Named Entity Results, 1783 AD

Viomenil, Antoine Charles du Houx, Baron de 1728-1782 Military officer; born in Fauconcourt, Visages, France, Nov. 30, 1728. He attained the rank of major-general in the French army; and in 1780 was appointed second in command of Count de Rochambeau's troops which were sent to assist the American colonists; was promoted lieutenant-general in 1781, and given the grand cross of St Louis for services at the siege of Yorktown. After the war he was governor of La Rochelle, in 1783-89. He died in Paris, Nov. 9, 1782. His brother, Charles Joseph Hyacinthe du Houx, Marquis De Viomenil; born in the castle of Ruppes, Vosges, Aug. 22, 1734; attained the rank of majorgeneral in the French army; accompanied Count de Rochambeau to the United States as commander of the French artillery, and took a prominent part in the siege of Yorktown, for which he was granted a pension of 5,000 francs. He died in Paris, March 5, 1827. Virginia, colony of

Wadsworth, James 1730-1817 Military officer; born in Durham, Conn., July 6, 1730; graduated at Yale College in 1748; was a member of the committee of safety at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War; became brigadier-general of Connecticut militia in 1776, and major-general in 1777, when he was assigned to the defence of the coast towns of his State. Later he presided over the New Haven county court of common pleas, and was a member of the Continental Congress in 1783-86. He died in Durham, Conn., Sept. 22, 1817.

laration of Independence; born in Frederick county, Va., in 1740; was early apprenticed to a carpenter, who would not allow him a candle to read by; but he found a substitute in pine knots. He was admitted to the bar in Georgia in 1774, and was one of four persons who called a meeting at Savannah (July 27, 1774) to consult upon measures for the defence of the liberties of their country. Mr. Walton was one of the committee who prepared a petition to the King; also patriotic resolutions adopted on that occasion. From February, 1776, to October, 1781, he was a delegate in Congress from Georgia, and warmly favored the resolution for independence. As colonel of militia, he assisted in defending Savannah in December, 1778, where he was dangerously wounded, made prisoner, and kept so until September, 1779. In 1779 and 1789 he was chosen governor of Georgia; in 1783 was appointed chief-justice of the State; and in 1795-96 was United States Senator. He died in Augusta, Ga., Feb. 2, 1804.

At the return of peace he surrendered his commission into the hands of Congress, who gave it to him, and retired to private life at Mount Vernon, at the close of 1783. During all the national perplexities after the return of peace, incident to Houdon's bust of Washington. there were several different portraits of Washingect, plainest, easiest, and least liable to exception. Again, in a letter to Sir Edward Newenham, Oct. 20, 1792: Of all the animosities which have Private seal, 1783. existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depre the series of Old South leaflets are many which will be of use in this connection. Among these are Washington's circular letter to the governors of the States in 1783 (No. 15), Washington's letter to Benjamin Harrison in 1784 (No. 16), Selections from the debates in the constitutional convention (No. 70), Selections from the Fed

Washington monument. On Feb. 22, 1885, the Washington Monument was formally dedicated by Robert C. Winthrop, the man who laid its corner-stone in 1848. The first movement towards the erection of this monument was made as early as 1783, when the Continental Congress passed a resolution recommending the erection of an equestrian statue of Washington, supported by four marble pedestals showing the principal events in the war which he had successfully conducted. After his death, in December, 1799, the House and Senate passed a joint resolution for the erection of a monument under which his body should be placed; but Congress failed to provide for the execution of the work, and the matter was allowed to drop. In 1816 an unsuccessful effort was made by James Buchanan, then a young Congressman from Pennsylvania, to revive an interest in the monument which should lead to its construction. Twenty-five years later an association known as the Washington monument Society was formed, and

ia. Colfax remained in command of the corps until the disbanding of the army in 1783. The members of the guard were chosen with special reference to their excellencted States, in Congress assembled, ordered this statue to be erected in the year of our Lord 1783, in honor of George Washington, the illustrious commander-in-chief o session it was brought up, and reference was made to the resolve of Congress in 1783. The bill for a mausoleum finally passed the House, with an appropriation of $2appan, 1780; Moore's house, Yorktown, Va., 1781; Hasbrouch House, Newburg, 1782, 1783; Farm-house at Rocky Hill, N. J., near Princeton, 1783; and Fraunce's Tavern, co1783; and Fraunce's Tavern, corner of Broad and Pearl streets, New York City, where he parted with his officers, 1783. During his whole military career Washington never received the slightest p1783. During his whole military career Washington never received the slightest personal injury. In the desperate battle on the Monongahela, where Braddock was mortally wounded, Washington was the only officer unhurt. To his mother he wrote: I l

Waterbury, David 1722-1801 Military officer; born in Stamford, Conn., Feb. 12, 1722. He took part in the French and Indian War, being present at the battle of Lake George in 1755 and the attack on Ticonderoga in 1758; was with Gen. Richard Montgomery in his campaign against Quebec, in 1775; at the siege of St. John and the surrender of Montreal. On June 3, 1776, he was appointed a brigadiergeneral for the Northern Department by the General Assembly of Connecticut, and assigned to the command of the post at Skeensboro, N. Y., where he remained during the summer of 1776. In the battle of Valcour Bay, Oct. 11, 1776, he was captured with his vessel, the Washington, but was soon exchanged; and during the remainder of the war commanded a brigade under Washington. He was a representative in the General Assembly in 1783, 1794, and 1795. He died in Stamford, Conn., June 29, 1801.

Watson, John Tadwell 1748-1826 Military officer; born in London, England, in 1748; entered the 3d Foot Guards in 1767; became lieutenant and captain in 1778. He undertook the destruction of Gen. Francis Marion's brigade in 1781, and after several skirmishes fled to Georgetown. He became colonel in 1783, and general in 1808. He died in Calais, France, June 11, 1826.

Webster, Noah 1758- Philologist; born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 16, 1758; graduated at Yale College in 1778, and was admitted to the bar in 1781. The next year he opened a classical school at Goshen, N. Y., and in 1783 published at Hartford his First part of a grammatical Institute of the English language, which was soon followed by the second and third parts. His American spelling-book was published in 1783. In 1785 he visited the Southern Noah Webster. States to find aid in procuring 1783. In 1785 he visited the Southern Noah Webster. States to find aid in procuring the enactment of State copyright laws; and in 1789 he published Dissertations on the English language, a series of lectures which he had delivered in various American cities in 1786. Webster was at the head of an academy at Philadelphia in 1787, and took great interest in the proceedings of the convention there that framed the national Constitution. In 1788 he published the American magazine in New York, and returned to Hartford in 1789 and practised law. In 1793 he edited and published in N

Willard, Solomon 1783-1862 Architect; born in Petersham, Mass., June 26, 1783; removed to Boston in 1804, and there became a skilled wood-carver. In 1815 he turned his attention to carving in stone and was engaged to ornament many of the public buildings in Boston; was selected as architect and superintendent of the Bunker Hill Monument, Nov. 2, 1825. He completed this work July 23, 1842, and in the following year, on the anniversary of the battle, a celebration was held in which the President of the United States and his cabinet and citizens from all parts of the country participated. He introduced the first granite paving-stones ever used in Boston, and proved the value of granite as a building material. He died in Quincy, Mass., Feb. 27, 1862.