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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Block , or Blok , Adriaen , 1610 - (search)
Block, or Blok, Adriaen, 1610-
Navigator; born in Amsterdam, Holland.
In 1610 he made a successful voyage to Manhattan (now New York) Bay, taking back to Amsterdam a cargo of rich furs.
In 1614 he bought a merchant ship, the Tiger, and again visited Manhattan.
the Tiger was accidentally destroyed by fire, but with his crew he made a yacht, named the Unrest, and with this explored adjacent waters.
He was the first European to sail through Hell Gate, and he discovered the rivers now known by the names of Housatonic and Connecticut.
The latter he explored as far as the site of Hartford, and still pushing east discovered Block Island, which was named for him. After reaching Cape Cod he left the Unrest, and returned to Holland on one of the ships which had sailed with him on his westward cruise.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Champlain , Samuel de 1567 -1635 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clinton , Charles 1690 -1773 (search)
Clinton, Charles 1690-1773
Immigrant; born in Longford, Ireland, in 1690.
With a number of relatives and friends, he sailed from Ireland for America in May, 1729.
His destination was Philadelphia; but the captain of the vessel, with a view to their destruction by starvation, so as to obtain their property, landed them on barren Cape Cod, after receiving large sums of money as commutation for their lives.
Clinton and his family and friends made their way to Ulster county, about 60 miles up the Hudson and 8 miles from it, in 1731, and there formed a settlement, he pursuing the occupation of farmer and surveyor.
He was justice of the peace, county judge, and lieutenant-colonel of Ulster county, to which he gave its name.
Two of his four sons were generals in the war for independence, and his youngest (George) was governor of the State of New York and Vice-President of the United States.
He died in Ulster (now Orange) county, N. Y., Nov. 19, 1773.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Freeman , Frederick 1800 -1883 (search)
Freeman, Frederick 1800-1883
Clergyman; born in Sandwich, Mass., in 1800; was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Plymouth, Mass., in 1823; subsequently took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Among his works are a History of Cape Cod; Annals of Barnstable county; Genealogy of the Freeman family, etc. He died in Sandwich, Mass., in 1883.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gosnold , Bartholomew 1602 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hudson River , discovery of the. (search)
Hudson River, discovery of the.
The following narrative is from The Third Voyage of Master Henry Hudson, toward Nova Zembla, and at his Returne, his Passing from Farre Islands to Newfound Land, and along to Fortie-foure Degrees and Ten Minutes, and thence to Cape Cod, and so to Thirtie-three Degrees; and along the Coast to the Northward, to Fortie-two Degrees and an Halfe, and up the River Neere to Fortie-three Degrees, written by Robert Juet:
The first of September [1609], faire weather, the wind variable betweene east and south: we steered away north northwest.
At noone we found our height to bee 39 degrees, 3 minutes. Wee had soundings thirtie, twentie-seven, twentiefoure, and twentie-two fathomes, as wee went to the northward.
At sixe of the clocke wee had one and twentie fathoms.
And all the third watch, till twelve of the clocke at mid-night, we had sounding one and twentie, two and twentie, eighteene, two and twentie, eighteene, and two and twentie fathoms, and wen