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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hilliard d'auberteuil, Michel Rene 1751-1785 (search)
Hilliard d'auberteuil, Michel Rene 1751-1785 Author; born in Rennes, France, Jan. 31, 1751; was a lawyer in Santo Domingo, and during the Revolutionary War visited the United States. He was the author of Historical and political essays on the Anglo-Americans; History of the administration of Lord North, from 1770 until 1782, in the War of North America, etc. He died in Santo Domingo, W. I., in 1785.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hopkins, Samuel 1807-1887 (search)
Hopkins, Samuel 1807-1887 Author; born in Hadley, Mass., April 11, 1807; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1827. His publications include The youth of the old Dominion; The Puritans and Queen Elizabeth, etc. He died in Northampton, Mass, Feb. 10, 1887. Clergyman; born in Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 17, 1721; graduated at Yale College in 1741; studied divinity with Jonathan Edwards; and became a pastor in 1743. He settled in Newport in 1770, but, during the British occupation of that place, his parish was so much impoverished that he was compelled to live on weekly contributions and the voluntary aid of a few friends the remainder of his life. Newport was a great slave-mart, and Dr. Hopkins powerfully opposed the traffic. As early as 1773 he formed a plan for evangelizing Africa and colonizing it with free negroes from America. He exerted such influence against slavery that, in 1774, Rhode Island passed a law forbidding the importation of negroes into the colony, and, early
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hopkinson, Joseph 1770-1842 (search)
Hopkinson, Joseph 1770-1842 Jurist; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1770; son of Francis; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania; became a lawyer of much repute; and was the leading counsel of Dr. Rush in his suit against Cobbett (see Cobbett, William). He was also counsel for Judge Samuel Chase (q. v.) in his impeachment trial. As a member of Congress (1816-20), he distinguished himself by his course on the tariff question, and by his opposition to a recharter of the United States Bank. In 1828 he was appointed judge of the United States district court of eastern Pennsylvania, an office which his father and grandfather had held. He was a leading member of the convention that revised the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1837. Mr. Hopkinson was vice-president of the American Philosophical Society. His best known literary production is hail, Columbia (q. v.). He died in Philadelphia, Jan. 15, 1842.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hutchinson, Thomas 1711-1780 (search)
f an accessory in the breach of those laws which he had sworn to observe. It was out of his power to have prevented this mischief without the most imminent hazard of much greater mischief. The tea could have been secured in the town in no other way than by landing marines from the men-of-war, or bringing to town the regiment which was at the castle, to remove the guards from the ships, and to take their places. This would have brought on a greater convulsion than there was any danger of in 1770, and it would not have been possible, when two regiments were forced out of town, for so small a body of troops to have kept possession of the place. Such a measure the governor had no reason to suppose would have been approved of in England. He was not sure of support from any one person in authority. The House of Representatives openly avowed principles which implied complete independency. The council, appointed by charter to be assisting to him, declared against any advice from which m
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson, William 1771-1848 (search)
Johnson, William 1771-1848 Jurist; born in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 27, 1771; graduated at Princeton in 1790; admitted to the bar in 1793; elected to the State legislature in 1794; appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1804; served until his death, in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1834. He is the author of the Life and correspondence of Maj.-Gen. Nathanael Greene. Lawyer; born in Middletown, Conn., about 1770; graduated at Yale College in 1788; reporter of the Supreme Court of New York in 1806-23, and of the New York Court of Chancery in 1814-23. He was the author of New York Supreme Court reports, 1799-1803; New York Chancery reports 1814-23; and Digest of cases in the Supreme Court of New York. He died in New York City in July, 1848.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jungman, John George 1720-1808 (search)
Jungman, John George 1720-1808 Clergyman; born in Hockheimer, Germany, April 19, 1720; became a lay evangelist to the Indians in 1742; ordained a deacon in the Moravian Church in 1770. Jungman was one of the earliest pioneers in the territory of the Ohio. In 1781 Jungman was taken prisoner by the Hurons and confined in the fort at Detroit. At the close of the war of the Revolution Jungman continued his missions among the Indians in Michigan, but, broken in health, he was obliged to give up his labors in 1785. He died in Bethlehem, Pa., July 17, 1808.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Knox, William 1732-1810 (search)
Knox, William 1732-1810 Author; born in Ireland in 1732; was provost-marshal in Georgia in 1756-61, when he returned to England; and was under-secretary of state for American affairs in 1770-83. His publications relating to the United States include A Letter to a member of Parliament; The claims of the colonies to an exemption from internal taxes; The present State of the nation; and The controversy between Great Britain and her colonies reviewed. He died in Ealing, England, Aug. 25, 1810.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Laurens, Henry 1724-1792 (search)
Laurens, Henry 1724-1792 Statesman; born in Charleston, S. C., in 1724; was of Huguenot descent, and was educated in London for mercantile business, in which he acquired a large fortune. He opposed British aggressions with speech and in writing, and pamphlets which he published displayed remarkable legal ability. He Henry Laurens. was engaged in a military campaign against the Cherokees. In 1770 he retired from business, and went to Europe the next year to superintend the education of his sons; and in England he did what he could to persuade the government to be just towards the Americans. On his arrival at Charleston, late in 1774, he was chosen president of the Provincial Congress and of the council of safety. In 1776 he was sent as a delegate to Congress, and was president of that body for a little more than a year from Nov. 1, 1777. Receiving the appointment of minister to Holland in 1779, he sailed in the Congress packet Mercury, and on Sept. 3, 1780, she was captur
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee, Ann 1736-1784 (search)
Lee, Ann 1736-1784 Founder of the American Society of Shakers; born in Manchester, England, Feb. 29, 1736; was a cook in a public institution when she married a blacksmith named Stanley. In 1758 she joined the Shakers in England. The society had just been formed by James and Jane Wardley, Quakers. About 1770 she began to prophesy against the wickedness of marriage as the root of all human depravity, and resumed her maiden name of Lee. She came to America with some followers in 1774, and in 1776 they established themselves at Niskayuna, near Watervliet, where she was the recognized leader of the sect. Being opposed to war, she was suspected of being a British emissary, and, being charged with high treason, was imprisoned at Albany and Poughkeepsie until released by Governor Clinton in 1777, when she returned to Watervliet, and there her followers greatly increased. During a religious revival in New Lebanon (since in Columbia county, N. Y.) in 1780 many persons were converted t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee, Arthur 1740-1792 (search)
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
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