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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
between the Saco and Androscoggin) and Lincoln (that part east of the Androscoggin)......June 19, 1760 Mount Desert Island granted to Governor Barnard......1762 Town of Bristol, embracing the ancient Pemaquid, incorporated......June 18, 1765 Town of Hallowell, embracing Cushnoc (Augusta) and Winslow, including Waterville, incorporated......April 26, 1771 Pepperellborough, afterwards Saco, incorporated......June 9, 1772 Belfast incorporated; first town on the Penobscot......June 22, 1773 New Gloucester incorporated......March 8, 1774 County convention, thirty-nine delegates from nine towns in Cumberland county, held at Falmouth, at which meeting Sheriff William Tyng declared his avowal to obey the province law and not that of Parliament, and which advises a firm and persevering opposition to every design, dark or open, framed to abridge our English liberties ......Sept. 21, 1774 Captain Mowatt and two companions of the British sloop-of-war Canseau are made priso
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
oseph Belknap, sergt., and James Perry, corp. The company was made up of men from Cambridge First and Second Parishes. (Capt. Locke's Company was that of his brother Benjamin Locke, which belonged to the regular Continental Army.) He was a Pct. committee man, 1791-93; Pct. clerk, 1789-1805; elected Pct. treasurer in 1787 and ‘88, but excused from serving; Pct. assessor, 1791-93, ‘95. See Wyman, 623. 7. Joseph, s. of Francis (3), m. Mary Butterfield, 19 Nov. 1772. Had (Joseph ), b. 22 June, 1773; (William ), b. 6 Jan. 1775; (Mehitable, b. 10 Jan. 1777), she m. Joseph Locke, 3d, 2 Mar. 1800; (Jonathan ), b. (12 Feb.) 1780—See Wyman's Chs., 623; Stephen, who m. Sarah Davidson, 6 Feb. 1809; Mary, who m. John Perry, 29 Jan. 1809; Abel, who m. Elizabeth Whittemore of Chas. 21 Mar. 1815; Ira, who d. 18 Oct. 1801, a. 8 yrs. Joseph the father d. suddenly, 13 Sept. 1823, a. 73 (g. s.). He was prob. the Joseph Locke, a private in William Adams's Co., Thatcher's Regt., which marched at <
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter XLI (search)
need no comment. And he prorogued the General Court to the tenth of January. Their last message, he wrote to Hillsborough, exceeds every thing. Newport, Rhode Island, witnessed still bolder resistance. A vessel with a cargo of prohibited goods was rescued from the revenue officers, whose ship Chap. XLI.} 1769. July. named Liberty, was destroyed. Hulton, Temple, Paxton, to Gov. Pitkin, 7 Aug. 1769. William Reid's Affidavit. Representation to the King of Commissioners of Inquiry, 22 June, 1773. Just as this was heard of at Boston, Hillsborough's Circular promising relief from all real grievances and a repeal of the duties on glass, paper and colors, as contrary to the true principles of commerce, was received by Bernard, and was immediately made public. At once the merchants, assembling on the twenty-seventh of July, voted unanimously, that this partial repeal was insufficient, since the duty on tea was to be retained to save the right of taxing; and it was resolved to se
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 47: (search)
ngston was wounded, took and landed its crew, and then set it on fire. Lieutenant Dudingston to Admiral Montagu, 12 June, 1772; William Checkley to Commissioner of Customs, 12 June, 1772; Governor Wanton to Hillsborough, 16 June, 1772; Admiral Montagu to Hillsborough, 12 June and 11 July, 1772; Deposition of Aaron, a negro, 11 July, 1772; Letter of Charles Dudley, 23 July, 1772. The whole was conducted on a sudden impulse; Representation to the King of the Commissioners of Inquiry, 22 June, 1773. yet Sandwich who was spoken of for the place of Colonial Secretary of State, resolved never to leave pursuing the Colony of Rhode Island, until its Charter should be taken away. Hutchinson to Samuel Hood, 2 Sept. 1772. Remembrancer for 1776, II. 60. A few punished at Execution Dock, would be the only effectual preventive of any further at- Chap. XLVII.} 1772. June. tempt, wrote Hutchinson, who wished to see a beginnin of taking men prisoners, and carrying them directly to England