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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duane , James , 1733 -1797 (search)
Duane, James, 1733-1797
Jurist; born in New York City, Feb. 6, 1733; inherited a large estate at the site of Duanesburg, which he began to settle in 1765.
In 1759 he married a daughter of Col. Robert Livingston.
He became an active patriot in the Revolution; was a member of the first Continental Congress (1774); also in Congress from 1780 to 1782; was in the Provincial Convention of New York in 1776-77; and was on the committee to draft the first constitution of that State.
He returned to New York City in 1783, after the evacuation, and was the first mayor of that city after the Revolution.
In 1783-84 he was a member of the council and State Senator, and in 1788 was a member of the convention of New York that adopted the national Constitution.
From 1789 to 1794 he was United States district judge.
He died in Duanesburg, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1797.
Late in May, 1775, Judge Duane moved in Congress, in committee of the whole, the opening of negotiations in order to accommodate the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duer , William , 1747 -1799 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dunlap , William , 1766 -1839 (search)
Dunlap, William, 1766-1839
Painter, dramatist, and historian; born in Perth Amboy, N. J., Feb. 19, 1766.
His father, being a loyalist, went to New York City in 1777, where William began to paint.
He made a portrait of Washington at Rocky Hill, N. J., in 1783.
The next year he went to England and received instructions from Benjamin West.
He became an actor for a short time, and in 1796 was one of the managers of the John Street Theatre, New York.
He took the Park Theatre in 1798.
From 1814 to 1816 he was paymaster-general of the New York State militia.
He began a series of paintings in 1816.
In 1833 he published a History of the American theatres, and in 1834 a History of the Arts of design. His history of New Netherland and the State of New York was published in 1840. Mr. Dunlap was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design.
He died in New York City, Sept. 28, 1839.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dwight , Timothy 1752 -1817 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ellsworth , Oliver , 1745 -1807 (search)
Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807
Ll.D., jurist; born in Windsor, Conn., April 29, 1745;
Oliver Ellsworth. graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1766; was admitted to the bar in 1771; practised in Hartford, Conn.; and was made State attorney.
When the Revolutionary War was kindling he took the side of the patriots in the legislature of Connecticut, and was a delegate in Congress from 1777 to 1780.
He became a member of the State council, and in 1784 was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court. Judge Ellsworth was one of the framers of the national Constitution, but, being called away before the adjournment of the convention, his name was not attached to that instrument.
He was the first United States Senator from Connecticut (1789-95), and drew up the bill for organizing the Judiciary Department.
In 1796 he was made chief-justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and at the close of 1799 he was one of the envoys to France.
He died in Windsor, Nov. 26, 1807.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federal Union , the John Fiske (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ferguson , Patrick 1777 - (search)
Ferguson, Patrick 1777-
Military officer; born in England; son of Judge James Ferguson and a nephew of Lord Elibank; entered the British army at the age of eighteen, and came to America in the spring of 1777, serving under Cornwallis, first in the North and then in the South.
After the siege of Charleston in 1780 he was promoted to major, and was detached by Cornwallis to embody the Tories in South Carolina.
He was killed in the battle of King's Mountain (q. v.), Oct. 7, 1780.
Ferguson, Patrick 1777-
Military officer; born in England; son of Judge James Ferguson and a nephew of Lord Elibank; entered the British army at the age of eighteen, and came to America in the spring of 1777, serving under Cornwallis, first in the North and then in the South.
After the siege of Charleston in 1780 he was promoted to major, and was detached by Cornwallis to embody the Tories in South Carolina.
He was killed in the battle of King's Mountain (q. v.), Oct. 7, 1780.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fish , Nicholas 1758 -1833 (search)
Fish, Nicholas 1758-1833
Military officer; born in New York City, Aug. 28, 1758; studied law in the office of John Morin Scott, and was on his staff as aide in the spring of 1776.
In June he was made brigademajor, and in November major of the 2d New York Regiment. Major Fish was in the battles at Saratoga in 1777; was division inspector in 1778; and commanded a corps of light infantry in the battle of Monmouth.
He served in Sullivan's expedition in 1779; under Lafayette, in Virginia, in 1781; and was at the surrender of Cornwallis, behaving gallantly during the siege.
For many years after 1786, Fish, who had become lieutenantcolonel during the war, was adjutantgeneral of the State of New York, and was appointed supervisor of the United States revenue in 1794.
In 1797 he became president of the New York State Cincinnati Society.
He died in New York City, June 20, 1833.