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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 4 2 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
......1738 Supposed negro plot to burn New York. Thirteen negroes burned, twenty hanged, and seventy transported to the West Indies......March, 1741 Sir George Clinton, governor......Sept. 20, 1743 French and Indians destroy the village of Saratoga and carry away captive over 100 men, women, and children......Nov. 28, 1745 Peace between England and France......October, 1748 Theatre established in New York City......1750 Governor Clinton resigns......Sept. 7, 1753 Sir Danvers Osborne, governor, Sept. 7; commits suicide by hanging......Sept. 12, 1753 James De Lancey, acting governor......1753 Convention representing New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, at Albany to consider a colonial confederacy......June 19, 1754 [Articles of union drawn by Benjamin Franklin.] King's College (now Columbia University), New York City, founded, Rev. W. S. Johnson, D. D., first president......1754 Sir Charles Ha
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
his thoughts very closely to Indian affairs; Thomas Penn to James Hamilton, 12 August, 1753. and hardly had he sailed, when, in September, the Lords of Trade directed commissioners from the northern colonies to meet the next summer at Albany, and make a common treaty with the Six Nations. On the relations of France and England with those tribes and their Western allies, hung the issues of universal peace and American union. During the voyage across the Atlantic, the agitated mind of Osborne, already reeling with private grief, brooded despondingly over the task he had assumed. On the tenth of October, he took the oaths of office at New York; and the people who welcomed him with acclamations, hooted his predecessor. I expect the like treatment, said he to Clinton, before I leave the government. On the same day, he was startled by an address from the city council, who declared they would not brook any infringement of their inestimable liberties, civil and religious. On the n
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
re ever ready to furnish precedents for future measures of oppression. The Newcastle ministry proceeded without regard to method, consistency, or law. The province of New York had replied to the condemnation of its policy, contained in Sir Danvers Osborne's instructions, by a well-founded impeachment of Clinton for embezzling public funds and concealing it by false accounts; for gaining undue profits from extravagant grants of lands, and grants to himself under fictitious names; and for selAmerican by the hand and point out his grievances. I defy you, I beseech you, to point out one grievance. I know not of one. He pronounced a panegyric on the Board of Trade, and defended all their acts, in particular the instructions to Sir Danvers Osborne. The petition of the agent of Massachusetts was not allowed to be brought up. That to the House of Lords no one would offer; Letter of W. Bollan to Secretary Willard, 21 Dec., 1754; and to the Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, 29