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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hamilton , Alexander 1757 - (search)
Hamilton, Alexander 1757-
Statesman; born in Nevis, W. I., Jan. 11, 1757.
His father was a Scotchman; his mother, of Huguenot descent.
He came to the English-American colonies in 1772, and attended a school kept by Francis Barber at Elizabeth, N. J., and entered King's (Columbia) College in 1773.
He made a speech to a popular assemblage in New York City in 1774, when only seventeen years of age, remarkable in every particular, and he aided the patriotic cause by his writings.
In March, 1776, he was made captain of artillery, and served at White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton; and in March, 1777, became aide-de-camp to Washington, and his secretary and trusted confidant.
He was of great assistance to Washington in his correspondence, and in planning campaigns.
In December, 1780, he married a daughter of Gen. Philip Schuyler, and in 1781 he retired from Washington's staff.
In July he was appointed to the command of New York troops, with the rank of colonel, and captured by as
Huger, Isaac -1797
Military officer; born on Limerick Plantation, S. C., March 19, 1742.
He and his four brothers—Daniel, John, Francis, and Benjamin—were distinguished in the struggle for independence, the latter falling in the lines at Charleston, May 11, 1780.
They were of Huguenot descent.
Isaac was in the Cherokee expedition in 1760, and entered the patriot army of South Carolina as lieutenant-colonel in June, 1775.
He rose to brigadier-general in January, 1779, for active and gallant services.
In the attack on Savannah, in the fall of that year, he led the Georgia and South Carolina militia.
His force was defeated and dispersed by Tarleton at Monk's Corner, S. C. He distinguished himself under Greene, especially at Guilford and Hobkirk's Hill (q. v.). He died in Charleston, S. C., Oct. 17, 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huguenot Society of America , the. (search)
Huguenot Society of America, the.
This society was organized April 12, 1883, and has its office in New York at No. 105 East Twenty-second Street. President, Frederic J. De Peyster; vicepresidents, William Jay, Rev. Lea Luquer, Henry M. Lester, A. T. Clearwater, Nathaniel Thayer, Richard Olney, William Ely, Col. R. L. Maury, Rev. A. H. Demarest, Herbert Du Puy; treasurer, Henry Cotheal Swords; secretary, Mrs. James M. Lawton.
Descent from Huguenot ancestors is the qualification necessary for membership.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huguenots. (search)
Huguenots.
The name of Huguenot was first given to the Protestants of France who favored the Reformation, but afterwards it was confined to the Calvinists, or followers of John Calvin, who was the morning-star of the Reformation in that country.
Under his teaching the number of Protestants in France rapidly increased from 1528 to 1559, when the great synod held in May adopted Calvin's ideas of church government and discipline, as well as doctrine, in an embodied confession of faith.
The H
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Laurens , Henry 1724 -1792 (search)
Laurens, Henry 1724-1792
Statesman; born in Charleston, S. C., in 1724; was of Huguenot descent, and was educated in London for mercantile business, in which he acquired a large fortune.
He opposed British aggressions with speech and in writing, and pamphlets which he published displayed remarkable legal ability.
He
Henry Laurens. was engaged in a military campaign against the Cherokees.
In 1770 he retired from business, and went to Europe the next year to superintend the education of his sons; and in England he did what he could to persuade the government to be just towards the Americans.
On his arrival at Charleston, late in 1774, he was chosen president of the Provincial Congress and of the council of safety.
In 1776 he was sent as a delegate to Congress, and was president of that body for a little more than a year from Nov. 1, 1777.
Receiving the appointment of minister to Holland in 1779, he sailed in the Congress packet Mercury, and on Sept. 3, 1780, she was captur
Leisler, Jacob 1660-
Military officer; born in Frankfort, Germany; was of Huguenot descent, and came to America in 1660.
Settling first in Albany, he soon became a trader in New York City.
While on a voyage to Europe in 1678, he, with seven others, was captured by Turkish corsairs, and they were ransomed at a high price.
In 1683 he was appointed a commissioner of the court of admiralty in New York City.
Democracy had then taken firm root among the people in New York, and when news of the accession of William and Mary reached the city the people were much excited by it. The military force of the city consisted of five military companies, of which Nicholas Bayard, a member of the governor's council, was colonel, and Leisler was senior captain.
The people were zealous Protestants.
A Roman Catholic collector appointed by King James had been retained in place, and a rumor spread of a horrible plot and intended massacre by the opponents of the deposed monarch.
A crowd of citizens
Pickens, Andrew 1739-
Military officer; born in Paxton, Bucks co., Pa., Sept. 19, 1739.
His parents, who were of Huguenot descent, went to South Carolina in 1752.
Andrew Pickens. Andrew served in the Cherokee War in 1761, and at the beginning of the Revolutionary War was made a captain of militia and soon rose to the rank of brigadier-general.
He, with Marion and Sumter, by their zeal and boldness, kept alive the spirit of resistance in the South when Cornwallis overran South Carolina.
He performed excellent service in the field during the war, and for his conduct at the battle of the Cowpens Congress voted him a sword.
He led the Carolina militia in the battle of Eutaw Springs, and, in 1782, a successful expedition against the Cherokees.
From the close of the war till 1793 he was in the South Carolina legislature, and was in Congress from 1793 to 1795.
In the latter year he was made major-general of militia, and was in the legislature from 1801 to 1812.
A treaty made b
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vallandigham , Clement Laird 1820 - (search)
Vallandigham, Clement Laird 1820-
Legislator; born in New Lisbon, O., July 29, 1820; was of Huguenot descent; studied at Jefferson College, Ohio; was principal of an academy at Snow Hill, Md.; and was admitted to the bar in 1842.
In 1845-46 he was a member of the State legislature, and for ten years afterwards edited the Dayton Empire.
An earnest Democratic politician, he was sent to Congress in 1857, in which body he was active until 1863, opposing all war measures of the government, and openly showing sympathy with the Confederates.
His utterances proclaiming him to be an enemy of his country, he was arrested at his own house, near Dayton, May 4, 1863, under a military order, on a charge of treasonable conduct.
He was tried by a courtmartial at Cincinnati, convicted, and sentenced to close confinement in a fortress for the remainder of the war. This sentence was modified by President Lincoln, who directed him to be sent within the Confederate lines, and, in the event of his
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 278 (search)