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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
becoming financially embarrassed, assigns his contract to William Penn and others......Feb. 10, 1674 Philip Carteret returns and resumes authority in New Jersey, meeting the General Assembly at Bergen......Nov. 6, 1674 Fenwick, sailing from London in the ship Griffith, arrives with a small company of Quakers and settles at Salem......June, 1675 Concessions and agreements of the proprietors of the Fenwick and Byllinge purchase in New Jersey issued; Fenwick to have one-tenth interest, aovince established at Woodbridge......1683 Site of Camden occupied by Messrs. Cooper, Runyon, and Morris......1684 First Episcopal church in New Jersey, St. Peter's, founded at Perth Amboy......1685 Byllinge dies, and Dr. Samuel Coxe, of London, purchases his interest in west Jersey......1687 First Baptist church in east Jersey built at Middletown......1688 Governor Barclay dies......Oct. 3, 1690 Presbyterian churches established in Freehold and Woodbridge......1692 First sc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
rnor Andros allowed to return to England to look after his own interests ......Nov. 17, 1677 New York, as described in London by Governor Andros, contains twenty-four towns, villages, or parishes, in six precincts or courts of sessions; servants ak. In New York there are no beggars, but all the poor are cared for......1678 Governor Andros knighted by the King in London......1678 Sir Edmund Andros lands in New York after a nine weeks voyage......Aug. 8, 1678 Jacob Leisler, with othested and ultimately sent to England, where he is tried, convicted, and hanged, with nine accomplices, at Execution Dock, London......May 24, 1701 William III. of England dies......March 8, 1702 Queen Anne succeeds......702 Lieut.-Gov. Johnial panic spreads throughout the United States......Aug. 24, 1856 First telegraphic despatch received in New York from London by the Atlantic telegraph......Aug. 5, 1858 Edwin D. Morgan, Republican, elected governor......1858 M. Blondin (Émi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
from the spring of 1753, but war was not declared until......May 18, 1756 Indian village at Kittanning, on the Alleghany, 45 miles to the north of Pittsburg, headquarters of the Delaware Indians, is surprised and destroyed by Col John Armstrong with 300 Pennsylvanians......Sept. 7, 1756 Franklin sent to England in support of the Assembly's petition against the proprietaries Thomas and Richard Penn, who oppose taxing their vast estate, and controlled the deputy governor. He arrives in London......July 27, 1757 [Succeeds in securing the assessment of taxes on the surveyed lands at the usual rate to others.] Gen. John Forbes begins the advance against Fort Duquesne with some 7,000 troops......July, 1758 [Pennsylvania furnished 2,700 under Col. John Armstrong, among them Benjamin West, afterwards the painter, and Anthony Wayne, a lad of thirteen years; Virginia 1,900, with Washington as leader The Virginia troops rendezvous at Fort Cumberland, Md., and the Pennsylvania and ot
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
uding the forty-nine members of the constitutional Assembly, meet and approve proceedings of Continental Congress......Jan. 11, 1775 Letters from England to public officials in America intercepted at Charleston furnish abundant evidence of the determination of England to coerce America by force......April 19, 1775 On receiving news of the battle of Lexington, the arms are removed from the arsenal at Charleston and distributed among the enlisted men......April, 1775 Ship Betsey, from London, surprised by a Carolina privateer, and 111 barrels of powder captured.......August, 1775 Fort Johnson garrisoned by Captain Heyward and the Charleston artillery......September, 1775 Governor Campbell, last royal governor, dissolves the Assembly and retires to the sloop-of-war Tamar......Sept. 15, 1775 Hostilities in South Carolina begun by the British vessels Tamar and Cherokee making a night attack on the schooner Defence, Captain Tufts, while blocking Hog Island channel by sinkin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Usher, John 1648- (search)
Usher, John 1648- Colonial executive; born in Boston, Mass., April 27, 1648; son of Hezekiah 1st; succeeded his father in business; was colonel of militia; treasurer of Massachusetts; agent in London for the Massachusetts colony for the purchase from Sir Ferdinando Gorges of the title for the district of Maine; and lieutenant-governor of New Hampshire in 1692-97, and from 1702 till his death, in Medford, Mass., Sept. 1, 1726.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vale, Gilbert 1788-1866 (search)
Vale, Gilbert 1788-1866 Author; born in London, England, in 1788; received a classical education; came to the United States in 1829; engaged in literary work in New York and Brooklyn; editor of the Citizen and of the World for several years, and later of the Beacon, a scientific and literary journal; invented a combined celestial sphere and terrestrial globe as a model for instruction in astronomy. His publications include Fanaticism, its source and influence; and the Life of Thomas Paine. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1866.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vancouver, George 1758- (search)
land in April, 1791, and in the spring of 1792 crossed from the Sandwich Islands to the American coast, when Nootka was surrendered by the Spaniards, in accordance with previous arrangements. He did not find the soughtfor waters, and returned to London, late in 1795, with shattered health. His name was given to a large island on the western coast of North America. He devoted himself to the arrangement of his manuscripts for publication, and the narrative of his voyages, published in 3 volumes to the American coast, when Nootka was surrendered by the Spaniards, in accordance with previous arrangements. He did not find the soughtfor waters, and returned to London, late in 1795, with shattered health. His name was given to a large island on the western coast of North America. He devoted himself to the arrangement of his manuscripts for publication, and the narrative of his voyages, published in 3 volumes after his death, was edited by his brother. He died near London, May 10, 1798.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vaughan, William 1703- (search)
Vaughan, William 1703- Military officer; born in Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 12, 1703; graduated at Harvard University in 1722; became interested in the Newfoundland fisheries and settled in Damariscotta; was lieutenant-colonel of militia in the Louisburg expedition in 1745; and, feeling slighted in the distribution of awards, he went to London, England, to present his claims, where he died, Dec. 11, 1746.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vaux, Calvert 1824-1895 (search)
Vaux, Calvert 1824-1895 Landscape architect; born in London, England, Dec. 20, 1824; came to the United States in 1848 with Andrew J. Downing, of whom he became a partner. They were associated in laying out the grounds that surrounded the Capitol and Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Later he was associated with Frederick Law Olmsted, and they presented the designs for laying out Central Park, New York City, and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y., that were accepted. He designed many parks in Chicago and Buffalo, the State reservation at Niagara Falls, the plans for Riverside and Morningside parks, New York City, and parks in other cities. Mr. Vaux was landscape architect of the Department of Public Parks of New York City, member of the Consolidated Commission of Greater New York, and landscape architect of the State reservation at Niagara. He died in Bensonhurst, L. I., Nov. 19, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vetch, Samuel 1668-1732 (search)
onia at Darien, Isthmus of Panama, in 1698, but soon after left the colony and went to Albany, N. Y., where he engaged in trade with the Indians. He was a commissioner from Massachusetts to Quebec in 1705 to negotiate a treaty between New England and Canada, but in this he failed. In 1708 he went to England at the instance of the New York colony, and represented to Queen Anne the desirability of seizing Canada. The Queen was favorably impressed with the suggestion, and through Vetch ordered the governors of the several colonies to do all they could to aid the project. The enterprise, however, was abandoned, as the squadron promised in England did not appear. Later Vetch persuaded the citizens of Boston to equip an expedition against Port Royal, Nova Scotia. This force, under the command of Vetch and Sir Francis Nicholson, captured Port Royal, Oct. 2, 1710, and the former remained there several years as governor. In 1719 he returned to England. He died in London, April 30, 1732.
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