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Almanacs, American.
No copy is known to exist of the almanac of 1639.
the first published in America.
calculated for New England by William Pierce, mariner; another, the Boston almanac, by John Foster, 1676.
William Bradford at Philadelphia published an almanac of twenty pages, 1685.
commonly received as the first almanac published in the colonies; a copy from the Brinley library sold in New York, March, 1882, for $555.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bradford , William 1588 -1657 (search)
Bradford, William, 1588-1657
Colonial governor; born in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, in March, 1588; was a passenger in the Mayflower.
At the early age of seventeen years he made an attempt to leave England with dissenters, for Holland, and suffered imprisonment.
He finally joined his dissenting brethren at Amsterdam, learned the art of silk-dyeing, and, coming into the possession of a considerable estate at the age of twenty-one years, he engaged successfully in commerce.
One of Mr. Robinson's congregation at Leyden, he accompanied the Pilgrims to America, and was one of the foremost in selecting a site for the colony.
Before the Pilgrims landed, his wife fell into the sea from the Mayflower, and was drowned.
He succeeded John Carver (April 5, 1621) as governor of Plymouth colony.
He cultivated friendly relations with the Indians; and he was annually rechosen governor as long as he lived, excepting in five years. He wrote a history of Plymouth colony from 1620 to 16
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brewster , William 1560 -1644 (search)
Canonicus
Indian chief; king of the Narragansets; born about 1565.
He was at first unwilling to be friendly with the Pilgrims at New Plymouth.
To show his contempt and defiance of the English, he sent a message to Governor Bradford with a bundle of arrows in a rattlesnake's skin.
That was at the dead of winter, 1622.
It was a challenge to engage in war in the spring.
Like the venomous serpent that wore the skin, the symbol of hostility gave warning before the blow should be struck—a virtue seldom exercised by the Indians.
Bradford acted wisely.
He accepted the challenge by sending the significant quiver back filled with gunpowder and shot.
What can these things be?
inquired the ignorant and curious savage mind, as the ammunition was carried from village to village, in superstitious awe, as objects of evil omen.
They had heard of the great guns at the sea-side, and they dared not keep the mysterious symbols of the governor's anger, but sent them back to Plymouth as toke
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deane , Charles ,1813 -1889 (search)
Deane, Charles, 1813-1889
Historian; born in Biddeford, Me., Nov. 10, 1813; became a member of the chief historical societies of the country; author of Some notices of Samuel Gorton; First Plymouth patent; Bibliography of Governor Hutchinson's publications; Wingfield's discourse of Virginia; Smith's true relation; and editor of Bradford's history of Plymouth plantation, etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 13, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Drama, early American. (search)
Drama, early American.
As early as 1733, there appears to have been a sort of theatrical performance in the city of New York.
In October of that year, George Talbot, a merchant, published a notice in Bradford's Gazette, directing inquiries to be made at his store next door to the Play-house.
In 1750 some young Englishmen and Americans got up a coffee-house representation of Otway's Orphans in Boston.
The pressure for entrance to the novelty was so great that a disturbance arose, which gave the authorities reason for taking measures for the suppression of such performances.
At the next session of the legislature a law was made prohibiting theatrical entertainments, because, as it was expressed in the preamble, they tended not only to discourage industry and frugality, but likewise greatly to increase immorality, impiety, and a contempt for religion.
Regular theatrical performances were introduced into America soon afterwards, when, in 1752, a company of actors from London, le