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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Livingston, William 1723-1790 (search)
l laws, in 1752. For a while he published the Independent Reflector. Thoroughly educated at Yale College, he possessed many solid as well as brilliant attainments in law and literature, and was an elegant and facile writer. Behind the mask of anonymity, Mr. Livingston dealt heavy blows in favor of Presbyterianism, and against Episcopacy, in his weekly periodical, first published late in 1752. In 1757 he published, in defence of Governor Shirley, a Review of the military operations in North America from 1753 to April 14, 1756, in a letter to a nobleman. The following year he was elected a member of the New York Assembly. Having purchased land in Elizabethtown, N. J., he built a fine mansion there, which he called Liberty Hall, and removed there in 1773. He early espoused the cause of the oppressed colonies, and was a representative of New Jersey in the first Continental Congress (1774). He was again a delegate to that body in 1775, but was soon called (June 5) to command the m
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), London Company, the (search)
London Company, the Twenty years after Raleigh's first attempt to establish a colony in America, Richard Hakluyt, prebendary of Westminster, incited several gentlemen, some of them personal friends of Raleigh, to petition King James I. to grant them a patent for planting colonies in North America. Raleigh's grant was made void by his attainder. There was not an Englishman to be found in America then, and there was only one permanent settlement north of Mexico, that of St. Augustine. The petition was received by the King, and on April 10, 1606, James issued letters-patent to Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Richard Hakluyt, Edward Maria Wingfield, and others, granting to them a territory extending from lat. 34° to 45° N., together with all the islands in the ocean within 100 miles of the coast. The object of the patent was to make habitations and plantations, and to form colonies by sending English people into that portion of America commonly called Virginia, with the hope
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
attempted to introduce 6,000 white people and half as many negroes, and private individuals to whom grants of land had been made also sent out colonists. Law, having 12 square miles of land in Arkansas, undertook to settle the domain with 1,500 Germans. The Mississippi Company resigned Louisiana to the crown in 1732. On Oct. 21, 1764, the King of France gave orders to his director-general and commandant for Louisiana to deliver up to the King of Spain all the French possessions in North America not already ceded to Great Britain. These orders were given in consequence of an act passed at Fontainebleau on Nov. 3, 1762, by which the French King ceded to the King of Spain, and to his successors, the whole country known as Louisiana, together with New Orleans, and the island on which the said city is situated, and of another act passed at the Escurial on Nov. 13, in the same year, by which his Catholic Majesty accepted that cession. When Bonaparte became actual ruler of France
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McGill, Thomas D'arcy 1825- (search)
McGill, Thomas D'arcy 1825- Legislator; born in Carlingford, Ireland, April 13, 1825; came to the United States in 1842; appointed on the staff of the Pilot in Boston, but soon returned to Ireland, where he made himself conspicuous by his advocacy of the policy proposed by the Young Ireland party. Suspected by the British government of treason, he escaped to the United States, settling in New York, where he founded The American Celt and The nation. He removed to Canada in 1856, founded The New era, and was elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1857. His political views had changed, and he parted company with his old associates. He was active in promoting the union of the British colonies in North America, and was elected a member of the first Parliament of the Dominion. On April 7, 1868, he was assassinated on the public street.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), MacKENZIEenzie, Sir Alexander 1755-1820 (search)
MacKENZIEenzie, Sir Alexander 1755-1820 Explorer; born in Inverness. Scotland, about 1755; was early engaged in the fur-trade in Canada. He set out to explore the vast wilderness northward in June, 1789, having spent a year previously in England studying astronomy and navigation. At the western part of the Great Slave Lake he entered a river in an unexplored wilderness, and gave his name to it. Its course was followed until July 12, when his voyage was terminated by ice and he returned to his place of departure, Fort Chippewayan. He had reached lat. 69° 1′ N. In October, 1792, He crossed the continent to the Pacific Ocean, which he reached in July, 1793, in lat. 51° 21′ N. He returned, went to England, and published (1801) Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Lawrence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific oceans, in the years 1789 and 1793, with excellent maps. He was knighted in 1802, and died in Dalhousie, Scotland, March 12,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mandrillon, Joseph 1743- (search)
Mandrillon, Joseph 1743- Author; born in Bourg, France, in 1743; received a commercial education; came to the United States with the intention of founding branches of a bank which he proposed to open in Amsterdam on his return to Europe. When the French Revolution began he was tried and guillotined as a constitutional royalist in Paris, Jan. 7, 1794. His publications include The travelling American, or observations on the actual State, culture, and commerce of the British colonies in America; and The American Spectator, or General remarks on North America.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), entry manifest-destiny- (search)
ot be readmitted to voluntary co-operation in the general government, but must henceforth be held as conquered territory—a most dangerous experiment for any free people to try. Yet within a dozen years we find the old federal relations resumed in all their completeness, and the disunion party powerless and discredited in the very States where once it had wrought such mischief. It is enough to point to the general conclusion, that the work which the English race began when it colonized North America is destined to go on until every land on the earth's surface that is not already the seat of an old civilization shall become English in its language, in its political habits and traditions, and to a predominant extent in the blood of its people. We have not yet done away with robbery and murder, but we have at least made private warfare illegal; we have arrayed public opinion against it to such an extent that the police court usually makes short shrift for the misguided man who tries
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marcou, Jules 1824-1898 (search)
to the Pacific coast. In 1861-64 he had charge of the division of paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, an institution which he founded in conjunction with Professor Agassiz, in Cambridge, Mass. His publications include Recherches geologiques sur la Jura Salinois; Geological map of the United States and British provinces of North America; Geology of North America; Geological map of the world; A catalogue of Geological maps of America, etc. He died in Paris, France, April 16, 1898.to the Pacific coast. In 1861-64 he had charge of the division of paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, an institution which he founded in conjunction with Professor Agassiz, in Cambridge, Mass. His publications include Recherches geologiques sur la Jura Salinois; Geological map of the United States and British provinces of North America; Geology of North America; Geological map of the world; A catalogue of Geological maps of America, etc. He died in Paris, France, April 16, 1898.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marsh, Othniel Charles 1831-1899 (search)
nt of the National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of numerous scientific organizations. In 1898 he presented the collections of his lifetime to Yale University, and also gave his estate, having a supposed value of $150,000, to that institution. His publications include Odontornithes: a monograph on the extinct Toothed birds of North America; Dinocerata: a monograph of an extinct order of gigantic mammals; and The dinosaurs of North America. He died in New Haven, Conn., March 18, 1899.nt of the National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of numerous scientific organizations. In 1898 he presented the collections of his lifetime to Yale University, and also gave his estate, having a supposed value of $150,000, to that institution. His publications include Odontornithes: a monograph on the extinct Toothed birds of North America; Dinocerata: a monograph of an extinct order of gigantic mammals; and The dinosaurs of North America. He died in New Haven, Conn., March 18, 1899.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marshall, John, Ll.d. 1755- (search)
resident Washington offered Marshall the post of Attorney-General, but he declined. On the return of Monroe from France, Washington offered the mission to Marshall, but it, too, was declined. He afterwards accepted the post of special envoy to France from President Adams, and was associated in that fruitless mission with Messrs. Pinckney and Gerry. In 1799 Mr. Marshall was in the Congress, and in 1800 was made Secretary of War, which office he held only a short time. He succeeded Timothy Pickering as Secretary of State, May 3, 1800, and on the resignation of Chief-Justice Ellsworth he was appointed his successor, June 1, 1801, and held the office until his death, in Philadelphia, Pa., July 6, 1835. Chief-Justice Marshall was president of the American Colonization Society and vice-president of the American Bible Society. He was also the author of a Life of Washington, published in 5 volumes in 1805. He also wrote a History of the colonies planted by the British in North America.
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