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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 4 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Albemarle, the, (search)
n officers and men, part of whom had volunteered for this service. The launch had a cutter in tow. They were within 20 yards of the ram before the were discovered, when its pickets began firing. In the face of a severe discharge of musketry. Cushing pressed to the attack. He drove his launch far into the log barricade, lowered his torpedo boom, and drove it directly under the overhang of the ram. The mine was exploded, and at the same moment one of the guns of the Albemarle hurled a heavy bolt that went crashing through and destroying the launch. Cushing and his companions leaped into the water, but only one besides the commander escaped drowning or capture. Cushing swam ashore, crept into a swamp, and was found and cared for by some negroes. The torpedo had destroyed the Albemarle, and she settled down in the mud in Plymouth Harbor. Plymouth was recaptured (Oct. 31) by a squadron under Commodore Macomb. with some prisoners and valuable stores. See Cushing. William Barker.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
el in the history of the world, covered a territory extending from 40° to 48° of north latitude, and in length from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.] Speedwell, of sixty tons, is purchased in Holland to take part of the English emigrants there to England, and thence across the Atlantic......1620 Leaves Delft, Holland, for Southampton, England......July 22, 1620 Is found to be unfitted for a voyage across the Atlantic and is dismissed......Aug. 21, 1620 Mayflower sails from Plymouth Harbor, having on board 101 passengers......Sept. 6, 1620 After a stormy passage of sixty-three days sights the cliffs of Cape Cod and comes to anchor in Cape Cod Harbor......Nov. 9, 1620 Peregrine White born on board the Mayflower in Cape Cod Harbor. The first white child born in New England......November, 1620 Mayflower sails from Cape Cod Dec. 15, and anchors at Plymouth......Dec. 16, 1620 First death at Plymouth, Richard Butteridge......Dec. 21, 1620 Passengers leave the sh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a merchant of Amsterdam, purchases land of the Indians around Fort Orange through his agent, becoming patroon of the manor of Rensselaerwyck......1630 Michael Pauw purchases of the Indians the site of Jersey City (Pavonia) and Staten Island......1630 New Netherland (800 tons) built at Manhattan......1631 Mohawks receive fire-arms from the Dutch......1631 Peter Minuit, director, recalled......March, 1632 Ship Eendragt, from Manhattan, attacked in Plymouth Harbor, England, on a charge of illegally trading......April 3, 1632 British ministry claim New Netherland as English territory......1632 Eendragt released......May 27, 1632 Wouter Van Twiller, clerk of the West India Company, marries a niece of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer; made governor......1633 Friendly intercourse with the Virginians......1633 Jacob Eelkins (the same person who had previously established a trading-post up the Hudson) visits Manhattan in the William, a London vess
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
ion was ever given to it, and the soldier suffered the loss. It was proposed by the selectmen of Plymouth, to call one of the earthwork forts, being erected in that town for the protection of the harbor, Fort Andrew, in honor of the Governor. On the 16th of March, he wrote to William T. Davis, chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Plymouth, as follows:— No fort as yet bears the name which your Board of Selectmen has so generously proposed for the larger fort now in progress in Plymouth harbor, nor had any ambition of my own ever suggested to my mind the possibility of becoming in that manner associated with such a work. I am deeply sensible of the honor; and, while I feel that it does not properly belong to me, I can only leave to you and your associates the final decision, with the single suggestion that it would seem to me more fitting the occasion to connect the name of Edward Winslow, who was the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony, with one of the fortifications of t
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 4: the hour and the man. (search)
shop window without a name to it, went in and bought it, and framed it as the most saintlike of countenances. The appearance of such a man on the stage of our history as a nation, at this hour, was providential. His coming was in the fulness of time. A rapid review of events anterior to the advent of Garrison will serve to place this matter more clearly before the general reader. To begin, then, at the beginning we have two ships off the American coast, the one casting anchor in Plymouth harbor, the other discharging its cargo at Jamestown. They were both freighted with human souls. But how different! Despotism landed at Jamestown, democracy at Plymouth. Here in the germ was the Southern idea, slave labor, slave institutions; and here also was the Northern idea, free labor, free institutions. Once planted they grew, each seed idea multiplying after its kind. In course of time there arose on one side an industrial system in which the plantation principle, race-rule and ra
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Book XIV: the Pilgrims at Plymouth (A. D. 1620-1621.) (search)
So, after we had given God thanks for our deliverance, we took our shallop, and went our journey, and called this place The First Encounter. Iv.—The landing on Plymouth Rock. [the same exploring-party, in a shallop, finally reached Plymouth harbor.] Having the wind good, we sailed all that day along the coast about fifteen leagues, but saw neither river nor creek to put into. After we had sailed an hour or two, it began to snow and rain, and to be bad weather. About the midst of very good for situation: so we returned to our ship again with good news to the rest of our people, which did much comfort their hearts. V.—Plymouth village founded. >[The expedition having returned to the ship, the Mayflower came to Plymouth harbor, and landed the colonists.] So in the morning, after we had called on God for direction, we came to this resolution, to go presently ashore again, and to take a better view of two places which we thought most fitting for us; for we could