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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
ish colonial. From 1664 up to 1682, under the government of New York; and from 1683 up to 1773, under the proprietary government of Pennsylvania. State. Name.Date. John McKinley1776 to 1777 Caesar Rodney1778 to 1781 John Dickinson1782to 1783 John Cook1783 Nicholas Van Dyke1784 to 1786 Thomas Collins1786 to 1789 Joshua Clayton1789 to 1796 Gunning Bedford1796 to 1797 Daniel Rodgers1797 to 1798 Richard Bassett1798 to 1801 James Sykes1801 to 1802 David Hall1802 to 1805 Nathaniel Mitchell1805 to 1808 George Truitt1808 to 1811 Joseph Hazlett1811 to 1814 Daniel Rodney1814 to 1817 John Clark1817 to 1820 Jacob Stout1820 to 1821 John Collins1821 to 1822 Caleb Rodney1822 to 1823 Joseph Hazlett1823 to 1824 Samuel Paynter1824 to 1827 Charles Polk1827 to 1830 David Hazzard1830 to 1833 Caleb P. Bennett1833 to 1836 Charles Polk1836 to 1837 Cornelius P. Comegys.1837 to 1840 William B. Cooper.1840 to 1844 Thomas Stockton.1844 to 1846 Joseph Maul.1846 William Temple
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
as feared the British might help the Spaniards in recovering what they had lost in the territory. The United States government would not countenance this kind of filibustering, and Mathews was superseded as commissioner, April 10, 1812, by Governor Mitchell, of Georgia. Mitchell, professing to believe Congress would sanction Mathews's proceedings, made no change in policy. The House of Representatives did actually pass a bill, in secret session, June 21, authorizing the President to take pMitchell, professing to believe Congress would sanction Mathews's proceedings, made no change in policy. The House of Representatives did actually pass a bill, in secret session, June 21, authorizing the President to take possession of east Florida. The Senate rejected it, for it would have been unwise to quarrel with Spain at the moment when war was about to be declared against Great Britain. Jackson's invasion of Florida and his capture of Pensacola caused much political debate in and out of Congress. By some he was much censured, by others praised. The United States government In a Florida Swamp. upheld him, and the Secretary of State, John Q. Adams, made an able plea of justification, on the ground of
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, chapter 5 (search)
yance to the city, but a stage ran from Charlestown to Medford, sometimes on Medford Turnpike, and sometimes on Main street (Broadway), which would occasionally pick up a passenger on the highway. The next house was on the lower corner of Main and School streets, owned and occupied by Asa Tufts, a farmer, whose family consisted of a wife and four children. Later Mr. Ring built a house below this of Mr. Tufts, and there was also a double house, occupied by the families of Luther and Nathaniel Mitchell, brickmakers. At this time there were brickyards on Main street, and the dangerous clay-pits remained long after the business was abandoned. The next house was the Adams house, built for the son of Joseph Adams, of Winter Hill. This house is more than a hundred years old, and to it the Lady Superior and thirty scholars fled for protection on the night of the burning of the Ursuline Convent, August, 1834. On the same side of the street and next below lived the family of Mr. Griffi
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
, 6. Middlesex Canal, Rafts on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Regulations of 7. Middlesex Canal, Toll on, 4. Middlesex Canal Tow Path, 7. Middlesex Village, 1, 5, 9, 10. Milborne, Captain, Peter, 29. Milk Row, District of, 15, 87, 88. Milk Row Primary School, 70. Milk Row School, 89, 90, 91, 93. Milk Street, Boston, 30. Miller, James, 90. Miller, Richard, 12. Miller, Stephen, 90, 91. Mistick, 31, 32. Mistick River, 29. Mitchell, Luther, 22. 38. Mitchell, —, 79. Mitchell, Nathaniel, 22. Morse. Rev. Abner, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56. Mount Benedict, 3, 9. Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 74. Much Bromley, Essex County, Eng., 73. Mystick Bridge, 19. Mystic Lake, 11. Mystic Pond, 36, 87. Mystic River, 3, 6, 30, 31. Mystic Trotting Park, 3. Mystic Valley Railroad, 11. Nahumkeck (Salem), 29. Nashua & Lowell Railroad, 9. Natascot, 32. Nathan Tufts Park, 20. Nayland, Suffolk County, Eng., 13, 82. Neighborhood Sketch No. 7, 22. Neighborhood Sketch No. 7,
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, chapter 4 (search)
eep, His mortal body lies; Surviving friends forbear to weep, For virtue never dies. [Emblem, chain with broken link.] Parted Below United Above< Nathaniel Mitchell, died Sept. 15, 1851, aged 46 y'rs. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his. Thomas Rand, died Mar. 12, 1850, aged 90 y'rs69 yrs. In Memory of Edward S., died May 15, 1842, aged 5 yrs. 5 mos. & 24 ds.; Luther 2d, died Jan. 20, 1846, aged 9 yrs. & 2 mos. Children of Mary L. & Nathaniel Mitchell. In Memory of Mary L., wife of Nathaniel Mitchell, who died Nov. 14, 1841, aged 29 yrs. & 9 ds. Also their child, Mary Frances, died Oct. 11, 1841, aged Nathaniel Mitchell, who died Nov. 14, 1841, aged 29 yrs. & 9 ds. Also their child, Mary Frances, died Oct. 11, 1841, aged 1 yr. & 3 mos. Mrs. Mary Ann, wife of Mr. Luther Mitchell, died Dec. 11, 1836, Aet 28. Also their Infant child. Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Mary Fenley, wife of Captain Charles Fenley, who died Jan. 13, 1822, Aet 33. Oh, thou who sleep'st within this narrow bed, Untimely fall'n beneath the fatal blow, Accept the tear thy
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, Old Cemetery Inscriptions <*> (search)
hter of George K. & Eliza R. Fullick, died Sept. 9, 1853, aged 2 yrs. & 3 mos. Sweet child! God called thee home. Frances C. Sherman, wife of James K. Harley, died at Norwalk, Conn., May 6, 1853, aged 26 yrs. Also her infant, Leonora, aged 6 mos. Adeline Frances, daughter of Clark & Hannah Bennett, died Aug. 18, 1852, aged 5 yrs. & 9 mos. Bright, joyous, but fleeting. In Memory of William W. Watson, born March 16, 1835, died Sept. 13, 1852, aged 17 yrs. 6 mos. Nathaniel Mitchell, died Sept. 15, 1851, aged 46 yrs. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his. To the Memory of Albert Henry, only child of Albert & Nancy J. Kenneson, died Jan. 26, 1846, aged 9 mos. & 6 days. Here thy toys, neglected lying, There thine empty cradle bed; Here thy little dress, O Henry, Can it be that thou art dead? He's dead! yet death can scarcely chill His smiling beauties, though he lay With cold, extended limbs, for still His face looked fairer th
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, Index (search)
Samuel, 17. McLean Asylum, 24. McLearn, Annie, 68. McLearn. Elizabeth, 68. McLearn, John J., 68. McLellan Hospital, 5. McNall, George, 17. McQuade, John, 11. Mead, Sarah A., 32. Menotomy River, 87. Merritt, John S., 17. Methodist Church, 31. Milk Row School to 1849, 25-41. Milk Street Primary, 26. Mills, Edwin, 17. Miller, Colonel, 62. Mitchell, Edward S., 46. Mitchell, Luther, 65. Mitchell, Luther, 2nd, 46. Mitchell, Mary Ann, 46. Mitchell, Mary L., 46. Mitchell, Nathaniel, 44, 46, 69. Monongahela, Flagship, 60. Moore, Governor, 57. Moran, James, 9, 17. Morse, Rev., Abner, 87. Morton, Rev., Charles, 79, 80. Moulton, Ellen, 24. Moulton, William, 17, 19. Mount Hermon Lodge, Medford, 72. Mousal, John, 80. Mt. Auburn, 33. Mudge, Ezra, 73. Munroe, Edwin, 34. Munroe, Edwin, Jr., 74. Munroe, James, 47. Myers, George, 17. Mystic River, 28. National Fast, 1. Neck of Land, 63. Necrology, Report of Committee on, 21-24, 71, 72. Nelson,
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Dangerously III. (search)
will, while in Washington, sojourn with the President by special invitation. The Crittenden resolutions have passed the New Jersey Senate, the Republicans to a man voting against them. Among the novelties in New York churches is a hydraulic engine for "blowing the organ. " The report that Ex-President Pierce has sold out his bank stocks, &c., is contradicted by the Concord (N. H.) Patriot. Gen. Harney, it is stated, will command the military in the District of Columbia upon the occasion of Lincoln's inauguration. John H. Collins and C. W. Gall, attached to the Campbell Minstrels, died of yellow fever in Cuba, recently. Twenty-three negroes were sold at Ports-mouth, Va., on Friday, for $8,716. At Block Island, Mass., on Saturday night, Nathaniel Mitchell was murdered by his wife. Dr. Theo. F. Strachan, and old physician, of Petersburg, Va., died on the 24th Inst. Jacob Roller, aged over 100 years, died in Scott county, Va., on the 9th Inst.