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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts, (search)
il to Aug., 1757 Thomas Pownall1757 to 1760 Thomas HutchisonJune to Aug., 1760 Sir Francis Bernard1760 to 1769 Thomas Hutchinson1769 to 1771 Thomas Hutchinson1771 to 1774 The Council1774 to 1780 Governors under the State Constitution. Name.Party.Term. John Hancock1780 to 1785 James Bowdoin1785 to 1787 John Hancock1787 to Oct., 1793 Samuel Adams1793 to 1794 Samuel Adams1794 to 1797 Increase Sumner1797 to June, 1799 Moses Gill1799 to 1800 Caleb StrongFederal.1800 to 1807 James SullivanDem.-Rep.1807 to Dec., 1808 Levi LincolnDem.-Rep.1808 to 1809 Christopher GoreFederal.1809 to 1810 Elbridge GerryDem.-Rep.1810 to 1812 Caleb StrongFederal.1812 to 1816 John BrooksFederal.1816 to 1823 William EustisDem.-Rep.1823 to Feb., 1825 Marcus MortonDem.-Rep.Feb. to July, 1825 Levi LincolnDemocrat.1825 to 1834 John DavisWhig.1834 to March, 1835 Samuel T. ArmstrongWhig.March, 1835. to 1836 Edward EverettWhig.1836 to 1840 Marcus MortonWhig.1840 to 1841 John DavisDemocrat.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maxwell, William 1775- (search)
Maxwell, William 1775- Military officer; born in New Jersey; was made colonel of the 2d New Jersey Battalion in 1775, and served in the campaign in Canada in 1776. He had been in the provincial army continually for fifteen years before the Revolutionary War broke out. In October, 1776, he was appointed brigadier-general, and, in command of a New Jersey brigade, was distinguished at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He was in Sullivan's campaign in 1779, and soon after the action at Springfield, N. J., in 1780, he resigned. He died Nov. 12, 1798.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
the next. They passed over the Ohio from Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia; and the governor of Ohio sent forward 2,000 men under General Tupper for the recovery of Michigan. General Harrison was appointed commander-in-chief of the Army of the Northwest. For several weeks volunteers found employment in driving the hostile Indians from post to post, in Ohio and Indiana, on the borders of the extreme western settlements. They desolated their villages and plantations, after the manner of Sullivan in 1779, and thereby incurred the fiercest indignation of the tribes. Harrison took steps early to relieve the frontier posts—Fort Harrison, on the Wabash; Fort Wayne, at the head of the Maumee; Fort Defiance, at the junction of the Auglaize and Maumee; and Fort Deposit. At Vincennes General Hopkins had assembled about 4,000 mounted Kentucky militia to chastise the Indians on the borders of Illinois. They penetrated the Indian country beyond the Wabash; but, becoming alarmed, returned
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minisink, desolation of (search)
ke. The survivors of the conflict attempted to escape. Behind a ledge of rocks Dr. Tusten had been dressing the wounds of his companions all day. When the retreat began he had seventeen under his care. The Indians fell upon these with fury, and all, with the doctor, were slain. The flower of the youth and mature manhood of that region had perished. Monument at Goshen. The event made thirty-three widows in the congregation of the Presbyterian church at Goshen. It gave firmness to Sullivan's men, who, a few weeks afterwards, desolated the beautiful land of the Cayugas and Senecas. In 1822 the citizens of Orange county collected the bones of the slain, and caused them to be buried near the centre of the green at the foot of the main street of the village of Goshen. There was a great multitude of citizens present. Over their remains a new marble monument was erected the same year, the corner-stone of which was laid by General Hathorn, then over eighty years of age, and one o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mississippi, (search)
38 Thomas H. Williams 25th 1838 John Henderson 26th to 28th 1839 to 1845 Joseph W. Chalmers 29th 1845 Jesse Speight 29th to 30th 1845 to 1847 Jefferson Davis 30th to 32d 1847 to 1851 Henry S. Foote 30th to 32d 1847 to 1851 John I. McRae 32d 1852 Stephen Adams 32d to 34th 1852 to 1857 Walter Brooke 32d 1852 to 1853 Albert G. Brown 33d to 36th 1854 to 1861 Jefferson Davis 35th to 36th 1857 to 1861 [37th, 38th, 39th, 40th Congresses vacant.] Adelbert Ames 41st to 43d 1870 to 1874 Hiram R. Revels (colored). 41st 1870 to 1871 United States Senators—Continued. Name. No. of Congress. Term. James Lusk Alcorn 42d to 44th 1871 to 1877 Henry R. Pease 43d 1874 Blanche K. Bruce (colored) 44th to 46th 1875 to 1881 Lucius Q. C. Lamar 45th to 48th 1877 to 1885 James Z. George 47th to 54th 1881 to 1897 Edward C. Walthall 49th to 53d 1885 to 1894 A. J. McLaurin 53d to 54th 1894 to 1895 Hernando De Soto Money 54th to — 1897 to — Will Van Amberg Sullivan 55th to — 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Brunswick, skirmish at (search)
New Brunswick, skirmish at In June, 1777, Sir William Howe tried to outgeneral Washington in New Jersey, but failed, and was compelled to retreat. Washington held Howe firmly in check at and near New Brunswick, on the Raritan; and on June 20 the former, with his army at Middlebrook, learned that his antagonist was preparing to fall back to Amboy. Hoping to cut off his rearguard, Washington ordered (June 21) Maxwell to lie between New Brunswick and Amboy, and Sullivan to join Greene near the former place, while the main body should rest within supporting distance. These orders failed of execution On the morning of the 22d the column of Germans, under De Heister, began its march towards Amboy. The corps of Cornwallis moved more slowly, for it had to cross the Raritan over a narrow bridge, near the end of which stood Howe, on high ground, watching the movements Greene had a battery of three guns on a hill, but too far distant to be effective When more than one-half of Cornwallis
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sullivan, James 1744-1808 (search)
Sullivan, James 1744-1808 Lawyer; born in Berwick, Me., April 22, 1744; began practice in Biddeford in 1770; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1779-80; attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1790-1807; elected governor in 1807 and 1808. His publications include Observations on the government of the United States; History of the District of Maine; History of land-titles in Massachusetts; Dissertation on the constitutional liberty of the press; Correspondence with Colonel Pickering; History of the Penobscot Indians, in the Massachusetts Historical collections, etc. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 10, 1808.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), William and Mary, Fort (search)
found that no fitting opponent could be secured. Then James Sullivan—afterwards successively judge, attorney-general, and gontroversies between the colonies and the mother-country, Sullivan took a most active share in the discussions, and, when thp to Sullivan's house in Durham. One of the survivors of Sullivan's company died only some thirty years ago, and from his levere's horse, he said, was nearly done when pulled up at Sullivan's door. The rider had been despatched with all speed froiments were forthwith to Paul Revere bringing news to Sullivan. march from Boston to occupy Portsmouth and the fort in ing his wearied beast, Revere rode on to Portsmouth. In Sullivan's mind the hour had evidently come for decisive action. nett, the survivor before mentioned: I was working for Major Sullivan, he said, when Micah Davis came up and told me Major Major Sullivan wanted me to go to Portsmouth, and to get all the men I could to go with him. The men who went, as far as I can rem