
Educated in Europe, and taking the degree of M. D. at Edinburgh in 1765, he began practice in Williamsburg, Va. He afterwards studied law in England, and wrote political essays that gained him the acquaintance of Dr. Johnson, Burke, and other eminent men. He was admitted to the bar in 1770, and appointed the alternative of Dr. Franklin as agent of the Massachusetts Assembly, in case of the disability or absence of the latter.
For his services to that State he received 4,000 acres of land in 1784.
In 1775 Dr. Lee was appointed London correspondent of Congress, and in 1776 he was one of the commissioners of Congress sent to France to negotiate for supplies and a treaty; but the ambition of Lee produced discord, and his misrepresentations caused one of the commissioners—Silas Deane (q. v.) —to be recalled.
Lee was subsequently a member of Congress, of the Virginia Assembly, a commissioner
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee , Francis Lightfoot 1734 -1797 (search)
Lee, Francis Lightfoot 1734-1797
Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Stratford, Westmoreland co., Va., Oct. 14, 1734; brother of Richard Henry and Arthur Lee. In 1765 he was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and held that post until 1772.
He was in the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1779, and was active and efficient in framing the Articles of Confederation.
He was afterwards a State Senator.
He died in Richmond, Va., April 3, 1797.
Lewis, Francis 1713-
Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Llandaff, Wales, in March, 1713; educated at Westminster School, he became a merchant, and emigrated to America in 1734.
He was aide to Colonel Mercer after the capture of Oswego by the French in 1757, and was, with other prisoners, taken to Canada and thence to France.
For his services the British government gave him 5,000 acres of land.
Patriotic and active, he was a member of the Stamp Act Congress in 1765.
He was a delegate from New York in the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1779.
Settled on Long Island, which abounded with Tories, he suffered much from the destruction of his property by this class of citizens.
They caused the death of his wife by brutally confining her in a prison for several months.
To his patriotism he sacrificed most of his property, and died poor, in New York City, Dec. 30, 1802.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Liberty tree. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Livingston , Robert R. 1747 -1813 (search)
Livingston, Robert R. 1747-1813
Statesman; born in New York City, Nov. 27, 1747; graduated at King's College in 1765; practised law successfully in New York, and was made recorder of the city in 1773.
Of this office he was deprived early in 1775, because of his espousal of the patriot cause.
He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775, and was one of the committee appointed to draft a declaration of independence, but his necessary absence from Congress prevented his signing it. On the organization of the State of New York under a constitution, he was appointed chancellor, and held that post until 1801.
In 1780 he was again a member of Congress, and was secretary for foreign affairs from 1781 to 1783. Mr. Livingston was a member of the convention of New York which adopted the national Constitution, and voted for it. Minister plenipotentiary to France, from 1801 to 1804, he secured the secession of Louisiana (q. v.) to the United States.
He was the coadjutor of Fulton in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louis Xvi King of France (search)
Louis Xvi., King of France
Born in Versailles, Aug. 23, 1754; was a grandson of Louis XV.
and of a daughter of Frederick Augustus, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony.
His father dying in 1765, he became heir presumptive to the throne of France, which he ascended on May 10, 1774, with the beautiful Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, whom he married in May, 1770, as his Queen.
Louis was amiable, fond of simple enjoyments, and was beloved by his people.
Through bad advisers and the wickedness of demagogues, he was placed in seeming opposition to the people when his heart was really with them, and the madmen of France, who ruled the realm during the Reign of Terror, brought both Louis and his beautiful Queen to the scaffold.
They went through the farce of a trial after
Louis Xvi. arraigning the King on a charge of treason, found him guilty, of course, and beheaded him by the guillotine, with accompaniments of vulgar cruelty, in Paris, Jan. 21, 1793.
His death was ser
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McKean , Thomas 1734 -1817 (search)
McKean, Thomas 1734-1817
Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in New London, Chester co., Pa., March 19, 1734; was admitted to the bar in 1757, and chosen clerk of the Assembly.
He was a member of that body for the county of New Castle, from 1762 to 1779, and mem ber of the Stamp Act Congress in 1765.
He and Lynch and Otis framed the address to the British Parliament.
He held several local offices, and in 1774 was a member of the Continental Congress, to which he was annually elected until 1783.
McKean was the only man who was a member of that body continually during the whole period of the war. He was active in procuring a unanimous vote for the Declaration of Independence, and was one of the committee that drew up the Articles of Confederation.
From 1777 till 1779 he held the office of president of the State of Delaware; also executed the duties of chief-justice of Pennsylvania.
He was hunted like a fox, he said, by the British, removing his family five times in
Mifflin, Thomas -1800
Military officer; born of Quaker parents, in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1744; was educated in the Philadelphia College; visited Europe in 1765, and, on his return, became a merchant.
Having served in the legislature of Pennsylvania,
Thomas Mifflin. he was chosen a member of the first Continental Congress in 1774; was appointed major of one of the first regiments raised in Philadelphia, and accompanied Washington as aide-de-camp to Cambridge in the summer of 1775.
All through the Revolutionary War Mifflin was a faithful and efficient officer, rising to the rank of major-general in 1777.
He was eloquent in speech, and was efficient in rousing his countrymen to action when necessary.
In this way, traversing Pennsylvania, he caused large numbers of its citizens to flock to the standard of Washington before the attack on the enemy at Trenton.
He was quartermaster-general, and, in 1777, was a member of the board of war.
Mifflin was one of Conway's cabal, a co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan , John 1735 -1789 (search)
Morgan, John 1735-1789
Physician; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1735; graduated at the Philadelphia College in 1757; studied medicine; and served as a surgeon of Pennsylvania troops in the French and Indian War, after which he went to England.
He attended the lectures of the celebrated Dr. Hunter; and after spending two years in Edinburgh, and receiving the degree of M. D., he travelled on the Continent.
On his return to London (1765) he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, also of the College of Physicians in Edinburgh and London.
Returning to Philadelphia the same year, he was elected to a professorship in the College of Philadelphia, in which he founded a medical school.
When the treason of Church was
John Morgan. discovered, Dr. Morgan was appointed, by the Continental Congress (Oct. 17, 1775), director-general of the Army General Hospital, in which capacity he served until 1777. Dr. Morgan was one of the founders of the American Philosophical Society.
He died i