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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anti-rent party. (search)
Anti-rent party. The greater part of Columbia, Rensselaer, Greene, Delaware, and Albany counties in the State of New York belonged to manors, the grants of which had been made to patroons by the Dutch West India Company, and renewed by James H., the principal ones being Rensselaerswyck and Livingston Manor. The tenants had deeds for their farms, but paid an annual rental instead of a principal sum. Dissatisfaction with this state of affairs had begun to show itself as early as 1790, and when, in 1839, Stephen Van Rensselaer, who had allowed much of his rent to remain in arrears, died, the tenants refused to pay rents to his successor, disguised themselves as Injuns, and for ten years carried on a reign of terror that practically suspended the operation of law and the payment of rent in the entire district. The attempt to serve process by military aid, the so-called Helderberg War, was unsuccessful. In 1847 and 1849 the anti-renters showed a voting strength of 5,000, adopting a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee, Ann 1736-1784 (search)
came to America with some followers in 1774, and in 1776 they established themselves at Niskayuna, near Watervliet, where she was the recognized leader of the sect. Being opposed to war, she was suspected of being a British emissary, and, being charged with high treason, was imprisoned at Albany and Poughkeepsie until released by Governor Clinton in 1777, when she returned to Watervliet, and there her followers greatly increased. During a religious revival in New Lebanon (since in Columbia county, N. Y.) in 1780 many persons were converted to the doctrines of Ann Lee, and the now flourishing Society of Shakers of New Lebanon was founded. She and some of her followers made missionary tours into New England with considerable success from 1781 to 1783, and so greatly were her spiritual gifts manifested that she was acknowledged a mother in Christ —the incarnation of the feminine essence of God. She was called Mother Ann and Ann the word. She died in Watervliet, N. Y., Sept. 8, 178
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Livingston, Robert 1634-1725 (search)
w York and Massachusetts. The area widened as it extended eastward, so that, on its eastern boundary, the tract was nearly 20 miles in width. In 1686 Thomas Dongan, governor of New York, granted Livingston a patent for this domain, which comprised over 120,000 acres. It was the largest landed estate in the province, excepting that of Van Rensselaer. Five or six thousand acres of it were purchased for the use of the palatines who came over with Governor Hunter in 1700, which tract still bears the name of Germantown, given to it at that time. In 1715 the grant of the Livingston Manor, given by Dongan, was confirmed by royal authority, and full manorial privileges were given to the proprietor. The lord of the manor exercised moderate judicial functions within his domain, and had the privilege of electing a representative to the General Assembly of the colony and two constables. This manor occupied a portion of Columbia and Dutchess counties. Robert died in Albany, April 20, 1725.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, William Henry 1833-1896 (search)
Smith, William Henry 1833-1896 Historian; a native of Indiana; educated in the common schools of the State and at the Indianapolis Academy; learned the printing trade, and was a reporter on an Indiana paper, and for some years the literary editor of the Cincinnati commercial gazette. Among his publications are History of Indiana (2 volumes, 8vo, 1898), Reminiscences of American history; A history of Indiana during the Civil War, etc. Journalist; born in Columbia county, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1833; educated in Ohio; became editor of a Cincinnati weekly paper in 1855; was active in recruiting troops and forwarding sanitary supplies during the Civil War; secretary of State of Ohio in 1864-68. He then founded the Cincinnati Evening chronicle. Later he managed the affairs of the Western Associated Press, with headquarters in Chicago. In 1883 he succeeded in uniting the Western Associated Press with the New York Associated Press, and became manager of the consolidated association.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Rensselaer, Killian 1595-1674 (search)
Van Rensselaer, Killian 1595-1674 Colonist; born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1595; received a good education; acquired wealth as a diamond and pearl merchant in Amsterdam; and was prominent in the establishment of the West India Company. Later, through an agent, he bought a large tract of land from the Indians in New Netherland, on the Hudson River, comprising the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, and Columbia. The tract, which was named Rensselaerswick, was colonized with immigrants from Holland. Van Rensselaer never visited the colony, but directed its affairs through a sheriff. To protect the colonists from the Indians, he ordered that they should all live near each other, except the tobaccoplanters and farmers. After his death, in 1644, the West India Company became jealous of the success of the colony, and Governor Stuyvesant, with a military escort, visited it in 1648, and gave orders that no buildings should be constructed within a certain distance of Fort Orange
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
b 63; 8 Jly 65 Boston. Captd 18 Jly 63 Ft Wagner; ex. 4 Mch 65 Goldsboro, N. C. $50. Henson, John 20, sin.; laborer; Coatesville, Pa. 21 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Hicks, Henry J. 23, mar.; shoemaker; Cambridge. 9 July 63; 20 Aug 65. ——. Maplewood. Jackson, Charles, Corpl. 23, sin.; farmer; Ghent, N. Y. 9 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Jackson, Francis J. 18, sin.; laborer; Gt Barrington. 24 Mch 63; died 10 Apl 64 Gt Barrington. Phthisic. $50. Jackson, James L. 18, sin.; laborer; Columbia, N. Y. 19 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Jackson, John H. 22, sin.; laborer; Troy, N. Y. 24 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Jackson, Levi H. 20, sin.; waiter; Gt. Barrington. 18 Mch 63; died of wounds 12 May 65 Post Hos. Charleston, S. C. Wounded 16 Apl 65 near Camden, S. C. $50. Jackson, Mathias 18, sin.; laborer; Dutchess Co., N. Y. 19 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. San Pueblo, Colo. Jackson, Samuel 20, sin.; hostler; Hudson, N. Y. 14 Feb 63; 30 Je 64 Black Id. S. C.; dis. $50. Jefferson, Benjamin
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
eedham, Wakefield, Malden, Arlington, Belmont, Walpole, Lexington, Gloucester, Marlboro, Weymouth, North Adams, Maynard, Mansfield, Randolph, Foxboro, Cohasset, Lenox, Chelsea, Brockton, Franklin, Provincetown, Canton, Stoughton, Braintree, and Wellesley. These engines are also in use in foreign water-works, as for instance at St. Petersburg, Honolulu, and Sydney. The new United States Navy is practically fitted out with Blake pumps, a partial list including the following vessels: Columbia, New York, Iowa, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Newark, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Massachusetts, Indiana, Maine, Puritan, Miantonomoh, Monadnock, Terror, Amphitrite, Katahdin, Detroit, Montgomery, Marblehead, Yorktown, Dolphin, Machias, Castine, Petrel, Vesuvius, and many others. Briefly, the thousands of patterns cover pumps for handling any fluid or semi-fluid or liquor, whether acid or alkali, under all conditions, from the lightest pressure up to twenty-five thousand pounds per square inch; and
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ars in the high offices of the government. He is, indeed, the patriarch of our statesmen, so far as length of official service is concerned. Martin Van Buren, while he has not been in office as long as some of our statesmen, is the only one who has filled the four highest, most dignified and powerful positions under the American Constitution. He has been Minister to England, Secretary of State, President and Vice President. His public life commenced in 1808, as Surrogate of Columbia county, New York, which he left for the State Senate, and then as Attorney General of the State, United States Senator, Governor, Minister to England, Secretary of State, Vice President and President. He was constantly before the people as an important personage down to his retirement from the Presidency in 1841, a period of thirty-three years. Perhaps we ought not to say that his public career then closed, for he was a prominent candidate for President before the Baltimore Convention in 1844,
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
inet, a cultivated demagogue, and nothing more. In many respects he resembles Martin Van Buren, of his own State, having the same unscrupulous cunning, the same scheming, wire-working, partisan character; the same supple conscience; the same narrowness of aim, and the same cold, imperturbable temperament.--Each of these men began his political career and continued it by pandering to the base passions of the ignorant and degraded; Martin Van Buren fomenting the anti-rent disturbances in Columbia county, and Seward bestriding the hobby of anti-Masonry. Abolitionism has also been used by both men simply and exclusively as a political instrument. It is a well known fact that Wm. H. Seward, when in the Senate of the United States, after a speech most earnest and pointed in its denunciation of Southern institutions, has been asked whether he really entertained such sentiments as those announced in his speech, and that he replied, with a laugh, "No; I only used them for party effect." Can