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Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for 1788 AD or search for 1788 AD in all documents.
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Wells, John 1770-1823
Jurist; born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., in 1770; graduated at Princeton College in 1788; admitted to the bar in 1791; made a justice of the peace in 1797; and won popularity by his skill in replying through the Evening post to an attack upon the Federalists by James Cheetham in an article which appeared in The American citizen.
Later he conducted the papers entitled The Federalist, though they received a final revision by Alexander Hamilton.
He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1823.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williamson , Hugh 1735 -1819 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wisner , Henry 1725 -1790 (search)
Wisner, Henry 1725-1790
Patriot; born in Goshen, N. Y., about 1725; was an assistant justice of the court of common pleas in 1768; representative from Orange county in the New York General Assembly in 1759-69; member of the Continental Congress in 1774, and of the Congress which adopted the Declaration of Independence.
He studied powder-making and erected three powder-mills in Orange county, from which a great part of the powder used in the Revolutionary War was supplied.
He also aided the patriot cause at the time of the war by having spears and gun-flints made, by repairing the roads in Orange county; and by erecting works and mounting cannon on the Hudson River.
He was one of the committee that framed the first constitution of New York in 1777; was State Senator in 1777-82; and a member of the State convention of 1788, which ratified the national Constitution.
He died in Goshen, N. Y., in 1790.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wolcott , Oliver 1747 -1797 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyoming Valley , Civil War in the (search)
Yonkers,
A city in Westchester county, N. Y.; on the Hudson and Bronx rivers; adjoining the northern part of New York City.
It is a charming residential place and has important manufactures.
The place received its name in 1788; was incorporated as a village in 1855 and as a city in 1872; and is the seat of the
The Falls of the Yellowstone. Philipse Manor, erected in 1752, and now the city hall; Greystone, the suburban residence of Samuel J. Tilden; the Hebrew home for the aged and infirm; and the Leake and Watts orphan home.
Population in 1900, 47,931.