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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Caswell , Richard 1729 -1789 (search)
Caswell, Richard 1729-1789
Military officer; born in Maryland, Aug. 3, 1729: went to North Carolina in 1746, and practised law there, serving in the Assembly from 1754 to 1771, and being speaker in 1770.
In the battle of the Allamance he commanded Tryon's right wing, but soon afterwards identified himself with the cause of the patriots, and was a member of the Continental Congress (1774-75). For three years he was president of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, and was governor of the State from 1777 to 1779.
In February, 1776, he was in command of the patriot troops in the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, and received the thanks of Congress and the commission of majorgeneral for the victory there achieved.
He led the State troops in the battle near Camden (August, 1780); and was controller-general in 1782.
He was again governor in 1784-86; and a member of the convention that framed the national Constitution.
While presiding as speaker in the North Carolina Assembly he
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Champlin , Stephen 1789 - (search)
Champlin, Stephen 1789-
Naval officer; born in South Kingston, R. I., Nov. 17, 1789; went to sea when sixteen years old, and commanded a ship at twenty-two.
In May, 1812, he was appointed sailing-master in the navy, and was first in command of a gunboat under Perry, at Newport, R. I., and was in service on Lake Ontario in the attacks on Little York (Toronto) and Fort George, in 1813.
He joined Perry on Lake Erie, and commanded the sloop-of-war Scorpion in the battle on Sept. 10, 1813, firing the first and last gun in that action.
He was the last surviving officer of that engagement.
In the following spring, while blockading Mackinaw with the Tigress, he was attacked in the night by an overwhelming force, severely wounded, and made prisoner.
His wound troubled him until his death, and he was disabled for any active service forever afterwards.
He died in Buffalo, N. Y., Feb.
Collins, John -1795
Governor; born June 8, 1717; was an active patriot during the Revolutionary War; in 1776 was made a commissioner to arrange the accounts of Rhode Island with Congress; in 1778-83 was a member of the old Congress.
and in 1786-89 governor of Rhode Island.
He was then elected to the first Congress under the national Constitution, but did not take his seat.
He died in Newport, R. I., March 8, 1795.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Constitution of the United States (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cooper , James Fenimore 1789 -1851 (search)
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851
Author; born in Burlington.
N. J., Sept. 15, 1789:
James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate.
He was six years in the naval service.
Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales.
He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy.
He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
Cranch, William 1769-
Jurist; born in Weymouth, Mass., July 17, 1769; graduated at Harvard in 1789; admitted to the bar in 1790; appointed judge of the circuit court of the District of Columbia in 1801; chiefjustice of the same court in 1805, which office he held until his death, Sept. 1, 1855.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Curtis , George William 1824 - (search)