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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gardner, Thomas 1724- (search)
Gardner, Thomas 1724- Military officer; born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1724; was a member of the committee of safety in 1775, and in the same year raised a regiment in accordance with instructions from the Provincial Congress. At the battle of Bunker Hill he was severely wounded, and died the next day. Garfield, James Abram
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sufferers' lands. (search)
Sufferers' lands. In the history of Connecticut, the designation of a tract of 500,000 acres of land at the western extremity of the Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio, given by the General Assembly of Connecticut to the inhabitants of the towns in that State who had lost property in British incursions during the Revolutionary War, and to the heirs or assigns of those who had died. The total number of sufferers was reported at 1,870, and the aggregate losses about £161,500. The grant by the Assembly was made on May 11, 1792. In 1796 the sufferers were incorporated in Connecticut, and in 1803 in Ohio. The State of Connecticut subsequently sold the whole tract for $1,200.000. See Cleaveland, Moses; Garfield, James Abram