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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schuyler, George Lee 1811- (search)
Schuyler, George Lee 1811- Sportsman; born in Rhinebeck, N. Y., June 9, 1811; became deeply interested in yachting. In 1882 the New York Yacht Club returned the America's cup to him, as its only survivingdonor; but he immediately donated it anew to the club as a challenge-cup. In 1887 he was referee in the race between the Volunteer and Thistle. He published Correspondence and remarks upon Bancroft's history of the Northern campaign in 1777; and The character of Major-General Philip Schuyler. He died on the yacht Electra off New London, Conn., July 31, 1890.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, Buckingham -1871 (search)
Smith, Buckingham -1871 Historian; born on Cumberland Island, Ga., Oct. 31, 1810; graduated at Cambridge Law School in 1836; elected to the Florida legislature; was secretary of the United States legation at Mexico in 1850-52, and at Madrid in 1855-58; and later settled in Florida, where he became a judge and a member of the State Senate. He made many important researches in Indian philology, Mexican history and antiquities, and early Spanish expeditions in North America. He aided Bancroft, Parkman, and Sparks in their researches, and published An inquiry into the authenticity of documents concerning a discovery of North America claimed to have been made by Verrazano. He died in New York City, Jan. 5, 1871.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ille, Tenn., aged seventy-eight......June 8, 1845 By an act of amnesty the Rhode Island legislature releases Thomas W. Dorr, who was under a life sentence for treason......June 27, 1845 Naval school established at Annapolis, Md., while George Bancroft is Secretary of Navy......1845 Annexation ratified by Texas in convention......July 4, 1845 Texas in convention adopts a constitution......Aug. 27, 1845 Gov. Silas Wright, of New York, proclaims Delaware county in a state of insurretered on behalf of the attorney-general of Canada......Jan. 12, 1891 Senate passes a free-coinage bill adopted June 17, 1890, as a substitute for the financial bill, and takes up the federal election bill by 34 to 33......Jan. 14, 1891 George Bancroft, historian, born 1800, dies at Washington, D. C.......Jan. 17, 1891 Indian chiefs at Pine Ridge agency, Jan. 14, agree to surrender to General Miles, who declares the Indian outbreak ended......Jan. 19, 1891 Discussion of the federal e
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colorado, (search)
enty-three soldiers, explores it and discovers Pike's Peak......Nov. 15, 1806 He was born in New Jersey, Jan. 5, 1779; killed at the taking of York, now Toronto, Canada......1812 Maj. Stephen H. Long visits this region, and he reports to Congress that all the country drained by the Missouri, Arkansas, and Platte rivers is unsuitable for cultivation and uninhabitable......1819 [This impression aided to delay settlement of Colorado until Oregon and California had both been settled. Bancroft's Colorado, p. 349.] Bent brothers erect a stockade called Fort William on the north branch of the Arkansas River......1832 John C. Fremont's expedition touches Colorado......1842-44 Fort Massachusetts erected on Ute Creek......1850 Discovery of gold in what is now Colorado, reported......1852-57 W. Green Russell, a miner of Dahlomega, Ga., organizes an expedition to search for gold in Colorado......1858 Denver founded......1858 [Named after the governor of Kansas.]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
isits New Jersey, New York, and Long Island, and returns to Chester......Dec. 4, 1682 [Penn's famous treaty with the Indians under the elms at Shackamaxon, at the northern limits of Philadelphia, occurs about this time, according to Hildreth, Bancroft, and Lossing; the Narrative and critical history of America gives the date, June 23, 1683. It is the subject of a picture by Benjamin West. The whole story of this treaty has been doubted. Hildreth calls it the famous traditionary treaty. BaBancroft says: It is to be regretted that no original record of the meeting has been preserved. ] First Assembly of the province meets at Chester in three days session......Dec. 4, 1682 [This meeting made changes in the frame of government, tending to strengthen the power of the proprietary. The territories (Delaware) were enfranchised by a joint act, and united with Pennsylvania on the basis of equal rights, and a code called the great law was enacted.] Counties of Bucks, Chester, and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Verrazzano, Giovanni da 1508- (search)
was not contained in the copy printed by Ramusio. Verrazzano's voyage and letter have been the occasion of much controversy. There are those who believe that he never came to America at all, but that the letter was ingeniously prepared in France, with the connivance of the King, as the basis of a claim to American territory. Mr. Henry C. Murphy has been the ablest objector to the genuineness of Verrazzano's letter and voyage. See his book on The voyage of Verrazzano, which affected Mr. Bancroft so deeply that he has left out all mention of Verrazzano in the revised edition of his History of the United States. The entire controversy is reviewed most ably by Justin Winsor, in the fourth volume of the new Narrative and critical history of America, and he shows the utter insufficiency of Murphy's objections. This review should be carefully read by the student. See also De Costa's Verrazzano the explorer, containing an exhaustive bibliography of the subject, Prof. Geo. W. Greene's
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, Henderson 1660- (search)
Walker, Henderson 1660- Colonial governor; born in North Carolina in 1660; became a judge of the Supreme Court and president of the council; was governor of North Carolina in 1699-1704. Referring to his administration George Bancroft writes: While England was engaged in worldwide wars, here the inhabitants multiplied and spread in the enjoyment of peace and liberty. He died near Edenton, N. C., April 14, 1704. His tombstone is marked with the epitaph North Carolina, during his administration, enjoyed tranquillity.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, George (search)
and of Washington's sentiments concerning the new national government. The student is referred to vol. XI. of Ford's edition of the writings of Washington for the complete collection of his letters during this period. He will also find in that volume Washington's diary during the constitutional convention, which, although but a skeleton, will give him an insight into Washington's life in Philadelphia from May to September, 1787. In the various Lives of Washington, in the last volume of Bancroft's History of the United States, in Fiske's Critical period of American history, and in other American histories, are good accounts of the disorders following the Revolution, and of the successful measures, so largely directed by Washington, which gradually brought order out of chaos. In the series of Old South leaflets are many which will be of use in this connection. Among these are Washington's circular letter to the governors of the States in 1783 (No. 15), Washington's letter to Benja
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), William and Mary, Fort (search)
, and six months before Bunker Hill. It was unquestionably the first act of overt treason. Singularly enough, however, Bancroft makes but a casual reference to it, and in none of the histories is it given more than a paragraph. Yet its immediate ct any act of treasonable hostility preceded it. Sparks, in his Life of Sullivan, gives practically the same details, and Bancroft, Botta, and Bryant make only an allusion to the event. In the course of several papers read before the Massachusetts HiBunker Hill. In the Continental army gathered about Boston there was a terrible lack of ammunition. It is a fact, says Bancroft, referring to the day before Prescott occupied Breed's Hill, that the Americans, after collecting all the ammunition nore King, which was practically a declaration of war, and which was presented on Feb. 9, 1775. The King in his reply, says Bancroft, pledged himself speedily and effectually to enforce obedience to the laws and the authority of the supreme legislature.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 77 (search)
favor, to Thy providence, to Thy protection. Smile upon them and upon us, through Christ our Redeemer. Amen. (Responses of Amen. ) These preliminaries having been arranged, the meeting was formally organized as follows:-- Mr. McCurdy put in nomination for President Mr. John A. Dix. The following list of officers was then put in nomination, and acceded to:-- Vice-Presidents. W. B. Astor, Greene C. Bronson, Peter Cooper, W. M. Evarts, W. C. Bryant, Pelatiah Perit, Geo. Bancroft, John A. King, Moses Taylor, James Boorman, Stewart Brown, John J. Phelps, R. B. Minturn, Henry Grinnell, O. D. F. Grant, W. E. Dodge, Watts Sherman, Edwin Crosswell, L. G. B. Cannon, John D. Wolfe, Seth B. Hunt, Edwin Dobbs, Joseph Stuart, R. H. McCurdy, Joseph W. Alsop, E. E. Morgan, Willis Blackstone, Nath. Hayden, John Lloyd, Chas. H. Russell, Robt. Ray, Benj. L. Swan, John Q. Jones, David Hoadley, Robt. J. Taylor, Jas. N. Phelps, J
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