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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams, John Quincy, 1767- (search)
ssociates in arms, the warriors of the Revolution; over the prostration of the public credit and the faith of the nation in the neglect to provide for the payment even of the interest upon the public debt; over the disappointed hopes of the friends of freedom; in the language of the address from Congress to the States of the 18th of April, 1783, The pride and boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature. At his residence in Mount Vernon, in March, 1785, the first idea was started of a revisal of the Articles of Confederation by an organization of means differing from that of a compact between the State legislatures and their own delegates in Congress. A convention of delegates from the State legislatures, independent of the Congress itself, was the expedient which presented itself for effecting the purpose, and an augmentation of the powers of Congress for the regulation of commerce as the object for which this assembly was to be conve
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frankland, state of. (search)
orth Carolina Assembly, willing to compromise, repealed the act of cession the same year, made the Tennessee counties a separate military district, with John Sevier as brigadier-general, and also a separate judicial district, with proper officers. But ambitious men urged the people forward, and at a second convention, at the same place, Dec. 14, 1784, they resolved to form an independent State, under the name of Frankland. A provisional government was formed; Sevier was chosen governor (March, 1785); the machinery of an independent State was put in motion, and the governor of North Carolina (Martin) was informed that the counties of Sullivan, Washington, and Greene were no longer a part of the State of North Carolina. Martin issued a proclamation, exhorting all engaged in the movement to return to their duty; and the Assembly passed an act of oblivion as to all who should submit. But the provisional constitution of Frankland, based upon that of North Carolina, was adopted (Novemb
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
Belcher assumed the office, Aug., 1730 William Shirley assumed the office, July, 1741 Spencer Phipps assumed the office, Sep., 1756 Thomas Burnett assumed the office, Aug., 1757 Thomas Hutchinson, acting, June, 1760 Francis Barnard, acting, Aug., 1760 Lieut. Thomas Hutchinson, acting, Aug. 1, 1769 Gen. Thomas Gage proclaimed Military Rule, May 15, 1774 Massachusetts had none, 1776 State. John Hancock elected by the people, Oct. 25, 1780 James Bowden, elected, March, 1785 John Hancock again elected, Oct. 8, 1787 Samuel Adams inaugurated, May, 1794 Increase Sumner, inaugurated, May, 1797 Caleb Strong, inaugurated, May 28, 1800 James Sullivan, inaugurated, May 27, 1807 Christopher Gore, inaugurated, May 31, 1809 Caleb Strong again, inaugurated, May 27, 1812 John Brooks, inaugurated, May 29, 1816 William Eustis, inaugurated, May 23, 1823 Levi Lincoln, inaugurated, May 25, 1825 John Davis, inaugurated, Jan. 1, 1834 Edward Ev