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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , Josiah , 1729 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beaumarchais , Pierre Augutstin caron de , 1732 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bedel , Timothy , 1740 -1787 (search)
Bedel, Timothy, 1740-1787
Military officer; born in Salem, N. H., about 1740; was a brave and faithful officer in the war for independence.
He was attached to the Northern army, and had the full confidence and esteem of General Schuyler, its commander.
He was captain of rangers in 1775, and early in 1776 was made colonel of a New Hampshire regiment.
He was with Montgomery at the capture of St. John's on the Sorel, and was afterwards in command at the Cedars, not far from Montreal, where a cowardly surrender bv a subordinate, in Bedel's absence, caused the latter to be tried by a court-martial, on a false charge, made by General Arnold.
He was deprived of command for a while, but was reinstated.
He died at Haverhill, N. H., in February, 1787.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beebe , Bezaleel , 1741 -1824 (search)
Beebe, Bezaleel, 1741-1824
Military officer; born in Litchfield, Conn., April 28, 1741; was one of the Rogers Rangers, and was engaged in the fight in which Putnam was taken, also in the capture of Montreal in 1760.
In July, 1775, he was commissioned lieutenant and sent to Boston.
In 1776 he saw active service in New York and New Jersey, and was taken prisoner at the capture of Fort Washington and confined in New York nearly a year.
Towards the end of the Revolution he was appointed brigadier-general and commander of all the Connecticut troops for sea-coast defence.
He died in Litchfield, May 29, 1824.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Biddle , Clement , 1740 -1814 (search)
Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814
Military officer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 10, 1740; was descended from one of the early Quaker settlers in western New Jersey, and when the war for independence broke out he assisted in raising a company of soldiers in Philadelphia.
He was deputy quartermaster-general of Pennsylvania militia in 1776, and commissary of forage under General Greene.
On the organization of the national government he was appointed United States marshal for Pennsylvania.
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 14, 1814.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Biddle , Nicholas , 1750 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bland , Richard , 1710 -1776 (search)
Bland, Richard, 1710-1776
Statesman: born in Virginia.
May 6, 1710; was educated at the College of William and Mary; became a fine classical scholar, and was an oracle touching the rights of the colonies.
He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1745 until his death — a period of thirty-one years; and he was one of the most active of its patriotic members.
In 1774 he was a delegate in the Continental Congress, but declined to serve the next year.
In 1766 he published one of the ablest tracts of the time, entitled An inquiry into the rights of the British colonies.
He died in Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 26, 177
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bollan , William , 1740 -1776 (search)
Bollan, William, 1740-1776
Lawyer; born in England; came to America about 1740, and settled in Boston.
He married a daughter of Governor Shirley, of Massachusetts, and was appointed collector of customs at Salem and Marblehead.
In 1745 he was sent to England to solicit the reimbursement of more than $800,000 advanced by Massachusetts for the expedition against Cape Breton.
He was successful ; and became agent for Massachusetts in 1762, but was dismissed.
Being in England in 1769, he obt and General Gage, calumniating the colonists, and sent then to Boston.
For this act he was denounced in Parliament.
He strongly recommended the British government to pursue conciliatory measures towards the colonists in 1775: and in various ways, in person and in writing, he showed his warm friendship for the Americans.
Mr. Bollan wrote several political pamphlets relating to American affairs: and in 1774 he presented.
as colonial agent, a petition to the King in council.
He died in 1776.
Brant, Joseph,
(Thay-en-da-ne-gen). Mohawk chief; born on the banks of the Ohio River in 1742.
In 1761 Sir William Johnson sent him to Dr. Wheelock's school at Hanover.
N. H., where he translated portions of the New Testament into the Mohawk language.
Brant engaged in the war against Pontiae in 1763, and at
Joseph Brant. the beginning of the war for independence was secretary to Guy Johnson, the Indian Superintendent.
In the spring of 1776 he was in England; and to the ministry he expressed his willingness, and that of his people, to join in the chastisement of the rebellious colonists.
It was an unfavorable time for him to make such an
The Brant mausoleum. offer with an expectation of securing very favorable arrangements for his people, for the minstry were elated with the news of the disasters to the rebels at Quebee.
Besides, they had completed the bargain for a host of German mercenaries, a part of whom were then on their way to America to crush the rebellion.
They
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brickett , James , 1737 -1818 (search)
Brickett, James, 1737-1818
Military officer: born in 1737; was a physician in Haverhill, Mass., until the beginning of the French and Indian War; was a surgeon in the army at Ticonderoga; was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill; appointed brigadier-general in the expedition designed for Canada in 1776; and commanded the American escort of Burgoyne's surrendered army from the Saratoga battle-field to Cambridge, Mass., in 1777.
He died in Haverhill.
Mass., Dec. 9, 1818.