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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woodbridge, William 1780-1861 (search)
Woodbridge, William 1780-1861 Governor; born in Norwich, Conn., Aug. 20, 1780; went with his father to Marietta, O., in 1791, being one of the first settlers of the Northwestern Territory; was admitted to the bar in 1806; prosecuting attorney for New London county, O., in 1808-14; made secretary of Michigan Territory by President Madison, and settled in Detroit; member of Congress in 1819-20; judge of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1828-32; governor of Michigan in 1840-41, member of the United States Senate in 1841-47. He died in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 20, 1861.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
midst of neat dwelling-houses, and of a people that owned the soil and themselves held the plough, in the very heart of New England culture, where the old Puritan spirit, as it had existed among the Best in the days of Milton, had been preserved with the least admixture, the cavalcade halted, saying, We cannot all hear and see so well in a house; we had as good have the business done here; and they chap. XVI.} 1765. Sept. bade Ingersoll resign. Is it fair, said he, that the counties of New London and Windham should dictate to all the rest of the colony? It don't signify to parley, they answered; here are a great many people waiting, and you must resign. I wait, said he, to know the sense of the government. Besides, were I to resign, the governor has power to put in another. Here, said they, is the sense of the government; and no man shall exercise your office. What will follow if I won't resign? Your fate. I can die, said Ingersoll, and, perhaps, as well now as at any time;
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
ds of liberty through the whole realm; yea, and as far as your case is known, it will gain you the esteem and the admiration of the whole world. Such was the spirit of the clergy of Connecticut; and such the conduct and such the language of the New London Gazette; patriots grew up within its sphere, and he who would single out in the country chap. XIX.} 1765 Nov. the region, where at that time the fire of patriotism burned with the purest flame, can find none surpassing the county of New London. The royalists of New-York, like Bernard, at Boston, railed at all Connecticut as a land of republicans, and maligned Yale College, as a seminary of democracy, the prolific mother of patriots The pretended patriots, educated in a seminary of Democracy. Gage to Sir W. Johnson, 20 Sept. 1765. In New-York, the whole city rose up as one man in opposition to the Stamp Act. The sailors came from their shipping; the people flocked in, as Gage thought, by thousands; the number seemed to be
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
y the aid of tar barrels, they were thoroughly consumed in a bonfire. The resolutions of New-York were carried swiftly to Connecticut. The town of Wallingford voted a fine of twenty shillings on any of its inhabitants that should use or improve any stamped vellum or paper; and the Sons of Liberty of that place, adopting the words of their brethren of New-York, were ready to oppose the unconstitutional Stamp Act to the last extremity, even to take the field. The people of the county of New London, meeting at Lyme, declared the general safety and privileges of all the colonies to depend on a firm union. They were ready on all occasions to assist the neighboring provinces to repel all violent attempts to subvert their common liberties; and they appointed Major John Durkee to correspond with the Sons of Liberty in the adjoining colonies. Israel Putnam, the brave patriot of Pomfret,—whose people had declared, that their connection with England was derived only from a compact, their f