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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison, Benjamin 1740-1791 (search)
ion, or to find inspiration and guidance in the teachings and example of Washington and his great associates, and hope and courage in the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard. The Territory of Dakota has now a population greater than any of the original States (except Virginia), and greater than the aggregate of five of the smaller States in 1790. The centre of population when our national capital was located was east of Baltimore, and it was argued by many well-informed persons that it would move eastward rather than westward; yet in 1880 it was found to be near Cincinnati, and the new census about to be taken will show another stride to the westward. That which was the body has come to be only the rich fringe of the nation's robe. But our growth has not been limited to territory, population, and aggregate wealth, marvellous as it
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart, Albert Bushnell 1854- (search)
own his guldens for a slip of pasteboard upon which are printed the talismanic words New York—St. Louis—Kansas City— Helena. Into a land which a century ago had not 100,000 people has converged a stream of settlers from East, South, and North, heaping up activity and prosperity as the meteors are said to sustain the heat of the sun into which they fall. Mountains have been no barrier, and a civil war could not tear apart the northern and the southern halves of the great valley. When in 1790 Congress was discussing the question of a permanent seat of government, Mr. Vining, of Delaware, favored the lower Potomac: From thence, it appears to me, the rays of government will most naturally diverge to the extremities of the Union. I declare that I look on the Western territory in an awful and striking point of view. To that region the unpolished sons of earth are flowing from all quarters— men to whom the protection of the laws and the controlling force of the government are
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hazard, Samuel 1784-1870 (search)
Hazard, Samuel 1784-1870 Archaeologist; born in Philadelphia, May 26, 1784; son of Ebenezer Hazard. In early life he engaged in commerce, and made several voyages to the East Indies before he began a literary career. He was the author of Register of Pennsylvania (1828-36), in 16 volumes; United States commercial and statistical register (1839-42), in 6 volumes; Annals of Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware in 1609 to the year 1682, in 1 volume; and Pennsylvania archives (1682-1790), in 12 volumes of about 800 pages each. These works are invaluable to historians. He died in Philadelphia, May 22, 1870.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hill, William 1769-1852 (search)
Hill, William 1769-1852 Clergyman; born in Cumberland county, Va., March 3, 1769; graduated at Hampden-Sidney College in 1788; was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1790. He was the author of an oration in memory of General Washington, and began a History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, but only the first part was published. He died in Winchester, Va., Nov. 16, 1852.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holland land Company. (search)
Holland land Company. The tract of land ceded by the State of New York to the State of Massachusetts in 1786 was sold by the latter State to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham for $1,000,000. They soon afterwards extinguished the Indian title to a part of this territory, surveyed it into tracts denominated ranges and townships, and sold large parcels to speculators and actual settlers. In 1790 they sold nearly the whole of the residue of the survey (1,204,000 acres) to Robert Morris, of Philadelphia, for 8d. an acre, who resold it to Sir William Pulteney. Phelps and Gorham, being unable to fulfil their contract in full with Massachusetts, compromised and surrendered that portion of the land to which the Indian title was unextinguished, in consideration of which the State relinquished two-thirds of the contract price. In 1796 Robert Morris purchased from the State this portion also, extinguished the Indian title, sold off several large tracts upon the east side of and along th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hooper, William 1742-1790 (search)
Hooper, William 1742-1790 Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Boston, June 17, 1742; graduated at Harvard in 1760; studied law under James Otis; and went to North Carolina in 1764, settling in Wilmington in 1767. He was a representative in the provincial legislature, and was a delegate to the first Continental Congress in 1774, in which he drew up an address to the inhabitants of Jamaica. Soon after signing the Declaration of Independence he resigned his seat and returned home, where he subsequently took part in local public affairs. He died in Hillsboro, N. C., in October, 1790.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hopkinson, Francis 1737-1791 (search)
Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 21, 1737; graduated at Princeton in 1763, and in 1765 was admitted to the bar. His republican principles caused his removal from a lucrative office in New Jersey. He was a member of Congress in 1776-77, and was distinguished during the Revolution by political and satirical writings. His best known is The battle of the kegs. He was judge of admiralty for ten years —1779-89, and United States district judge from 1790 till his death. He died in Philadelphia May 9, 1791. In January, 1778, while the channel of the Delaware River was nearly free of ice, some Whigs at Bordentown, N. J., sent floating down the stream some torpedoes in the form of kegs filled with gunpowder, and so arranged with machinery that on rubbing against an object they would explode. It was hoped that some of these torpedoes might touch a British war-vessel, explode and sink her. One of them, touching a piece of floating ice in fron
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Humphreys, David 1752-1818 (search)
d himself at Yorktown, he was made the bearer of the captured British standards to Congress, when that body voted him an elegant sword. At the close of the war he accompanied Washington to Mount Vernon, and in July, 1784, went to France as secretary of legation to Jefferson, accompanied by Kosciuszko. In 1787 he was appointed colonel of a regiment for the Western service, but when it was reduced, in 1788, he again went to Mount Vernon, where he remained with Washington until sent as minister to Portugal in 1790. He was master of ceremonies in regulating the etiquette of the republican court of the first President. Appointed minister to Spain in 1797, he continued there until 1802, and concluded treaties with Algiers and Tripoli. He was extensively engaged in agriculture and manufactures after his return to America, and in 1812 he took command of the militia of Connecticut. He was a poet of considerable genius; also a dramatic writer. He died in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 21, 1818.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iredell, James 1750-1799 (search)
Iredell, James 1750-1799 Jurist; born in Lewes, England, Oct. 5, 1750; emigrated to North Carolina in 1767; admitted to the bar in 1775; was elected judge of the Superior Court in 1777; appointed attorney-general in 1779; and judge of the Supreme Court in 1790. He died in Edenton, N. C., Oct. 20, 1799. Lawyer; born in Edenton, N. C., Nov. 2, 1788; son of James Iredell; graduated at Princeton College in 1806; served in the War of 1812; aided in the defence of Craney Island; elected governor of North Carolina in 1827, and served out an unexpired term in the United States Senate in 1828-31. His publications include a Treatise on the law of executors and administrators; and a Digest of all the reported cases in the courts of North Carolina, 1778 to 1845. He died in Edenton, N. C., April 13, 1853.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845 (search)
N. C., March 15, 1767. His parents had emigrated from the North of Ireland, in 1765, and were of the Scotch-Irish. At fourteen years of age, Andrew joined the Revolutionary forces in South Carolina. In that service he had two brothers killed. He was with Sumter in the battle of Hanging Rock (q. v.), and in 1781 was made a prisoner. He was admitted to the practice of the law in western North Carolina in 1786; removed to Nashville in 1788; was United States attorney for that district in 1790; member of the convention that framed the State constitution of Tennessee in 1796; member of the United States Senate in 1797; and judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1798 to 1804. From 1798 until 1814 he was major-general of the Tennessee militia, and conducted the principal campaign against the Creek Indians, which resulted in the complete subjugation of that nation in the spring of 1814. On May 31, 1814, he was appointed a major-general in the regular army and given command of the
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