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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ledyard, John 1751- (search)
, he shipped at New London as a common sailor, and from England accompanied Captain Cook in his last voyage around the world as corporal of marines. He vainly tried to set on foot a trading expedition to the northwest coast of North America, and went to Europe in 1784. He started on a journey through the northern part of Europe and Asia and across Bering Strait to America in 1786-87. He walked around the whole coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, reaching St. Petersburg in the latter part of March, 1787, without money, shoes, or stockings. He had journeyed 1,400 miles on foot in less than seven weeks. Thence he went to Siberia, but was arrested at Irkutsk in February, 1788, conducted to the frontiers of Poland, and there dismissed with an intimation that if he returned into Russia he would be hanged. The cause of his arrest was the jealousy of the Russian-American Trading Company. Going back to London, Ledyard accepted an offer to engage in the exploration of the interior of Africa.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State sovereignty. (search)
tified by the people assembled in representative conventions, and not by the State legislatures, and so disowned all independent State sovereignty, which the opponents of the doctrine declare never existed either as colonies or States. James Madison, in a letter to Edmund Randolph, in April, 1787, wrote: I hold it for a fundamental point that an individual independence of the States is utterly irreconcilable with the idea of aggregate sovereignty. Washington, in a letter to John Jay, in March, 1787, on the subject of a national Constitution, said: A thirst for power, and the bantling—I had liked to have said the monster—sovereignty, which has taken such fast hold of the States individually, will, when joined by the many whose personal consequence in the line of State politics will, in a manner, be annihilated, form a strong phalanx against it. The doctrine of State rights. This question is ably discussed in a paper of great historical interest by Jefferson Davis, which was wri
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
They are defeated by the Indians near upper Sandusky......June 5-6, 1782 Colonel Crawford, being captured by the Indians, is put to death with barbarity......June 11, 1782 Virginia legislature authorizes her delegates to convey the Northwest Territory to the United States......Dec. 20, 1783 Virginia deed of cession dated......March 1, 1784 New Ohio Company formed in Boston......1786 Rufus Putnam, Samuel Parsons, and Manasseh Cutler made directors of the Ohio Company......March, 1787 Northwest territorial government established......July 13, 1787 Gen. Samuel H. Parsons appointed judge in and over the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River......1787 Mayflower leaves Sumrill's Ferry on the Youghiogheny with pioneers from Danvers, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., to form a permanent settlement in Ohio......April 2, 1788 They land at Marietta......April 7, 1788 First meeting of the agents and directors of the Ohio Company west of the Alleghan
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
re establishes post-offices and a postmaster-general; the rates of postage to be the same as in the United States ......1784 Grant to Reuben Harmon, Jr., of Rupert, of the exclusive privilege of coining copper for a limited period......1785 As provided by State constitution, the first council of censors meets and suggests changes in the constitution, and calls a convention......1785 Constitution framed by a convention, July 4, 1786, is adopted by the legislature and declared......March, 1787 Ethan Allen, born at Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 1737, dies at Burlington......Feb. 12, 1789 New York consents to the admission of Vermont into the Union, renouncing her claims for $30,000, and the legislature of Vermont ratifies the agreement......Oct. 28, 1790 Vermont adopts the Constitution of the United States without amendments......Jan. 10, 1791 Vermont admitted by act of Congress of Feb. 18, to take effect......March 4, 1791 Constitutional convention meets at Windsor