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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Currency, Continental (search)
on Breed's Hill was received by the Congress. Then it was resolved that a sum not exceeding 2,000,000 Spanish milled dollars be emitted by the Congress in bills of credit for the defence of America, and that the twelve confederate colonies [Georgia was not then represented] be pledged for the redemption of the bills of credit now directed to be emitted. Each colony was required to pay its proportion, in Fac-Simile of Continental bills. four annual payments, the first by the last of November, 1779, and the fourth by the last of November, 1782. A committee appointed for the occasion reported the following day the annexed resolution: Resolved, that the number and denominations of the bills be as follows: 49,000 bills of 8 dollars each$392,000 49,000 bills of 7 dollars each343,000 49,000 bills of 6 dollars each294,000 49,000 bills of 5 dollars each245,000 49,000 bills of 4 dollars each196,000 49,000 bills of 3 dollars each147,000 49,000 bills of 2 dollars each98,000
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eliot, John, 1754-1690 (search)
ting to the progress of Christianity among the American Indians. Its full title was: A brief narrative of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England, in the year 1670, given in by the Reverend Mr. John Elliot, minister of the Gospel there, in a letter by him directed to the right Worshipfull the commissioners under his Majesties Great-seal for Propagation of the Gospel amongst the poor blind natives in John Eliot preaching to the Indians. those United colonies. London, printed for John Allen, formerly living in little-britain at the rising-sun, and now in Wentworth Street near Bel-Lane, 1671. Clergyman; born in Boston, Mass., May 31, 1754; son of Andrew Eliot; graduated at Harvard College in 1772; succeeded his father as minister of the New North Church in November, 1779; was one of the founders of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He published a Biographical dictionary of eminent characters in New England. He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 14, 1812.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll, Robert Green 1833- (search)
y of having written the first proclamation of emancipation in America—Paine the first, Lincoln the last. Paine, of all others, succeeded in getting aid for the struggling colonies from France. According to Lamartine, the King, Louis XVI., loaded Paine with favors, and a gift of six millions was confided into the hands of Franklin and Paine. On Aug. 25, 1781, Paine reached Boston, bringing 2,500,000 livres in silver, and in convoy a ship laden with clothing and military stores. In November, 1779, Paine was elected clerk to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. In 1780, the Assembly received a letter from General Washington in the field, saying that he feared the distresses in the army would lead to mutiny in the ranks. This letter was read by Paine to the Assembly. He immediately wrote to Blair McClenaghan, a Philadelphia merchant, explaining the urgency, and enclosing $500, the amount of salary due him as clerk, as his contribution towards a relief fund. The merchant called
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paine, Thomas 1737- (search)
ouse came really from the French government. This avowal, which the French and Congress both wished to conceal, drew from the French minister, Gerard, a warm protest, as it proved duplicity on the part of the French Court; and, to appease the minister, Congress, by resolution, expressly denied that any present of supplies had been received from France previous to the treaty of alliance. Paine was dismissed from office for his imprudence in revealing the secrets of diplomacy. Late in November, 1779, he was made clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly; and in that capacity read a letter to that body from General Washington, intimating that a mutiny in the army was imminent because of the distresses of the soldiers. The Assembly was disheartened. Paine wrote a letter to Blair McClenaghan, a Philadelphia merchant, stating the case, and enclosing $500 as his contribution to a relief fund. A meeting of citizens was called, when a subscription was circulated, and very soon the sum of £30
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 43: (search)
ibutive rule; and that all persons, including free negroes, mulattoes, and slaves, should be counted. Thus, to the correct principle of no representation, no taxation, and of representation in proportion to population, was added the injustice of taxation in proportion to representation; so that the continental revenue was to be sustained by a collective poll tax. Of four annual instalments, by which the continental notes were to be redeemed, the earliest was adjourned to the last day of November, 1779; in other words, was adjourned indefinitely. Paper money, which was never to be sunk but by the concurring action of twelve or thirteen colonies at distant periods, was virtually irredeemable, and would surely depreciate with rapidity; yet the united colonies had no other available resource, when they rose against a king who easily commanded annually twenty millions of pounds sterling in solid money. There was no mode of obtaining munitions of war but by throwing open the ports and i