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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809 (search)
Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809 royal governor; born in Scotland in 1732; was descended in the feminine line from the house of Stuart. He was made governor of New York in January, 1770, and of Virginia, July, 1771, arriving there early in 1772. When the Virginia Assembly recommended a committee of correspondence (March, 1773), he Seal of Lord Dunmore. immediately dissolved it, and in May, 1774, he again dissolved the Assembly because it had passed a resolution making the Ist of June a day of fasting and prayer. This was the same day which had been appointed by the Massachusetts legislature for the same purpose. In 1775, finding the people of his colony committed to the cause of freedom, he engaged in a conspiracy to bring the Indians in hostile array against the Virginia frontier. He employed Dr. John Connelly, whom he had commissioned in 1774 to lead a movement for sustaining the claims of Virginia to the whole district of Pennsylvania west of Lord Dunmore'
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 14: civil History. (search)
ollow-probably paid for the use of rooms by ing:— The Selectmen of the town of Cambridge to Ebenr. Bradish,Dr. March, 1769, To dinners and drink,£ 0. 17. 8 April, To flip and punch,0. 2. 0 May 1, To wine and eating,0. 6. 8 May, To dinners, drink and suppers,0. 18. 0 To flip and cheese,0. 1. 8 To wine and flip,0. 4. 0 June, To punch,0. 2. 8 July, To punch and eating,0. 4. 0 August, To punch and cheese,0. 3. 7 Oct., To punch and flip,0. 4. 8 To dinners and drink,0. 13. 8 Dec., Jan., 1770, & Feb., Sundries,0. 12. 0 ———— £ 4. 10. 7 John Jackson kept a public house near the northwesterly angle of Brattle Street and Brattle Square, probably from about 1672 until 1695, when he was succeeded by Capt. Josiah Parker, who purchased the estate in 1699, and was an inn-holder as late as 1725, and perhaps until he died in July or August, 1731. It does not distinctly appear whether Samuel Gibson was an innholder; but in 1672 he was punished for unlawfully entertaining stud
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
Chapter 42: The non-importation agreement enforced.—the New Tory party installed in power. August 1769,—January 1770. the Lieutenant Governor well understands my Chap. XLII.} 1769. Aug. system, Bernard to Hillsborough, 29 April, 1769. said Bernard, as he transferred the Government. Hutchinson was descended from one of the earliest settlers of Massachusetts and loved the land of his birth. A native of Boston, he was its representative for ten years, during three of which he wasr resentment. The Colonies left their native land for freedom and found it in a desert. Looking forward to independence, they equally detest the pageantry of a King and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop. The meeting of Parliament in January, 1770, 1770. Jan. would decide, whether the British Empire was to escape dismemberment. Chatham recommended to the more liberal aristocracy Fitzwilliam to Rockingham, 1769; in Albemarle, II. 142. Chatham to Rockingham, Id. 193. that junction
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 43: (search)
within fifteen miles; and they thought it not incumbent on them to interrupt the proceedings. He sent the sheriff into the adjourned meeting of the merchants with a letter to the moderator, requiring them in his Majesty's name to disperse; and the meeting, of which justices of peace, selectmen, representatives, constables and other officers made a part, sent him an answer, that their Assembly was warranted by law. He saw that the answer was in Hancock's handwriting, Hutchinson to——, January, 1770. and he treasured up the autograph to be produced one day, when Hancock should be put on trial. The news from Boston spread through the country. It is hard, said Trumbull, now Governor of Connecticut, to break connections with our mother country; but when she strives to enslave us, the strictest union must be dissolved. Gov. Jona. Trumbull to W. S. Johnson, 29 January, 1770. And as he looked through the world, he exclaimed: The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice, and the multitu
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Meeting-house brook and the second Meeting-house. (search)
, tall and imposing in the moonlight, and pressing westward along High street crossed the wooden bridge over Meeting-house brook. The hurrying hoofs awoke no echoes from the old meeting-house, for long ago it had been removed, having been sold at auction August 7, 1770, to Mr. John Laith for, £ 24 (O. T.); its underpinning to Mr. Benjamin Hall for £ 13, 6s. 8d., in April 1771. The land whereon it stood was bought by Mr. Ebenezer Hall, Jr., for £ 197 (O. T.) The bell had been removed in January, 1770, to the Third Meetinghouse. I have given you very little that is new or in any wise original. I have sought simply to dress up the old records; to keep in the line of truth, and present a pleasant picture by word and brush of those days when Medford was young and provided a sure, though movable, foundation for the things of the kingdom of God, of which we all are inheritors. Andrew Hall, Esq. His widow's dower set off. Official copies of documents in possession of Medford His