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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coffin, Joshua 1792-1864 (search)
Coffin, Joshua 1792-1864 Antiquarian; born in Newbury, Mass., Oct. 12, 1792; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1817; an earnest abolitionist; helped to establish the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832; published The history of ancient Newbury. He died in Newbury, Mass., June 24, 1864. Coffin, Joshua 1792-1864 Antiquarian; born in Newbury, Mass., Oct. 12, 1792; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1817; an earnest abolitionist; helped to establish the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832; published The history of ancient Newbury. He died in Newbury, Mass., June 24, 1864. Coffin, Joshua 1792-1864 Antiquarian; born in Newbury, Mass., Oct. 12, 1792; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1817; an earnest abolitionist; helped to establish the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832; published The history of ancient Newbury. He died in Newbury, Mass., June 24, 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882 (search)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882 Poet; born in Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807; was a descendant of William Longfellow, of Newbury, Mass., and on his mother's side of John Alden, a passenger on the Mayflower; and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825. He studied law a short time, when he received the appointment of Professor of Modern Languages in his alma mater. To better fit himself for the duties, he spent three years and a half in Europe, and assumed his office in 1829. In 1835 he was chosen Professor of Belles-Lettres in Harvard, and again he made a pilgrimage to Europe to make himself familiar with Continental literature. For nearly twenty years he was a professor in Harvard College, retiring from that post in 1854, and pursued the task of literary composition in his fine old mansion at Cambridge, which Washington had used for his headquarters in 1775-76. He first wrote timidly for literary periodicals, and the first seven articles in a collection published in 1857 were
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
om the towns, before the meeting of the court, the first instance of caucus on record......May 6, 1635 Concord first settled......1635 Richard Dummer founds Newbury......1635 Roger Williams advocates the inviolable freedom of faith. He appears before the magistrates to defend it......April, 1635 Rev. John Avery drowned while on his way to Marblehead from Newbury......Aug. 14, 1635 Roger Williams is sentenced to depart out of the jurisdiction of the colony within six weeks, but owing to clamor of a stanch minority is permitted to remain until spring......October, 1635 John Winthrop, the younger, Hugh Peters, and Henry Vane arrive at Boston.on......April 14, 1668 Title of reverend first applied to the clergy of New England......1670 Two young married Quaker women walk naked through the towns of Newbury and Salem, in emulation of the prophet Ezekiel, as a sign of the nakedness of the land......1671 George Fox, founder and apostle of the Quakers, comes to Rhode
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807-1892 (search)
ld Buffum, and Nathan Winslow, men well known in the antislavery agitation, were conspicuous members. Vermont sent down from her mountains Orson S. Murray, a man terribly in earnest, with a zeal that bordered on fanaticism, and who was none the more genial for the mob-violence to which he had been subjected. In front of me, awakening pleasant associations of the old homestead in Merrimac valley, sat my first schoolteacher, Joshua Coffin, the learned and worthy antiquarian and historian of Newbury. A few spectators, mostly of the Hicksite division of Friends, were present, in broad brims and plain bonnets, among them Esther Moore and Lucretia Mott. Committees were chosen to draft a constitution for a national anti-slavery society, nominate a list of officers, and prepare a declaration of principles to be signed by the members. Dr. A. L. Cox, of New York, while these committees were absent, read something from my pen eulogistic of William Lloyd Garrison; and Lewis Tappan and Amos
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woodbridge. John 1614-1691 (search)
Woodbridge. John 1614-1691 Clergyman; born in Stanton, England, in 1614; emigrated to the Massachusetts colony in 1634; ordained minister of Andover, Oct. 24, 1645. Two years later he returned to England where he remained until 1663, when he again removed to Massachusetts. He died in Newbury, Mass.. July 1, 1691.