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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connecticut, (search)
al Church in Scotland......Nov. 14, 1784 Connecticut frees her slaves......1784 Connecticut makes a qualified cession to the United States of all territory south of lat. 41° N. and west of a line 120 miles west of Pennsylvania......Sept. 14, 1786 [The space left to Connecticut in Ohio is known as the Western Reserve, and is claimed as a compensation for the territory relinquished in Pennsylvania.] Constitution of the United States ratified by Connecticut; vote 128 to 40......Jan. 9, 1788 Wooden clocks first made at Waterbury......1790 Gen. Israel Putnam dies at Brookline, Conn.......May 19, 1790 Connecticut bestows upon citizens, especially those of Danbury, Fairfield, Groton, New London, and Norwalk, who had suffered during the Revolution, half a million acres at the west end of the Western Reserve in Ohio, hence known as Fire lands ......1792 Connecticut sells to the Connecticut Land Company, of 320 citizens, 3,200,000 acres, the remainder of the tract betwe
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
er the State constitution established, known as the Massachusetts bank......1784 Massachusetts mint established......1786 [Discontinued after adoption of federal Constitution.] First symptoms of Shays's rebellion at a convention in the county of Worcester......Aug. 15, 1786 This affair culminates at Springfield, when Shays attempts to capture the arsenal there......Jan. 25, 1787 Massachusetts convention to ratify the Constitution of the United States convenes at Boston......Jan. 9, 1788 [Governor Hancock chosen president of the convention.] Constitution is ratified by a vote of 187 to 168......Feb. 6, 1788 Slave-trade prohibited in Massachusetts......March 26, 1788 John Adams elected Vice-President of the United States......1789 President Washington visits Boston......Oct. 24, 1789 Williams College at Williamstown, Berkshire county, founded......1790 [Incorporated June 22, 1793. Congregational.] John Hancock dies at Quincy, aged fifty-six......