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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Badgar, Oscar Charles, 1823- (search)
Badgar, Oscar Charles, 1823- Naval officer; born in Windham, Conn., Aug. 12, 1823; served throughout the Mexican and Civil Wars; retired as commodore in 1885; died June 20, 1899.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dyer, Eliphalet, 1721-1807 (search)
Dyer, Eliphalet, 1721-1807 Jurist; born in Windham, Conn., Sept. 28, 1721; graduated at Yale College in 1740; became a lawyer; and was a member of the Connecticut legislature from 1745 to 1762. He commanded a regiment in the French and Indian in 1779. He was judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut in 1766, and was chief-justice from 1789 to 1793. He died in Windham, May 13, 1807. Judge Dyer is alluded to in the famous doggerel poem entitled Lawyers and Bullfrogs, the introduction to kin too! Owing to some peculiarity in the state of the atmosphere, the sounds seemed to be overhead, and the people of Windham were greatly frightened. The poet says: This terrible night the parson did fright His people almost in despair; Fo almost in despair; For poor Windham souls among the beanpoles He made a most wonderful prayer. Lawyer Lucifer called up his crew; Dyer and Elderkin, you must come, too: Old Colonel Dyer you know well enough, He had an old negro, his name was Cuff.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huntington, Samuel 1731-1796 (search)
Huntington, Samuel 1731-1796 Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Windham, Conn., July 3, 1731; was brought up on his father's farm and learned the cooper's trade. In 1753 he began to study law; in 1758 settled in the town of Norwich, which he represented in the General Assembly in 1764; in 1765 was made king's attorney; and in 1775 was a member of the upper house in the Connecticut Assembly; was a member of the Continental Congress in 1776-83; president of it in 1779-81; judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut in 1774-84, and in the latter year was chiefjustice of that court. He was lieutenantgovernor of Connecticut in 1785, and governor in 1786-96. He died in Norwich, Conn., Jan. 5, 1796.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Perkins, Samuel 1767-1850 (search)
Perkins, Samuel 1767-1850 Author; born in Lisbon, Conn., in 1767; graduated at Yale College in 1785; studied theology, and for a time preached, but afterwards became a lawyer. His publications included History of the political and military events of the late War between the United States and Great Britain; General Jackson's conduct in the Seminole War; and Historical sketches of the United States, 1815-30. He died in Windham, Conn., in September, 1850.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Putnam, Israel 1718- (search)
lic-houses, especially in this parish. The French officer rescuing Putnam from the Indians. They have approbated two houses in the centre, where there never was custom (I mean travelling custom) enough for one. The other custom (or domestic), I have been informed, has of late years increased, and the licensing of another house, I fear, would increase it more. As I kept a public house here myself a number of years before the war, I had an opportunity of knowing, and certainly do know, that the travelling custom is too trifling for a man to lay himself out so as to keep such a house as travellers have a right to expect; therefore I hope your honors will consult the good of this parish, so as only to license one of the two houses. I shall not undertake to say which ought to be licensed: your honors will act according to your best information. I am, with esteem, your honors' humble servant, Israel Putnam. To the Honorable County Court, to be held at Windham on the 19th inst.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ripley, James Wolfe 1794-1870 (search)
Ripley, James Wolfe 1794-1870 Soldier; born in Windham, Conn., Dec. 10, 1794; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1814; served in the War of 1812, participating in the defence of Sackett's Harbor. During the Seminole War he was engaged in the capture of Pensacola and San Carlos de Barrancas. He received the brevet of brigadier-general in 1861, and later was promoted to full rank. He died in Hartford, Conn., March 16, 1870.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
estern unions......Feb. 22, 1782 Residents of Brattleboro, Guilford, and Halifax, in a petition prepared by Charles Phelps to Governor Clinton, of New York, complain of the Vermont government, and ask New York to assume jurisdiction over Windham county......April 30, 1782 Governor Chittenden commissions Gen. Ethan Allen, Sept. 2, to raise 250 volunteers, and march into Windham county as a posse comitatus to enforce Vermont laws. This force, doubled by volunteers from Windham county, arrWindham county, arrests some twenty leaders of the rebellion, Charles Phelps escaping, Sept. 10; these leaders are tried at Westminster and banished from the State......Sept. 11, 1782 First school law; towns are empowered to form school districts and to elect trustees......Oct. 22, 1782 Legislature establishes post-offices and a postmaster-general; the rates of postage to be the same as in the United States ......1784 Grant to Reuben Harmon, Jr., of Rupert, of the exclusive privilege of coining copper for
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Waldo, Daniel 1762-1864 (search)
Waldo, Daniel 1762-1864 Clergyman; born in Windham, Conn., Sept. 10, 1762; graduated at Yale College in 1788; was a soldier in the Revolutionary army; suffered the horrors of imprisonment in a sugar-house in New York, and was pastor and missionary from 1792. At the age of ninety-three he was chaplain of the national House of Representatives, when his voice and step were as vigorous as a man of sixty. He died in Syracuse, N. Y., July 30, 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walsh, Robert 1784-1859 (search)
Walsh, Robert 1784-1859 Author; born in Baltimore, Md., in 1784; received a collegiate education; admitted to the bar and began practice in Philadelphia, Pa., but later abandoned law and engaged in journalism; founded the National gazette in 1819, and was connected with it till 1836; editor of the American review in 1827-37; United States consul at Paris, France, in 1845-51. He was the author of Essay on the future State of Europe; Appeal from the judgment of Great Britain respecting the United States; The select speeches of George Canning; The select speeches of Windham and William Huskisson, etc. He died in Paris, France, Feb. 7, 1859.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheelock, Eleazar 1711-1779 (search)
Wheelock, Eleazar 1711-1779 Educator; born in Windham, Conn., April 22, 1711; graduated at Yale College in 1733; was pastor of a Congregational church at Lebanon, Conn., in 1735, and remained there thirty-five years. He opened a school there in 1754, in which was a bright Indian pupil, Samson Occum. His proficiency led to the establishment of Moore's Indian School, which eventually became Dartmouth College, of which Dr. Wheelock was the first president. He died in Hanover, N. H., April 24, 1779.
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