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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
tory of my native State which pertains to the colonists who settled it and the causes contributing to the character of its people, in order that I might demonstrate the proposition with which I began, that the stock from which one comes is very material. For if the proposition be not true, then, in a republican government, the question of whom begotten or by whom begot? is, and ought to be, of no consequence to any individual, or to his peers. My paternal grandfather was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, of Irish descent, and of a most strictly Irish Presbyterian family, as his own name Zephaniah, and his uncles', Levi and Malachi, most plainly show. The branches of the family were numerous, and the names of those who were of the proper generation to take part in the War of the Revolution, will be found in the local history of that contest wherever Connecticut men took part, whether in Pennsylvania or Wyoming, or in the western reserve of Ohio. Zephaniah went to Quebec with Wolf
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Baker, remember, (search)
Baker, remember, A captain of Green Mountain boys (q. v.); born in Woodbury, Conn., about 1740. He went to the New Hampshire Grants in 1764, before the Allens took up their abode there. He was a soldier in the French and Indian War, and was in the fierce battle at Ticonderoga in 1758. He settled at Arlington, on the Grants, and was very active with Ethan Allen in resisting the claims of New York to Vermont territory. Baker was arrested, and was cruelly treated while a prisoner, by the New-Yorkers. The government of that province had outlawed him and set a price upon his head. Captain Baker was with Allen when he took Ticonderoga, in May, 1775. He was killed, while on a scout in the Continental service, by the Indians on the Sorel, the outlet of Lake Champlain, in August, 1775.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hollister, Gideon Hiram 1817-1881 (search)
Hollister, Gideon Hiram 1817-1881 Author; born in Washington, Conn., Dec. 14, 1817; graduated at Yale College in 1840, studied law and practised in Litchfield, Stratford, Bridgeport, and Woodbury, Conn. He was clerk of courts in Litchfield in 1843-52; elected State Senator in 1856; and was appointed consul-general and United States minister to Haiti by President Johnson in 1868. In 1880 he was elected to the legislature, and there delivered a speech on the New York boundary question. He was author of Andersonville (a poem); Mount hope, a historical romance of King Philip's War; and History of Connecticut. He died in Litchfield, Conn., March 24, 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sanford, Henry Shelton 1823-1891 (search)
Sanford, Henry Shelton 1823-1891 Diplomatist; born in Woodbury, Conn., June 15, 1823; studied in Washington College, and later in Heidelberg University; entered the United States diplomatic service in 1847; was secretary of the United States legation in Paris in 1849-54; and minister to Belgium in 1861-69, where he negotiated the Scheldt treaty of commerce and navigation. He founded the city of Sanford, Fla., in 1870; was United States commissioner on the Congo River Colony in 1883; and was a delegate to the international Congo conference in 1885, and to the anti-slavery conference at Brussels in 1889. He died in Healing Springs, Va., May 21, 1891.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 146 (search)
ester.69,000 Rockland, Me.10,000 Salem, Mass.15,000 Stowe, Mass.2,000 Schenectady, N. Y.2,000 Seneca Falls, N. Y.3,000 Stockbridge, Mass.3,000 Sycamore, Ill.4,000 St. Albans, Vt.10,000 Sag Harbor, N. Y.3,000 Sar. Springs, N. Y.2,000 Southboroa, Mass.2,000 Syracuse, N. Y.34,000 Salisbury, Mass.5,000 Shelburne, Vt.1,000 Schuylkill County, Pa.30,000 Sutton, Mass.6,000 Troy, N. Y.48,000 Toledo, Ohio.5,000 Taunton, Mass.40,000 Utica, N . Y.20,000 Upper Sandusky, Ohio.5,000 Vermont, State.1,000,000 Wisconsin, State.225,000 Weymouth, Mass.5,000 Wilmington, Ohio.3,000 Waynesville, Ohio.2,000 Waltham, Mass.5,000 West Cambridge Mass.10,000 Woodstock, Vt.1,000 Watertown, N. Y.3,000 Warsaw, N. Y.3,000 Watertown, Mass.2,000 Waterford, N. Y.8,000 Westboroa, Mass.8,000 West Troy, N. Y.7,000 Woburn, Mass.5,000 Warsaw, N. Y.3,000 Woodbury, Ct.5,000 Webster, Mass.4.000 Xenia, Ohio.14,000 Zanesville, Ohio.3,000   Total$23,277,000 --N. Y. Tribune, May 8.