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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abercrombie , James , 1706 - (search)
Agnew, James,
A British general; came to America late in 1775; participated in the military movements in and about Boston: and was engaged in the battle of Long Island, where, and in subsequent campaigns, he commanded the 4th Brigade of the royal army.
He accompanied ex-Governor Tryon in his marauding expedition to Danbury, Conn., in the spring of 1777.
He was slightly wounded in the battle of Brandywine (Sept. 11), and in the battle of Germantown (Oct. 4, 1777) he was killed.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alexander , William , 1726 -1783 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anderson , Alexander , 1775 - (search)
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-
The first engraver on wood in America; born in New York, April 21, 1775.
His father was a Scotchman, who printed a Whig newspaper in New York, called The constitutional gazette, until he was driven from the city by the British in 1776.
At the age of twelve years young Anderson made quite successful attempts at engraving on copper and type-metal, and two or three years later he began the study of medicine.
In 1796 he received the degree of M. D. from Columbia College, writing for the occasion a thesis on Chronic mania.
He
Alexander Anderson. practised the profession for a few years, and engraved at the same time, liking that employment better.
After the yellow fever in 1798 had swept away nearly his whole family, he abandoned the practice of medicine and made engraving his life profession.
Having seen an edition of Bewick's History of quadrupeds, illustrated with wood-engravings by that master, Anderson first learned that Wood was used for such a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbuthnot , Marriott , -1794 (search)
Arbuthnot, Marriott, -1794
British naval officer; born about 1711; became a post-captain in 1747.
From 1775 to 1778 he was naval commissioner resident at Halifax,
Marriott Arbuthnot. Nova Scotia.
Having been raised to the rank of vice-admiral in 1779, he obtained the chief command on the American station, and was blockaded by the Count d'estaing in the harbor of New York.
In the spring of 1780 he co-operated with Sir Henry Clinton in the siege of Charleston, S. C. In February, 1793, he became admiral of the blue.
He died in London, Jan. 31, 1794.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Armstrong , John , 1758 -1843 (search)
Armstrong, John, 1758-1843
Military officer; born in Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1758.
While a student at Princeton, in 1775, he became a volunteer in Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, and was soon afterwards made an aide-de-camp to General Mercer.
He was afterwards placed on the staff of General Gates, and remained so from the beginning of that officer's campaign against Burgoyne until the end of the war, having the rank of major.
Holding a facile pen, he was employed to write the famous
John Armstrong. Newburgh addresses.
They were powerfully and eloquently written.
After the war he was successively Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; and in 1784 he conducted operations against the settlers in the Wyoming Valley.
The Continental Congress in 1787 appointed him one of the judges for the Northwestern Territory, but he declined.
Two years later he married a sister of Chancellor Livingston, removed to New York, purchased a farm within the precincts of the old
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Avery , Waightstill , 1745 -1821 (search)
Avery, Waightstill, 1745-1821
Lawyer; born in Groton, Conn.. May 3, 1745; studied law in Maryland.
and began its practice in Mecklenburg county, N. C., in 1769.
He was prominent there among the opposers of the obnoxious measures of the British Parliament bearing on the colonies, and was one of the promoters and signers of the famous Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
He was a delegate to the Provincial Congress at Hillsborough in 1775 which organized the military forces of the State: and in the summer of 1776 he joined the army, under General Rutherford, in the Cherokee country.
He was a commissioner in framing the treaty of Holston, which effected peace on the Western frontier.
Mr. Avery was active in civil affairs; and in 1779 was colonel of the county militia, serving with great zeal during the British invasion of North Carolina.
He removed to Burke county in 1781, which he represented in the State legislature many years.
He was the first State attorney-general of
Barney, Joshua, 1759-
Naval officer; born in Baltimore, Md., July 6, 1759.
Inclined to a seafaring life, he went to sea in his early youth: and when he was only sixteen years of age, an accident caused the care of his ship to devolve upon him. He met the exigency with courage and skill.
He entered the Continental navy, at its first organization in 1775, as master's mate, in the sloop Hornet, and joined Commodore Hopkins.
In an action between the Continental schooner Wasp and British brig Tender, in Delaware Bay, before he was seventeen years of age, his conduct was so gallant that he was made a lieutenant.
In that capacity he served in the Sachem (Capt. I. Robinson), and after a severe action with a British brig, in which his commander was wounded, young Barney brought her into port.
Soon afterwards he was made a prisoner, but was speedily released, and in the Andrea Doria he was engaged in the defence of the Delaware River in 1777.
He was again made prisoner, and was exchan
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , Josiah , 1729 - (search)