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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
t; sentence approved by the President, but execution remitted......Jan. 3, 1814 Dartmouth College case, defining the power of States over corporations......1817-18 Arbuthnot and Ambrister, by court-martial, April 26, 1818, for inciting Creek Indians to war against the United States; executed by order of General Jackson......April 30, 1818 Stephen and Jesse Boorn, at Manchester, Vt., Nov. 1819, for the murder of Louis Colvin, who disappeared in 1813; sentenced to be hanged......Jan. 28, 1820 [Six years after Colvin disappeared an uncle of the Boorns dreamed that Colvin came to his bedside, declared the Boorns his murderers, and told where his body was buried. This was April 27, 1819. The Boorns were arrested, confessed the crime circumstantially, were tried and convicted, but not executed, because Colvin was found alive in New Jersey. Wilkie Collins's novel, The dead alive, founded upon this case.] Capt. David Porter, by court-martial at Washington, for exceeding hi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
to the Delaware River, chartered......March 1, 1801 Act for the gradual abolition of slavery, making free all persons born in the State after July 4, 1804, passed......Feb. 15, 1804 Newark bank and insurance company chartered......1804 Act confining suffrage to white male citizens......Nov. 16, 1807 Princeton Theological Seminary established by the Presbyterian Church......1812 Act passed creating a fund for free schools......Feb. 12, 1817 Jersey City incorporated......Jan. 28, 1820 Samuel L. Southard, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy......Sept. 16, 1823 Morris Canal, from Newark to Phillipsburg, on the Delaware, commenced......1825 Camden and Amboy Railroad incorporated......Feb. 4, 1830 Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, purchases an estate of 1,400 acres at Bordentown, immediately after the downfall of his brother at Waterloo, where he resides until......1832 Legislature appropriates $2,000 to extinguish all Indian titles to land in the Sta