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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
neral assembly......1836 Case of slave schooner Amistad......1839-40 Alexander McLeod, a Canadian, charged as an accomplice in burning the steamer Caroline in the Niagara River, and in the murder of Amos Durfee, is taken from Lockport to New York on habeas corpus, May, 1841. Great Britain asks his release in extra session of Congress; Mr. Webster advocates his discharge. A special session of the circuit court, ordered by the legislature of New York at Utica, tries and acquits him......Oct. 4-12, 1841 A. W. Holmes, of the crew of the William Brown for murder on the high seas (forty-four of the passengers and crew escaping in the long-boat, the sailors threw some passengers overboard to lighten the boat, April 19, 1841), convicted, but recommended to mercy......May, 1842 Thomas W. Dorr, Rhode Island; treason......1842 Alexander S. Mackenzie (Somers's mutiny)......1842 Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk, of New York, for immoral conduct; by ecclesiastical court, suspended....
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
en sailors and negroes, military aid is called in and the riot act read......Sept. 21-24, 1831 City of Providence incorporated......Nov. 22, 1832 Company incorporated to construct a railroad from Providence to Stonington in 1832, and railroad building commenced......1835 Fort Adams in Newport Harbor, begun in 1824, is completed......1839 Convention of delegates elected by friends of extension of suffrage, without regard to the law regulating the right of voting, at Providence, Oct. 4, 1841, forms a people's constitution, and declares it adopted by a vote of the people......Dec. 27-29, 1841 Thomas W. Dorr elected governor under the people's constitution......April 18, 1842 Dorr government attempts to organize, May 3, 1842, but is resisted by legal State government......May 3, 1842 Constitution to supersede the charter of 1663 is framed by a convention which meets at Newport, Sept. 12, 1842, adjourns to East Greenwich, and completes its labors Nov. 5; constitution r