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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Campbell, William, Lord (search)
ceived with courtesy; and soon summoned a meeting of the Assembly. They came, declined to do business, and adjourned on their own authority. The Committee of Safety proceeded in their preparations for resistance without regard to the presence of the governor. Lord Campbell professed great love for the people. His sincerity was suspected, and the hollowness of his professions was soon proved. Early in September Colonel Moultrie, by order of the Committee of Safety, proceeded to take possession of a small post on Sullivan's Island, in Charleston Harbor. The small garrison fled to the British sloops-of-war Tamar and Cherokee, lying near. Lord Campbell, seeing the storm of popular indignation against him daily increasing, particularly after it was discovered that he had attempted to incite the Indians to make war for the King, and had tampered with the Tories of the interior of the province, also fled to one of these vessels for shelter, and never returned. He died Sept. 5, 1778.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
l her fleets and armies are withdrawn and she acknowledges the independence of the coloniesAug. 11, 1778 Gen. Charles Lee by court-martial for disobedience, misbehavior, and disrespect to Washington, suspended from command for one year Aug. 12, 1778 Battle of Rhode Island Aug. 29, 1778 Americans evacuate Rhode Island, Aug. 30, and British occupy Newport Aug. 31, 1778 British under General Grey burn Bedford village, in Dartmouth, Mass., and seventy American vessels lying at the wharfs Sept. 5, 1778 Benjamin Franklin appointed minister to the Court of France Sept. 14, 1778 Massacre by Indians and Tories at Cherry Valley, N. Y. Nov. 10, 1778 British troops under Howe capture Savannah; the Americans retreat across the Savannah River Dec. 29, 1778 Northern American army hutted in cantonments from Danbury, Conn., to Elizabethtown, N. J., for the winter1778-79 Maj.-Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, commanding the Southern forces, establishes his first post at Purysburg, on the Savannah River 1
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
. dau. of Joseph (2), d. 25 Jan. 1805, a. 24. Joseph and Jason Belknap were private soldiers in the French War, and Joseph was a sergeant in the Revolutionary Army.—Paige. bell or Ball, James, d. 22 Aug. 1823, a. 30. Bellows, Samuel, of Camb. and Mary Wyeth of Charlestown (W. Camb. dist.), m. 27 Mar. 1809. Bemis, Philip, and w. Lydia adm. to the ch. 6 Oct. 1751, had Lydia, b. 26 June, bap. 6 Oct. 1751; Samuel, b. 4, bap. 14 Apr. 1754. Philip, d. of mortification and fever, 5 Sept. 1778, a. about 53. Lydia, prob. his wife, d. 6 Dec. 1825, a. 97. He was prob. s. of Philip of Camb. (see Paige, 487). See Tisdale. Philip Bemis was a Pct. committeeman and assessor 1773-75. 2. Samuel, prob. s. of Philip (1), m. Elizabeth Robinson of Lexington, 16 Nov. 1775. 3. Widow Bemis, d. 23 Mar. 1741,a. 70. Joseph—who hanged himself-d. 21 Aug. 1743. Merct, d. 13 Sept. 1774, a. 74. Eliza-Beth, d. 10 Oct. 1825, a. 98. Mary, d. 19 Oct. 1825, a. 52. Eliza-Beth, of Watertown,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
y dissensions between the minister for America in England and the highest British officials in America, and was fol- Chap. V.} 1778. lowed by never-ending complaints. Lord Carlisle and his associate commissioners deprecated the seeming purpose of enfeebling the establishment at New York by detachments for different and distant services. Under these appearances of weakness, so they reported, our cause has visibly declined. Lord Carlisle and other commissioners to Germain, New York, 5 Sept., 1778. Sir Henry Clinton threatened to evacuate New York and to retire to Halifax, Clinton to Germain, 27 July, 1778. remonstrated against being reduced to a starved defensive, Clinton to Haldimand, 9 Sept., 1778. and complained of being kept in command, a mournful witness of the debility of his army; were he only unshackled with instructions, he might render serious service. Clinton to Germain, 8 Oct., 1778. Every detachment for the southern campaign was made with sullen reluctance;