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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
n New Jersey fell into the hands of Penn, Gawen Lawrie, and Nicholas Lucas. The matter was now complicated. Berkeley had disposed of his undivided half of the colony Finally, on July 1, 1676 (O. S.), after much preliminary negotiation, a deed was completed and signed by Carteret on the one side, and Penn, Lawrie, Lucas, and Billinge on the other, which divided the province of New Jersey into two great portions—east Jersey, including all that part lying northeast of a line drawn from Little Egg Harbor to a point on the most northerly branch of the Delaware River, in lat. 41° 40′ N.; and west Jersey, comprehending all the rest of the province originally granted by the Duke of York East Jersey was the property of Sir George Carteret; west Jersey passed into the hands of the associates of the Society of Friends. West Jersey was now divided Quakers on their way to Church in colonial times. into 100 parts, the proprietors setting aside ten for Fenwick, who had made the first settleme
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Olmstead, case of (search)
cut men, was captured at sea by a British vessel and taken to Jamaica, where the captain and three others of the prisoners were compelled or persuaded to enter as sailors on the British sloop Active, then about to sail for New York with stores for the British there. When off the coast of Delaware the captain and the other three Americans contrived to secure the rest of the crew and officers (fourteen in number) below the hatches. They then took possession of the vessel and made for Little Egg Harbor. A short time after, the Active was boarded by the sloop Convention of Philadelphia, and, with the privateer Girard, cruising with her, was taken to Philadelphia. The prize was there libelled in the State court of admiralty. Here the two vessels claimed an equal share in the prize, and the court decreed one-fourth to the crew of the Convention, one-fourth to the State of Pennsylvania as owner of the Convention, one-fourth to the Girard, and the remaining one-fourth only to Olmstead
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pulaski, Count Casimir 1748- (search)
78 his Legion was formed, composed of sixty light horsemen and 200 foot-soldiers. When about to take the field in the South the Moravian nuns, or singing women at Bethlehem, Pa., sent him a banner Count Casimir Pulaski. Greene and Pulaski monument. wrought by them, which he received with grateful acknowledgments, and which he bore until he fell at Savannah in 1779. This event is commemorated in Longfellow's Hymn of the Moravian nuns. The banner is now in possession of the Maryland Historical Society. Surprised near Little Egg Harbor, on the New Jersey coast, nearly all of his foot-soldiers were killed. Recruiting his ranks, he went South in February, 1779, and was in active service under General Lincoln, engaging bravely in the siege of Savannah, Ga. (q. v.), in which he was mortally wounded, taken to the United States brig Wasp, and there died, Oct. 11. The citizens of Savannah erected a monument to Greene and Pulaski, the cornerstone of which was laid by Lafayette in 1825.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
es with a small company of Quakers and settles at Salem......June, 1675 Concessions and agreements of the proprietors of the Fenwick and Byllinge purchase in New Jersey issued; Fenwick to have one-tenth interest, and the assignees of Byllinge nine-tenths, and a government established......March 3, 1676 Quintipartite deed executed between William Penn and others, assignees of Byllinge, and Sir George Carteret, for a division of New Jersey into east and west, by a line drawn from Little Egg Harbor to the most northerly point or boundary on the Delaware, Carteret retaining east Jersey......July 1, 1676 Richard Hartshore and Richard Guy, of east Jersey, and James Wasse sent from England, authorized to establish a government for west Jersey, by the proprietors......Aug. 18, 1676 Nine executive commissioners appointed by the proprietors of west Jersey under a constitution promulgated March 3, 1676, accompanied by a large number of settlers, arrive from England and purchase fro
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
menaces of the proclamation were a confession of weakness. The British army under Clinton could hold no part of the country, and only ravage and destroy by sudden expeditions. Towards the end of Sept. September Cornwallis led a foray into New Jersey; and Major-General Grey with a party of infantry, surprising Baylor's light horse, used the bayonet mercilessly against men that sued for quarter. A band led by Captain Patrick Ferguson in October, Oct. after destroying the shipping in Little Egg harbor, spread through the neighboring country to burn the houses and waste the lands of the patriots. On the night of the fifteenth they surprised light infantry under Pulaski's command; and, cumbering themselves with no prisoners, killed all they could. In November a large party of Indians with bands of Nov. tories and regulars entered Cherry valley by an unguarded pass, and, finding the fort too strong to be taken, murdered and scalped more than thirty of the Chap. V.} 1778. Nov. inha
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seizure of U. S. Property in Texas--Collision Feared. (search)
Marine Disasters — a screw Steamer ashore. New York, March 4. --The brig Adaline Sprague was lost at Tercira, January 28th. --The crew were saved, and arrived here this morning. A screw steamer was seen ashore yesterday morning, a mile and a half north of Little Egg Harbor light-house. She had the Union down, but had steam on. She had run on the beach head on.