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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pakenham, Sir Edward Michael 1778- (search)
Pakenham, Sir Edward Michael 1778- Military officer; born in County Westmeath, Ireland, March 19, 1778. At the age of about fifteen years he was appointed major of light dragoons, and at twenty lieutenant-colonel of foot. In 1812 he The pecan-trees at VillereaS, New Orleans. was made major-general; served with distinction under Wellington in the Peninsular campaign; and in 1814 was intrusted with the expedition against New Orleans (q. v.), where he was killed, Jan. 8, 1815. The body of Sir Edward was conveyed to Villereas, when the viscera were removed and buried between two pecan-trees near the mansion. The rest of the body was placed in a cask of rum and conveyed to England for interment. Such was the disposition of the bodies of two or three other officers. It is said the pecan-trees never bore fruit after that year, and the negroes looked upon the spot with superstitious awe.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State government. (search)
Britain. The recommendation was generally followed, but not without opposition. New Hampshire had prepared a temporary State government in January, 1776. The royal charters of Rhode Island and Connecticut were considered sufficient for independent local self-government. New Jersey adopted a State constitution July 2, 1776; Virginia, July 5; Pennsylvania, July 15; Maryland, Aug. 14; Delaware, Sept. 20; North Carolina, Dec. 18: Georgia, Feb. 5, 1777; New York, April 20; South Carolina, March 19, 1778; and Massachusetts, March 2, 1780. For all practical purposes—even to the extent of alterations of the constitutions, except in a few States where different provisions were made—the supreme power was vested in the respective legislatures, which, excepting Pennsylvania and Georgia, consisted of two branches. The more numerous branch retained the name it had borne in colonial times. In Massachusetts and other States it was the House of Representatives; in Virginia, the House of Burges
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
n the Declaration of Independence......1776 Colonel Williamson, with 2,000 men, marches against the Cherokees, Sept. 13, and lays waste all their settlements east of the Apalachian Mountains......September, 1776 Cherokee Indians by treaty cede to South Carolina all their land eastward of the Unaka Mountains......May 20, 1777 Henry Laurens, of South Carolina, chosen president of the Continental Congress......Nov. 1, 1777 Constitution passed by the General Assembly as an act, March 19, 1778, goes into effect......November, 1778 State Supreme Court declares the constitutions of 1776 and 1778 acts of General Assembly, which it could repeal or amend......1779 Maj.-Gen. Benjamin Lincoln takes command of all the forces to the southward; establishes his first post at Purysburg on the Savannah River......1779 President Lowndes lays a general embargo, and prohibits the sailing of vessels from any port of the State......1779 British under Major Gardiner driven from Port