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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 2 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 2 0 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
eadland, which, from the quantity of codfish caught in the vicinity, is called Cape Cod; the voyagers land; this is the first spot upon which the first known English r......1609 Capt. John Smith explores the coast from the Penobscot River to Cape Cod, and names the country New England......1614 Capt. John Smith publishes hispt. 6, 1620 After a stormy passage of sixty-three days sights the cliffs of Cape Cod and comes to anchor in Cape Cod Harbor......Nov. 9, 1620 Peregrine White bost white child born in New England......November, 1620 Mayflower sails from Cape Cod Dec. 15, and anchors at Plymouth......Dec. 16, 1620 First death at Plymouthch adjourns......April 30, 1879 French ocean cable landed at North Eastham, Cape Cod.......Nov. 15, 1879 Cape Cod ship-canal from Buzzard's Bay to Barnstable BaCape Cod ship-canal from Buzzard's Bay to Barnstable Bay begun......1880 Anti-screen liquor-saloon law, enacted 1880, goes into effect......1881 National law-and-order league organized at Boston......Feb. 22, 1882
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wampanoag, or Pokanoket, (search)
Wampanoag, or Pokanoket, Indians; one of the most powerful of the Massachusetts tribes of the Algonquian nation. Massasoit was their sachem when the English came to the New England shores. Their domain extended over nearly the whole of southern Massachusetts, from Cape Cod to Narraganset Bay, and at one time the tribe numbered 30,000. Just before the landing of the Pilgrims a terrible disease had reduced them to less than 1,000. While Massasoit lived the Wampanoags were friendly to the English; but a growing discontent ripened into war in 1675, led by King Philip, a son of Massasoit, which involved many of the New England Indians. The result was the destruction of the tribe. King Philip's son, while yet a boy, with others, was sent to the West Indies and sold as a slave.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wampum, (search)
from certain parts of sea-shells. The shores of Long Island Sound abounded in these shells, and the Pequods and Narragansets grew rich and potent by their abundance of wampum, which was much in demand, first for ornament, and afterwards as currency among the inte rior tribes. The settlers at Plymouth first learned the use and value of wampum from the Dutch at Manhattan, and found it profitable in trade with the Eastern Indians; for the shells of which it was made were not common north of Cape Cod. It soon became a circulating medium, first in the Indian traffic, and then among the colonists generally. Three of the black beads, or six of the white, passed for a penny. They were strung in known parcels for convenience of reckoning—a penny, threepence, a shilling, and five shillings in white; twopence, sixpence, two-and-sixpence, and ten shillings in black. A fathom of white wampum was worth ten shillings, or two dollars and a half; a fathom of black, twice as much. Wampum was als
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
N. Y.; twenty-five lives lost......July 10, 1887 American ship Alfred D. Snow stranded off coast of Ireland; thirty lives lost......Jan. 4, 1888 Steamer Vizcaya, from New York to Havana, run into by schooner Cornelius Hargraves near Barnegat light, N. J.; both vessels sink within seven minutes; about seventy lives lost......Oct. 29, 1890 Ward line steamer City of Alexandria, from Havana to New York, burned at sea; thirty lives lost......Nov. 2, 1893 Steamer Jason wrecked off Cape Cod, Mass.; twenty lives lost......Dec. 6, 1893 United States corvette Kearsarge wrecked on Roncardo reef, about 200 miles northeast from Bluefield, Nicaragua......Feb. 2, 1894 United States battle-ship Maine blown up in Havana Harbor, Cuba......Feb. 15, 1898 United States torpedo-boat Winslow disabled by shore batteries off Cardenas, Cuba; rescued by other vessels......May 11, 1898 United States blockading fleet destroys Spanish fleet off Santiago, Cuba......July 3, 1898 Spanish b
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