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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kidder, Frederick 1804-1885 (search)
Kidder, Frederick 1804-1885 Author; born in New Ipswich, N. H., April 16, 1804; engaged in business at different times in Boston, New York, and the South; and became widely known as an antiquarian authority. His publications include The history of New Ipswich, N. H., from its first Grant in 1736 to 1852 (with Augustus A. Gould); The expeditions of Capt. John Lovewell; Military operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the Revolution; History of the first New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution; and History of the Boston massacre, March 5, 1770. He died in Melrose, Mass., Dec. 19, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
etown......June 13, 1716 Name of Saco changed to Biddeford......Nov. 18, 1718 First violence of the Three years or Lovewell's War, the fourth Indian war, was the taking of nine families on Merrymeeting Bay by sixty Indians in canoes, June 13; t Harmon, with 100 men each, succeed in putting him and about thirty Indian converts to death......Aug. 12, 1724 Capt. John Lovewell with thirty-three men is surprised by Indians at Pegwacket; a desperate battle ensues; the Indians are repulsed, but with a loss to the English of ten killed, including Captain Lovewell, fourteen wounded, and one missing......May 8, 1725 Treaty known as Drummer's treaty, signed by four Indian delegates at Boston......Dec. 15, 1725 David Dunbar, an Irishmanburns......Oct. 18, 1775 Warren incorporated; first town on St. George River......Nov. 7, 1776 Fryeburg, scene of Lovewell's fight in 1725, incorporated......Jan. 11, 1777 Counties of York, Cumberland, and Lincoln, by vote of Congress, erec
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Hampshire, (search)
the arrival of news of the treaty of Utrecht, and a treaty ratified with them......July 11, 1713 George Vaughan made lieutenant-governor and Samuel Shute commander-in chief of the province......Oct. 13, 1716 Vaughan superseded by John Wentworth, by commission signed by Joseph Addison, English Secretary of State......Dec. 7, 1717 Sixteen Scottish families settle at Londonderry, and the first Presbyterian church in New England is organized by Rev. James McGregorie......1719 Capt. John Lovewell makes his first excursion against the Indians in New Hampshire......December, 1724 A grant of land made by New Hampshire to the survivors of the Lovewell defeat at Fryeburg, Me., overlaps a similar grant by Massachusetts in Bow county, which leads to a boundary litigation between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, which lasts forty years. Grants made......May 18-20, 1727 Duration of Assembly limited to three years unless sooner dissolved by the governor......Nov. 21, 1727 Dav