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Congress, colonial
Soon after the attack on Schenectady (1690), the government of Massachusetts addressed a circular letter to all the colonies as far south as Maryland, inviting them to send commissioners to New York, to agree upon some plan of operations for the defence of the whole.
Delegates from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York met in the city of New York in May, 1690, and the campaign against Canada was planned.
This was the first Colonial Congress.
Connecticut
One of the original thirteen English-American colonies, was probably first discove associates.
This was the original grant of Connecticut, and the territory was defined as extending ispute concerning the boundary-line between Connecticut and Rhode Island lasted more than sixty yea still preserved in the State Department of Connecticut.
It was of so general a character, and conferred such large powers, that when Connecticut became an independent State it was considered a goo arters.
For the purpose of seizing that of Connecticut, whose General Assembly had refused to surr hiding-place, and under it the colonists of Connecticut flourished for 129 years afterwards.
Und the charter given by Charles II., in 1662, Connecticut, like Rhode Island,
State seal of Connect
William Leete1661 to 1665
Governors of Connecticut
Name.Date
John Winthrop1665 to 1676
Will mas H. Seymour1850 to 1853
Governors of Connecticut—Continued.
Name.Date.
Charles H. Pond 185
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connecticut tract , the (search)
Connecticut tract, the
Grants by the English crown to New York and Massachusetts overlapped.
In 1786 a convention of commissioners from the two colonies was held at Hartford, Conn.; Massachusetts ceded to the State of New York all that territory lying west of the present eastern boundary of New York, and New York ceded to Massachusetts a tract of territory running from the northern boundary of Pennsylvania due north through Seneca Lake to Lake Ontario, with the exception of a strip of ly running from the northern boundary of Pennsylvania due north through Seneca Lake to Lake Ontario, with the exception of a strip of land one mile wide on Niagara River—about 6,000,000 acres in all. Of this M. Gorham and O. Phelps bought the title of the Indians, and also the title of Massachusetts to 2,600,000 acres. Robert Morris purchased most of the remainder and sold a part of it to Sir William Pultney.
He sold another large portion to the Holland Company and to the State of Connecticut
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Constitution of the United States (search)
Copper.
There are evidences that copper-mines were worked in the United States by the Mound-builders (q. v.). The first mines worked systematically were chiefly in New Jersey and Connecticut.
From 1709 until the middle of the eighteenth century, a mine at Simsbury, Conn., yielded much ore, when, for about sixty years, the mine was a State prison.
The Lake Superior copper-mines (the most considerable in the world) were first worked, in modern times, in 1845, when traces of ancient mining were found near the Ontonagon River.
The Jesuit missionaries had noticed copper ore in that region as early as the middle of the seventeenth century.
In making excavations in 1848, a mass of copper, supported upon blocks of wood, with charred wood under it, was found 20 feet below the surface.
When taken out it weighed 8 tons.
The output of copper in the United States during the calendar year 1899 amounted to 585,342,124 pounds, valued at $104,190,898. In that and the following year the outp
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Couch , Darius Nash 1822 -1897 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Croffut , William Augustus 1835 - (search)
Croffut, William Augustus 1835-
Author; born in Redding, Conn., Jan. 29, 1835; enlisted in the National army in 1861; served throughout the war. Among his publications are a War history of Connecticut.
He was also author of the opening ode for the World's Columbian Exposition.