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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 16 | 8 | Browse | Search |
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arnold , Benedict , 1741 -1801 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Avery , Waightstill , 1745 -1821 (search)
Avery, Waightstill, 1745-1821
Lawyer; born in Groton, Conn.. May 3, 1745; studied law in Maryland.
and began its practice in Mecklenburg county, N. C., in 1769.
He was prominent there among the opposers of the obnoxious measures of the British Parliament bearing on the colonies, and was one of the promoters and signers of the famous Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
He was a delegate to the Provincial Congress at Hillsborough in 1775 which organized the military forces of the State: and in the summer of 1776 he joined the army, under General Rutherford, in the Cherokee country.
He was a commissioner in framing the treaty of Holston, which effected peace on the Western frontier.
Mr. Avery was active in civil affairs; and in 1779 was colonel of the county militia, serving with great zeal during the British invasion of North Carolina.
He removed to Burke county in 1781, which he represented in the State legislature many years.
He was the first State attorney-general of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deane , James , 1748 -1823 (search)
Deane, James, 1748-1823
Missionary to the Six Nations; born in Groton, Conn., Aug. 20, 1748; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1773.
From the age of twelve years he was with a missionary in the Oneida tribe of Indians, and mastered their language.
After his graduation he went as a missionary to the Caughnawagas and St. Francis tribes for two years; and when the Revolution broke out, Congress employed him to conciliate the tribes along the northern frontier.
He was made Indian agent and interpreter at Fort Stanwix with the rank of major.
He was many years a judge in Oneida county, and twice a member of the New York Assembly. Mr. Deane wrote an Indian mythology.
He died in Westmoreland, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1823.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deane , Silas , 1737 -1789 (search)
Deane, Silas, 1737-1789
Diplomatist; born in Groton, Conn., Dec. 24, 1737; graduated at Yale College in 1758; became a merchant in Wethersfield, Conn.; and was a delegate to the first Continental
Silas Deane. Congress.
He was very active in Congress, in 1775, in fitting out a naval force for the colonies, and in the spring of 1776 was sent to France as a secret political and financial agent, with authority to operate in Holland and elsewhere.
He was to ascertain the feeling of the French government towards the revolted colonies and Great Britain, and to obtain military supplies.
Mr. Deane went in the character of a Bermuda merchant; and, the better to cover his designs, he did not take any considerable sum of money or bills of exchange with him for his support.
The secret committee was to send them after him by way of London, to arrive in Paris nearly as soon as himself, lest a capture should betray his secret.
On his arrival in Paris he sought an interview with the Count
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall , Charles Francis 1821 - (search)
Ledyard, John 1751-
Explorer; born in Groton, Conn., in 1751; was educated at Dartmouth College for a missionary to the Indians, and spent several months among the Six Nations.
Having a resistless desire for travel, he shipped at New London as a common sailor, and from England accompanied Captain Cook in his last voyage around the world as corporal of marines.
He vainly tried to set on foot a trading expedition to the northwest coast of North America, and went to Europe in 1784.
He started on a journey through the northern part of Europe and Asia and across Bering Strait to America in 1786-87.
He walked around the whole coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, reaching St. Petersburg in the latter part of March, 1787, without money, shoes, or stockings.
He had journeyed 1,400 miles on foot in less than seven weeks. Thence he went to Siberia, but was arrested at Irkutsk in February, 1788, conducted to the frontiers of Poland, and there dismissed with an intimation that if he returned i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
Sassacus,
Indian chief; born near Groton, Conn., about 1560; chief of the Pequod Indians, feared greatly by the settlers of the New England coast.
In 1637 his tribe murdered several women at Wethersfield, and took two girls captive.
On June 5, 1637, the colonists attacked the Pequod settlement on the Mystic River and won a victory.
Sassacus, however, escaped to the Mohawks, by whom he was murdered the same month.
Seabury, Samuel 1729-
First Protestant bishop in the United States; born in Groton, Conn., Nov. 30, 1729; graduated at Yale College in 1748.
Going to Scotland to study medicine, his attention was turned to theology.
Although the son of a Congregational minister, he received ordination as a minister of the Church of England in London in 1743.
On his return he first settled as a minister in New Brunswick, N. J., then in Jamaica, L. I. (1756-66), and finally in Westchester county, N. Y., where he remained until the beginning of the Revolutionary War. He was a loyalist, and at one time was chaplain of the King's American Regiment.
Becoming obnoxious to the patriots as the suspected author of some Tory pamphlets, the Connecticut Light-horsemen, under Sears, seized him and took him to Connecticut, where he was imprisoned for a time.
His authorship was not proven, and he was released, and while the British held possession of New York he spent most of his time in that city.
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