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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield, James Abram 1831-1881 (search)
as claimed by the Indians as their own. The claims of New York, Massachusetts, and part of the claim of Pennsylvania had been settled before the war by royal commissioners; the others were still unadjusted. It became evident that no satisfactory settlement could be made except by Congress. That body urged the several States to make a cession of the lands they claimed, and thus enable the general government to open the Northwest for settlement. On March 1, 1784, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee, and James Monroe, delegates in Congress, executed a deed of cession in the name of Virginia, by which they transferred to the United States the title of Virginia to the Northwest Territory, but reserving to that State 150,000 acres of land which Virginia had promised to George Rogers Clark, and to the officers and soldiers who with him captured the British posts in the West. Also, another tract of land between the Scioto and Little Miami, to enable Virginia to pay her promis
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hayne, Robert young -1839 (search)
d. Sir, nothing has been further from my thoughts than to impeach the character or conduct of the people of New England. For their steady habits and hardy virtues I trust I entertain a becoming respect. I fully subscribe to the truth of the description given before the Revolution, by one whose praise is the highest eulogy, that the perseverance of Holland, the activity of France, and the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise have been more than equalled by this recent people. Hardy, enterprising, sagacious, industrious, and moral, the people of New England of the present day are worthy of their ancestors. Still less, Mr. President, has it been my intention to say anything that could be construed into a want of respect for that party who, trampling on all narrow, sectional feeling, have been true to their principles in the worst of times; I mean the Democracy of New England. Sir, I will declare that, highly as I appreciate the Democracy of the South, I consider ev
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
e resided for short periods at Boston, Ipswich, and Salisbury; was Representative 1641, 1644; and settled in the ministry at Exeter, N. H., 1650, where he d. 1683, a. 77. His children, according to Farmer, were Thomas, bap. 9 Mar. 1634, grad. H. C. 1657, d. 7 Nov. 1655; John, bap. 28 June 1635; Margaret; Samuel, bap. 2 Aug. 1639, d. 17 Ap. 1643; Anne, b. 16 Oct. 1657, m. Edward Hilton of Exeter; Theophilus, b. 4 Oct. 1644; Mary, b. and d. 1646; Biley, b. 27 Sept. 1647; Mary, b. 1649, m. Samuel Hardy, a schoolmaster, of Beverly, 24 Jan. 1676; Thomas; Stephen; James; Timothy; Abigail; Dorothy: Rebecca: Elizabeth, who m. Kinsley Hall; Samuel. His descendants are very numerous, particularly in New Hampshire. See Dudley Genealogies, by Dean Dudley, pp. 19, 20. Dunklin. Nathaniel (otherwise written Duntlin), owned land at Cambridge Farms, in 1699. Nathaniel, probably the same, by w. Mary, had Robert, b. 13 Mar. 1709-10. Dunster, Henry, President of Harvard College from 27 Aug. 1640
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, D. (search)
e resided for short periods at Boston, Ipswich, and Salisbury; was Representative 1641, 1644; and settled in the ministry at Exeter, N. H., 1650, where he d. 1683, a. 77. His children, according to Farmer, were Thomas, bap. 9 Mar. 1634, grad. H. C. 1657, d. 7 Nov. 1655; John, bap. 28 June 1635; Margaret; Samuel, bap. 2 Aug. 1639, d. 17 Ap. 1643; Anne, b. 16 Oct. 1657, m. Edward Hilton of Exeter; Theophilus, b. 4 Oct. 1644; Mary, b. and d. 1646; Biley, b. 27 Sept. 1647; Mary, b. 1649, m. Samuel Hardy, a schoolmaster, of Beverly, 24 Jan. 1676; Thomas; Stephen; James; Timothy; Abigail; Dorothy: Rebecca: Elizabeth, who m. Kinsley Hall; Samuel. His descendants are very numerous, particularly in New Hampshire. See Dudley Genealogies, by Dean Dudley, pp. 19, 20. Dunklin. Nathaniel (otherwise written Duntlin), owned land at Cambridge Farms, in 1699. Nathaniel, probably the same, by w. Mary, had Robert, b. 13 Mar. 1709-10. Dunster, Henry, President of Harvard College from 27 Aug. 1640