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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sullivan, John 1740-1795 (search)
Sullivan, John 1740-1795 Military officer; born in Berwick, Me., Feb. 17, 1740; was a lawyer, an earnest patriot, and a member of the first Continental Congress. In December, 1774, he, with John Langdon, led a force against Fort William and Mary, near Portsmouth, and took from it 100 barrels of gunpowder, fifteen John Sullivan. cannon, small-arms, and stores. In June, 1775, he was appointed one of the brigadier-generals of the Continental army, and commanded on Winter Hill in the siege of Boston. After the evacuation in March, 1776, he was sent with troops to reinforce the army in Canada, of which he took command on the death of General Thomas, June 2, 1776, and soon General Sullivan's home. afterwards exhibited great skill in effecting a retreat from that province. On the arrival of Gates to succeed Sullivan, the latter joined the army under Washington at New York, and at the battle of Long Island, in August, he was made prisoner. He was soon exchanged for General Pres
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thornton, James Shepard 1826-1875 (search)
Thornton, James Shepard 1826-1875 Naval officer; born in Merrimac, N. H., Feb. 25, 1826; entered the navy as midshipman in 1841; served in the sloop John Adams during the Mexican War; became a passed midshipman in 1846; and resigned from the navy in 1850. He was reinstated in 1854; promoted master in 1855; and lieutenant in 1855; served during the Civil War in the brig Bainbridge; was executive officer of the flag-ship Hartford; promoted lieutenant-commander in 1862; had charge of the gunboat Winona in the engagements at Mobile; executive officer of the Kearsarge in the fight with the Alabama off Cherbourg, and for his gallantry in this action was given a vote of thanks and advanced thirty numbers in his rank. He served in the navy-yard at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1866-67; promoted commander in 1866; and captain in 1872. He died in Germantown, Pa., May 14, 1875.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Toleration acts. (search)
Toleration acts. At a General Court of Elections, held at Portsmouth, beginning May 19, 1647, for the colonie and province of Providence, after adopting many acts and orders concerning the government and for the punishment of crimes, it was decreed that These are the laws that concern all men, and these are the penalties for the transgression thereof, which by common consent are ratified and established throughout the whole colony; and otherwise than thus, what is herein forbidden, all men may walk as their consciences persuade them, every one in the name of his God. This act of toleration was so broad and absolute that it would include Christian, Jew, Mohammedan, Parsee, Buddhist, or pagan. The General Assembly of Maryland, convened at St. Mary's, April 2, 1649, after enacting severe punishments for the crime of blasphemy, and declaring that certain penalties should be inflicted upon any one who should call another a sectarian name of reproach, adopted the declaration that
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
convention enrolls the militia and votes £10,000 to purchase arms......Dec. 8-12, 1774 New Hampshire freemen seize 100 barrels of powder and some ordnance at Portsmouth......Dec. 11, 1774 Benjamin Franklin returns from England......April, 1775 Delegates from Georgia to Congress by letter express loyalty, and explain inabid session adjourns......July 15, 1870 First through car from the Pacific reaches New York......July 24, 1870 Adm. David C. Farragut, born 1801, dies at Portsmouth, N. H.......Aug. 14, 1870 National Labor Congress meets in Cincinnati......Aug. 15, 1870 President proclaims neutrality in the Franco-Prussian War......Aug. 2 National Labor party at Chicago adopts the Democratic nominees for President and Vice-President......July 30, 1884 Lieutenant Greely and his men reach Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 2, and are publicly welcomed......Aug. 4, 1884 Corner-stone of pedestal of the statue of Liberty enlightening the world laid on Bedloe's Island, Ne
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
, sends over his son William as governor of the territory between Piscataqua and Sagadahoc, called New Somerstshire, who organizes the first grges obtains from Charles I. a provincial charter to land between Piscataqua and Sagadahoc and Kennebec rivers, extending 120 miles north and ......Oct. 23, 1652 Isle of Shoals, and all territory north of Piscataqua belonging to Massachusetts, erected into county of Yorkshire..... Quakers hold their first meeting in Maine, at Newichawannock, or Piscataqua......December, 1662 Ferdinando Gorges, grandson of the originan depredations, war is declared on all the Indian tribes east of Piscataqua, and bounties offered for prisoners and scalps......June 11, 1755stored; being released on parole, Mowatt weighs anchor, sails for Portsmouth......May 9, 1775 An English schooner, the Margranetto, loading hundred troops raised to protect the Eastern Department, between Piscataqua and St. Croix, and command given to Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, with he
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Hampshire, (search)
sts, Mason procures for himself a charter of Portsmouth......1631 Towns of Portsmouth and Northamire a distinct province, with John Cutts, of Portsmouth, president......Sept. 8, 1679 Royal commiEngland, New Hampshire Gazette, published at Portsmouth......August, 1756 On application of New Y a cargo of tea consigned to a Mr. Parry, of Portsmouth, is reshipped to Halifax, Jan. 25, 1774. A ifax......Sept. 8, 1774 Town committee of Portsmouth, hearing of the order by King in council pro Island, and bring eight pieces of cannon to Portsmouth......May 26, 1775 Convention of the peoplington, on a tour of observation, arrives at Portsmouth......Oct. 30, 1789 Portsmouth Journal est Bridge constructed over the Piscataqua near Portsmouth, from Newington to Durham, nearly half a milPiscataqua Evangelical magazine published at Portsmouth......1805 Law passed dividing towns into , on his tour of the Northern States, visits Portsmouth, Dover, Concord, and Hanover......1817 St[12 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
ck Island settled by eighteen proprietors at Portsmouth, now New Town, first called Pocasset......16ng or militia muster in Rhode Island held at Portsmouth......Nov. 12, 1638 Aquedneck purchased frers, to planters of the towns of Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport, for incorporation of Providencd......1646 Committees from Providence, Portsmouth, Newport, and Warwick at Portsmouth, adopt tPortsmouth, adopt the charter of 1643, choose John Coggeshall president of the colony, and give a tax of £ 100 to Rogertheir charter, and Dr. John Clarke, agent of Portsmouth and Newport, to obtain a repeal of Coddingto..Feb. 18, 1653 Assembly of island towns, Portsmouth and Newport, restore code of 1647, and electy 17-18, 1653 Providence and Warwick with Portsmouth and Newport in one General Assembly re-estabams dies, aged eighty-four, and is buried in Portsmouth......1683 Royal government established inon Lake Erie......1813 Friends' school at Portsmouth established in 1784, but discontinued after
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), State of Virginia, (search)
e end of June General Greene wrote: The Congress have lost their influence. I have for a long time seen the necessity of some new plan of civil government. Unless there is some control over the States by the Congress, we shall soon be like a broken band. The marauding expedition of Arnold up the James River, early in 1781, was followed by a more formidable invasion in the latter part of March. General Phillips, of Burgoyne's army, who had been exchanged for Lincoln, joined Arnold at Portsmouth, with 2,000 troops from New York, and took the chief command. They went up the James and Appomattox rivers, took Petersburg (April 25), and destroyed 4,000 hogsheads of tobacco, which had been collected there for Monticello. shipment to France on account of the Congress. There were virtually no troops in Virginia to oppose this invasion, for all that were really fit for service had been sent to the army of Greene, in the Carolinas. Steuben had about 500 halfstarved and naked troops, w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vogdes, Israel 1816-1889 (search)
Vogdes, Israel 1816-1889 Military officer; born in Willistown, Pa., Aug. 4, 1816; graduated at West Point in 1837, where he remained two years assistant Professor of Mathematics. He entered the artillery, and served in the Seminole War. In May, 1861, he was made major. He gallantly defended Fort Pickens (q. v.) from February to October, 1861, when he was made prisoner in the night attack on Santa Rosa Island. He was active in the operations on Folly and Morris islands against forts Wagner and Sumter, and commanded the defences of Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1864-65. In April, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general, United States army, and in 1881 was retired. He died in New York, Dec. 7, 1889.
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