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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Londonderry, Marquis of (search)
Londonderry, Marquis of See Shelburne.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stark, John 1728-1832 (search)
Stark, John 1728-1832 Military officer; born in Londonderry, N. H., Aug. 28, 1728; removed, with his father, to Derryfield (now Manchester) when he was about eight years old. In 1752, while on a hunting excursion, he was made a prisoner by the St. Francis Indians, and was ransomed in a few weeks for $103. He became popular with the Indians, and was adopted into their tribe. In 1755 he was made lieutenant of Rogers's Rangers, and performed good service during the French and Indian War. A member of the committee of safety at the commencement of the John Stark. Revolution, he was alive to the importance of every political event. On the news of the fight at Lexington, he hastened to Cambridge and was immediately chosen colonel of the New Hampshire troops. He was efficient in the battle on Bunker (Breed's) Hill. Near the close of 1776, after doing effective service in the Northern Department, he joined Washington on the Delaware. He commanded the vanguard in the battle at Trento
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
mbling, Jan. 3, 1787, finds votes cast on separation 994, 645 being yeas; motion to present the petition to the legislature lost, but was presented the year following.] General Court sets off from Lincoln county the new counties of Hancock, from Penobscot Bay to the head of Gouldsborough River, and Washington, east of Hancock......June 25, 1789 Bangor incorporated......Feb. 25, 1791 Last meeting of the Salem Presbytery, marking the decline of the Presbyterian Church founded at Londonderry, N. H., in 1719, is held at Gray......Sept. 14, 1791 Charter granted by the General Court for Bowdoin College in Brunswick......June 24, 1794 Augusta (the ancient Cushnoc) incorporated under the name of Harrington, Feb. 20, 1790; changed to Augusta......June 9, 1796 At Providence, the commission appointed to determine and settle, according to the Jay treaty, what river was the St. Croix, made a report that the mouth of the river is in Passamaquoddy Bay, in lat. 45° 5′ 5″ N., and long
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Hampshire, (search)
sguise firing upon the Indians, who suppose the place well garrisoned......April, 1706 Indian hostilities cease on the arrival of news of the treaty of Utrecht, and a treaty ratified with them......July 11, 1713 George Vaughan made lieutenant-governor and Samuel Shute commander-in chief of the province......Oct. 13, 1716 Vaughan superseded by John Wentworth, by commission signed by Joseph Addison, English Secretary of State......Dec. 7, 1717 Sixteen Scottish families settle at Londonderry, and the first Presbyterian church in New England is organized by Rev. James McGregorie......1719 Capt. John Lovewell makes his first excursion against the Indians in New Hampshire......December, 1724 A grant of land made by New Hampshire to the survivors of the Lovewell defeat at Fryeburg, Me., overlaps a similar grant by Massachusetts in Bow county, which leads to a boundary litigation between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, which lasts forty years. Grants made......May 18-20, 17
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
guns, wrecked off Halifax; 300 lives lost......Nov. 16, 1797 Transport Aeneas wrecked off Newfoundland; 340 lives lost......Oct. 23, 1805 Transport Harpooner wrecked near Newfoundland; 200 lives lost......Nov. 10, 1816 Magazine of steam-frigate Fulton explodes at Brooklyn navy-yard; vessel entirely destroyed; twenty-six lives lost......June 4, 1829 Brig Billow lost in storm on Ragged Island, N. S.; all on board, 137 in number, perish......April 9, 1831 Lady Sherbrooke, from Londonderry to Quebec; lost near Cape Ray; 273 persons perish; thirty-two only saved......Aug. 19, 1831 Ship Lady of the Lake, on passage to Quebec, wrecked on an iceberg; 215 lives lost......May 11, 1833 Steamboat Royal Tar, of St. John's, N. B., destroyed by fire in Penobscot Bay; thirty-two lives lost......Oct. 25, 1836 Ship Bristol, on passage from Liverpool to New York, wrecked near Rockaway, L. I.; seventy lives lost......Nov. 20, 1836 Ship Mexico, from Liverpool, wrecked on Hemps