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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, corner Pearl and Broad streets, New York City......Dec. 4, 1783 Washington resigns his commission as commander-in-chief at the State-house, Annapolis, Md., and retires to Mount Vernon......Dec. 23, 1783 Congress ratifies the definitive treaty of peace......Jan. 14, 1784 Congress accepts cession of Northwest Territory by Virginia; deeds signed by Virginia delegates......March 1, 1784 American daily Advertiser, first daily newspaper in America, issued at Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin Bache......1784 Fiscal affairs of the United States placed in the hands of three commissioners appointed to succeed Robert Morris......1784 John Jay appointed secretary of foreign affairs in place of Livingston, resigned......March, 1784 Ninth Continental Congress adjourns; 189 days session......June 3, 1784 General Assembly of North Carolina cedes her western lands to the United States on condition of acceptance within two years, April, 1784, but repeals the act......Oct. 22,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
the head of the Penn family.] Act for the gradual emancipation of slaves passed......March 1, 1780 Bank of North America established at Philadelphia; capital, $400,000......Dec. 31, 1781 First manufacture of fustians and jeans in the United States begins at Philadelphia......1782 Dickinson College at Carlisle incorporated......1783 American daily Advertiser, afterwards the Aurora, the first daily newspaper in America, issued in Philadelphia......1784 [Published by Benjamin Franklin Bache.] First city directory of Philadelphia, and first in the United States, published......1785 General convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the first in America, meets at Philadelphia......Sept. 27, 1785 Pittsburg Gazette, first paper published west of the Alleghanies, issued......July 29, 1786 Boundary-line between Pennsylvania and Virginia, continuation of Mason and Dixon's line, extended to a point five degrees west from the Delaware......1786 Convention of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washingtoniana. -1857 (search)
the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the everfavorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. The leaders of the Anti-Federal or Republican party became more and more violent in their censure of their opponents, and finally they indulged in personal abuse of Washington, charging him with venality and even with immorality. The chief vehicle of this abuse was a newspaper called the Aurora, published by Benjamin Franklin Bache, a grandson of Dr. Franklin. When Washington was about to retire from the Presidency in 1797 a writer in that journal said: If ever a nation has been debauched by a man, the American nation has been debauched by Washington. If ever a nation has been deceived by a man, the American nation has been deceived by Washington. Let his conduct, then, be an example to future ages. Let it serve to be a warning that no man may be an idol. Let the history of the federal government instru