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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gilman, Nicholas 1755-1814 (search)
Gilman, Nicholas 1755-1814 Legislator; born in Exeter, N. H., Aug. 3, 1755; entered the Continental army in 1776; and served during the remainder of the war. He was with Washington at the surrender of Yorktown, where it became his duty to take an account of the prisoners. In September, 1787, he was a delegate to the convention to frame the Constitution of the United States; and in 1805-14 held a seat in the United States Senate. He died in Exeter, N. H., May 2, 1814.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
s his father in the viceroyalty of Mexico in 1785; Don Estevan Miro acts in his place and receives his commission as governor......June 2, 1786 Gen. James Wilkinson reaches New Orleans in June with a small cargo of tobacco and other goods. Perhaps to advance mercantile schemes he has interviews with Governor Miro and professes accord with him in seeking a rupture between the western and eastern United States, and increase of Spanish power in America. He returns to Philadelphia......September, 1787 Settlers from western North Carolina arrive, after failure to erect the State of Frankland......March, 1789 French refugees from Santo Domingo reach New Orleans, and a few of them open the first regular theatre in the city......1791 Don Francois Louis Hector, Baron de Carondelet, succeeds Miro as governor and intendant of Louisiana......January, 1792 Publication of the first newspaper in Louisiana, Le Moniteur de la Louisiane......1794 Genet, the French ambassador to the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
warns all to return to their allegiance to North Carolina......April 14, 1786 State of Frankland continues to exist under difficulties for about two years, courts being held by both governments, military officers appointed, and taxes levied which people pay to neither, until the legislature of Frankland at Greenville authorizes the election of two representatives to the legislature of North Carolina, members of Assembly are elected by the people, and the new State is reabsorbed......September, 1787 William Blount, Richard Dobbs, Spaight, and Hugh Williamson sign the Constitution of the United States as representatives from North Carolina......Sept. 17, 1787 State convention fixes the seat of government at Wake Court-house, now Raleigh......1788 North Carolina ratifies the Constitution of the United States by a vote of 193 to 75......Nov. 21, 1789 Dismal Swamp Canal, uniting the waters of Pasquotank and Elizabeth rivers, incorporated......1790 As authorized by act of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tennessee, (search)
ch chooses John Sevier as governor......Nov. 14, 1785 Capt. James White and James Connor settle on the site of Knoxville......1786 At a conference upon the legality of the State of Frankland it is agreed that the inhabitants are at full liberty and discretion to pay their public taxes to either the State of North Carolina or the State of Frankland ......March 20, 1787 Legislature of Frankland meets for the last time at Greeneville, and government reverts to North Carolina......September, 1787 Deed conveying to the United States territory west of the Alleghany Mountains accepted by act of Congress, approved......April 2, 1790 William Blount appointed governor of the territory southwest of the Ohio River......Aug. 7, 1790 First issue of the Knoxville Gazette published at Rogersville by George Roulstone......Nov. 5, 1791 Knoxville, chosen as the seat of government, is laid out......February, 1792 Attack of 700 Indians on Buchanan's Station, 4 miles south of Nash
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, George (search)
bject while it was pending will indicate the character of that influence and of Washington's sentiments concerning the new national government. The student is referred to vol. XI. of Ford's edition of the writings of Washington for the complete collection of his letters during this period. He will also find in that volume Washington's diary during the constitutional convention, which, although but a skeleton, will give him an insight into Washington's life in Philadelphia from May to September, 1787. In the various Lives of Washington, in the last volume of Bancroft's History of the United States, in Fiske's Critical period of American history, and in other American histories, are good accounts of the disorders following the Revolution, and of the successful measures, so largely directed by Washington, which gradually brought order out of chaos. In the series of Old South leaflets are many which will be of use in this connection. Among these are Washington's circular letter to t