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Bryce, James, 1838-
Historian; born in Belfast, Ireland. May 10, 1838; was graduated at Oxford University in 1862; practised law in London till 1882; and was Professor of Civil Law in Oxford in 1870-93.
He was first elected to the British Parliament as a Liberal in 1880.
He has distinguished himself alike in politics and historical literature, and is best known in the United States for his work on The American commonwealth.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burgoyne , Sir John , 1723 -1792 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bute , John Stuart , Earl of , (search)
Byrd, William, 1674-
Colonial official; born in Westover, Va., March 16, 1674.
Inheriting a large fortune, and acquiring a good education, he became a leader in the promotion of science and literature in Virginia.
and was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London.
Long receiver-general of the revenue in Virginia, he was also three times made agent of that colony in England, and was for thirty-seven years a member, and finally president, of the King's council of the colony.
He was one of the commissioners, in 1728, for running the boundary-line between Virginia and North Carolina.
He made notes of his operations and the incidents thereof, which form a part of the Westover manuscripts, published by Edmund Ruffin in 1841.
In 1733 he laid out the cities of Richmond and Petersburg, Va. He died Aug. 26, 1744.
Calef, Robert
Author; place and date of birth uncertain; became a merchant in Boston; and is noted for his controversy with Cotton Mather concerning the witchcraft delusion in New England.
Mather had published a work entitled Wonders of the invisible world, and Calef attacked the book, the author, and the subject in a publication entitled More wonders of the invisible world.
Calef's book was published in London in 1700, and in Salem the same year.
About this time the people and magistrates had come to their senses, persecutions had ceased, and the folly of the belief in witchcraft was broadly apparent.
Mather, however, continued to write in favor of it, and to give instances of the doings of witches in their midst.
Flashy people, wrote Mather, may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people, in a country where they have as much mother-wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism [disb
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Campbell , Sir Archibald 1739 -1791 (search)
Campbell, Sir Archibald 1739-1791
Military officer; born in Inverary, Scotland, in 1739; entered the British army in 1758; became a lieutenant-colonel in 1775; with a part of his command was captured in Boston Harbor early in the Revolutionary War, and was cruelly treated in retaliation for treatment of American officers captured by the British.
On Dec. 29, 1778, he captured Savannah, Ga., and gave orders to his officers to show leniency to the people.
On Jan. 29, 1779, he took Augusta, but on Feb. 13, he was forced to evacuate that city.
He died in London, England, March 31, 1791.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carroll , Charles , of Carrollton 1737 -1832 (search)
Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton 1737-1832
signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Annapolis, Md., Sept. 20, 1737.
His family were wealthy Roman Catholics,
Charles Carroll. the first appearing in America at the close of the seventeenth century.
He was educated at St. Omer's and at a Jesuit college at Rheims; and studied law in France and at the Temple, London.
He returned to America in 1764, when he found the colonies agitated by momentous political questions, into which he soon entered— a writer on the side of the liberties of the people.
He inherited a vast estate, and was considered one of the richest men in the colonies.
Mr. Carroll was a member of one of the first vigilance committees established at Annapolis, and a member of the Provincial Convention.
Early in 1776 he was one of a committee appointed by Congress to visit Canada to persuade the Canadians to join the other colonies in resistance to the measures of Parliament.
His colleagues were Dr. Frank