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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barry , John , 1745 -1803 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , Josiah , 1729 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bemis's Heights , battles of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Benson , Egbert , 1746 -1833 (search)
Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833
Jurist; born in New York City, June 21, 1746; was graduated at King's College (now Columbia University) in 1765; took an active part in political events preliminary to the war for independence; was a member of the Committee of Safety, and, in 1777, was appointed the first attorney-general of the State of New York.
He was also a member of the first State legislature.
He was a member of the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1789, and of the new Congress from 1789 to 1793, also from 1813 to 1815.
From 1789 to 1802, he was a regent of the New York University, judge of the Supreme Court of New York (1794-1801), and of the United States Circuit Court.
He was the first president of the New York Historical Society. Judge Benson was the author of a Vindication of the captors of Major Andre;, and a Memoir on Dutch names of places.
He died in Jamaica, Long Island, Aug. 24, 1833.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blair , John , 1732 -1800 (search)
Blair, John, 1732-1800
Jurist; born in Williamsburg, Va., in 1732; was educated at the College of William and Mary; studied law at the Temple, London; soon rose to the first rank as a lawyer; was a member of the House of Burgesses as early as 1765, and was one of the dissolved Virginia Assembly who met at the Raleigh Tavern, in the summer of 1774, and drafted the Virginia non-importation agreement.
He was one of the committee who, in June, 1776, drew up the plan for the Virginia State government, and in 1777 was elected a judge of the Court of Appeals; then chief-justice, and, in 1780, a judge of the High Court of Chancery.
he was one of the framers of the national Constitution; and, in 1789.
Washington appointed him a judge of the United States Supreme Court.
He resigned his seat on the bench of that court in 1796, and died in Williamsburg, Va., Aug. 31, 1800.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bland , Theodoric , 1742 -1790 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blennerhassett , Harman , 1764 - (search)
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-
Scholar; born in Hampshire, England, Oct. 8, 1764 or 1765; was of Irish descent: educated at the University of Dublin; studied law and practised there; and in 1796 married the beautiful Adelaide Agnew, daughter of General Agnew.
who was killed in the battle at Germantown, 1777.
Being a republican in principle, he became involved in the political troubles in Ireland in 1798.
Blennerhassett's Island residence. when he sold his estates in England.
and came to America with an ample fortune.
He purchased an island in the Ohio River.
nearly opposite Marietta, built an elegant mansion, furnished it luxuriantly, and there he and his accomplished wife were living in happiness and contentment, surrounded by books.
philosophical apparatus, pictures, and other means for intellectual culture, when Aaron Burr entered that paradise, and tempted and ruined its dwellers.
A mob of militiamen laid the island waste, in a degree.
and Blennerhassett and his wife
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boone , Daniel , 1735 -1820 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boudinot , Elias , 1740 -1821 (search)
Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821
Philanthropist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1740; began the practice of law in New Jersey and was an early advocate of freedom for the American colonies.
Congress appointed him commissary-general of prisoners in 1777; and during the same year he was elected a member of that body.
He became its president in 1782, and as such he signed the ratification of the treaty of peace.
Mr. Boudinot resumed the practice of law in 1789.
In 1796 Washington appointed him superintendent of the mint, which position he held until 1805.
when he resigned all public employments, and retired to Bourlington.
On becoming trustee of the College of Princeton in 1805, he endowed it with a valuable cabinet of natural history.
Mr. Boudinot took great interest in foreign missions, and became a member of the board of commissioners in 1812; and in 1816 he was chosen the first president of the American Bible: Society (q. v.), to both of which and to benevolent institutions h