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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Armstrong , John , 1758 -1843 (search)
Armstrong, John, 1758-1843
Military officer; born in Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1758.
While a student at Princeton, in 1775, he became a volunteer in Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, and was soon afterwards made an aide-de-camp to General Mercer.
He was afterwards placed on the staff of General Gates, and remained so from the beginning of that officer's campaign against Burgoyne until the end of the war, having the rank of major.
Holding a facile pen, he was employed to write the famous
John Armstrong. Newburgh addresses.
They were powerfully and eloquently written.
After the war he was successively Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; and in 1784 he conducted operations against the settlers in the Wyoming Valley.
The Continental Congress in 1787 appointed him one of the judges for the Northwestern Territory, but he declined.
Two years later he married a sister of Chancellor Livingston, removed to New York, purchased a farm within the precincts of the old
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federal convention, the. (search)
Lewis, Francis 1713-
Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Llandaff, Wales, in March, 1713; educated at Westminster School, he became a merchant, and emigrated to America in 1734.
He was aide to Colonel Mercer after the capture of Oswego by the French in 1757, and was, with other prisoners, taken to Canada and thence to France.
For his services the British government gave him 5,000 acres of land.
Patriotic and active, he was a member of the Stamp Act Congress in 1765.
He was a delegate from New York in the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1779.
Settled on Long Island, which abounded with Tories, he suffered much from the destruction of his property by this class of citizens.
They caused the death of his wife by brutally confining her in a prison for several months.
To his patriotism he sacrificed most of his property, and died poor, in New York City, Dec. 30, 1802.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hon. James Mercer Garnett . (search)