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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Livingston , William 1723 -1790 (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), 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)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marcou , Jules 1824 -1898 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marsh , Othniel Charles 1831 -1899 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marshall , John , Ll.d. 1755 - (search)