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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agreement of the people, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cromwell , Oliver 1599 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Entail of estate. (search)
Entail of estate.
A disposition of esstates to certain classes of descendants in which the legal course of succession of some descendants is cut off. The earliest English law of entail is found in the statute of Westminster in 1285.
In the United States this law came over with the general body of enactments known as the common law of England.
Virginia abolished entail in 1776, and in recent years the laws governing such disposition of property have been gradually abandoned, and the purposes of entail are accomplished by other legal procedure.
It is believed that Gardiner's Island, N. Y., is the only property in the United States now held entail by direct descendants of the grantee.
See Gardiner, lion.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), George (Augustus Frederick) 1762 -1830 (search)
George (Augustus Frederick) 1762-1830
King of Great Britain; born in St. James's Palace, London, Aug. 12, 1762.
In consequence of the insanity of George III., George, the Prince of Wales, was created by Parliament regent of the kingdom.
The act for that purpose passed Feb. 5, 1811, and from that time until the death of his father, George was acting monarch.
On Jan. 9, 1813, he issued from the royal palace at Westminster a manifesto concerning the causes of the war with the United States, and the subjects of blockades and impressments.
He declared the war was not the consequence of any fault of Great Britain, but that it had been brought on by the partial conduct of the American government in overlooking the aggressions of the French, and in their negotiations with them.
He
George IV. alleged that a quarrel with Great Britain had been sought because she had adopted measures solely retaliatory as to France, and that as these measures had been abandoned by a repeal of the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gettysburg , battle of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hakluyt , Richard 1553 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe , Richard , Earl 1725 -1799 (search)
Howe, Richard, Earl 1725-1799
Naval officer; born in England, March 19, 1725; was educated at Westminster and Eton; and succeeded to the Irish viscounty and the family estate on the death of his brother, George Augustus Howe, killed near Ticonderoga in 1758.
In 1739 he was a midshipman in Anson's fleet, and was made post-captain for gallantry in 1745.
He entered Parliament in 1757, and in 1765 was made treasurer of the British navy.
In October, 1770, he was promoted to
Richard Howe. rearadmiral of the blue, and in 1776 was sent to command the British fleet on the American station, charged with a commission, jointly with his brother, William Howe, to make peace with or war upon the Americans.
They failed to secure peace, and made war. After leaving the Delaware with his fleet, in 1778, he had an encounter off Rhode Island with a French fleet, under the Count d'estaing, when he disappeared from the American waters.
In 1782 he was made admiral of the blue, and created an Eng
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