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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Strong, John 1738-1816 (search)
Strong, John 1738-1816 Pioneer; born in Coventry, Conn., Aug. 16, 1738; built the first house owned by an English settler north of Massachusetts, on the east side of Lake Champlain. He was driven from his home by the invasion of Burgoyne in 1777; lived in Dorset, Vt., in 1777-83; represented that town in the legislature in 1779-82; returned to his old home in Addison, Vt., in 1783; was judge of the county court in 1785-1801; and member of the convention that ratified the national Constitution in 1791. He died in Addison, Vt., June 16, 1816.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
as much, I suppose, as my health will bear. My chief objects are still Greek and German, my subsidiary objects Italian and French, my amusement literary history, chiefly ancient, and books that will fit me for my future travels. . . . . Add to all this that I am perfectly well, and just contented enough to keep me always industrious, that I may not fall into the horrors of homesickness, and I do not think you will be dissatisfied with my situation. To Edward T. Channing. Gottingen, June 16, 1816. . . . . In one of your last letters, dear Edward, you told me that your brother William The Rev. William Ellery Channing. would like to hear something about the kind of metaphysics taught in the schools here. I forgot at the moment to answer this inquiry, and should perhaps have forgotten it still longer, if I had not last week read his third pamphlet in the controversy with Worcester; and the natural desire which this excited, of recalling myself to the memory of one who had jus
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
tone in Copp's Hill Bur. G. 13. William, S. of William (4), m. Anna Cutter, both of Chas., 2 Feb. 1796.—Cutter (par. 13). He o. c. Pct. ch. 24 Nov. 1799. Had Anna, bap. 24 Nov. 1799, m. (she of Chas.) Samuel Adams, of W. Camb., 26 May, 1822; Eleanor, bap. 5 July, 1801, d. 5 Oct. 1805, a. 4; William Augustus, bap. 24 Mar. 1805; Susan Francis, bap. 17 May, 1807, m. Pascal Sprague; Eleanor Sophia, bap. 25 Feb. 1810, m. John P. Daniels; George Washington, bap. 4 Oct. 1812; Thomas, bap. 16 June, 1816. See Wyman's Chas., 1028; Cutter Book, 164, 390, 391, and Dunster Descendants, 45-49. 14. Samuel, s. of Samuel (5), m. Lydia Perry, 22 May, 1796. He o. c. Pct. ch. 21 Jan. 1798. Had Samuel, bap. 21 Jan. 1798; John, bap. 6 Apr. 1800; a child, d. 20 July, 1800, a. 5 weeks; an infant, d. 29 Mar. 1801, a. 1 day; Lydia, bap. 17 May, 1802, m. Mason Phillips, 29 Jan. 1826; Maria, bap. 30 Sept. 1804; Aaron, bap. 12 Apr. 1807. Samuel the father d. 8 Oct. 1808, a 34. Mrs. Lydia, prob. hi