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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
r Providence......July 13, 1785 First spinning-jenny in the United States made and put in operation by Daniel Jackson, of Providence......1786 Act passed for emitting £ 100,000 in bills of credit, and making the same a legal tender at par......1786 Newport, incorporated as a city, June 1, 1784, resumes its old form of town government......March 27, 1787 African slave-trade forbidden, with penalties of £ 100 for each person imported from Africa, and £ 1,000 for the vessel......Oct. 29, 1787 Motion made in the General Assembly for the appointment of delegates to the general convention of the colonies at Philadelphia is lost by a majority of twenty-three votes......1787 Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers incorporated......March, 1789 Congress subjects to duty all goods from Rhode Island not of her own production......May, 1789 Assembly addresses the President and Congress of the eleven States, assigning reasons for opposing the Constitution, set