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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Speech of Judge C. P. Daly, on the presentation of flags to the sixty-ninth regiment N. Y. S. V., Nov. 18, 1861. (search)
Irishman, therefore, ask what his duty is in this contest? Let him learn it in the history of his own country, in the story of that green flag; let him, contemplating the sorrows of his mother Erin, remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her. What is asked of an Irishman in this crisis? He is asked to preserve that Government which Montgomery died to create, and which those Irishmen who signed the Declaration of Independence, George Taylor, James Smith, and Matthew Thornton, meant to transmit, with its manifold blessings, to every Irishman who should make this country the land of his adoption. To the Irish race it has been, in every sense, a country — a country where their native energy and stimulated industry have met with their appropriate reward; and where they have enjoyed an amount of political consequence, and exercised a degree of political influence, not found in the land of their nativity. Whatever may be the result of our experiment of self-gov
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Declaration of Independence. (search)
war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress. John Hancock, President. Attested, Charles Thompson, Secretary. New Hampshire. Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton. Massachusetts Bay. Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry. Rhode Island, Etc. Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery. Connecticut. Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott. New York. William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris. New Jersey. Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark. North Carolina. William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. Georgia. Button Gwinnett, Lyma
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Provincial Congresses (search)
ssuming both legislative and executive powers, received the allegiance of the people generally. So passed away royal rule in Massachusetts, and the sovereignty of the people was established in the form of the Provincial Congress. Gage issued a proclamation denouncing their proceedings, to which no attention was paid. The Provincial Congress of New Hampshire assembled at Exeter, on May 17, 1775, when ninety-eight counties, towns, parishes, and boroughs were represented by deputies. Matthew Thornton was chosen president, and Eleazar Thompson secretary. They established a post-office at Portsmouth, provided for procuring arms, recommended the establishment of home manufactures, commissioned Brigadier-General Folsom first commander, and provided for the issue of bills of credit. On May 2, 1775, the provincial committee of correspondence of New Jersey directed the chairman to summon a Provincial Congress of deputies to meet in Trenton, on the 23d of that month. Thirteen counties
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thornton, Matthew 1714-1803 (search)
Thornton, Matthew 1714-1803 A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Ireland in 1714; came to America in early life; was educated at Worcester, and became a physician in New Hampshire. He was in Pepperell's expedition against Louisburg in 1745 as a surgeon; presided over the New Hampshire Provincial Convention in 1775; and was a short time a delegate to the Continental Congress, taking his seat in November, 1776, when he signed the Declaration. He was made chief-justice of the county of Hillsboro, and judge of the Supreme Court of the State. He was in both branches of the legislature, and in the council in 1785. He died in Newburyport, Mass., June 24, 1803.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Hampshire, (search)
to the delegates of New Hampshire in Congress......June 15, 1776 Declaration of Independence of the United States signed by Josiah Bartlett and William Whipple, of New Hampshire, Aug. 2, 1776, and by a third representative from the State, Matthew Thornton......November, 1776 New Hampshire troops engage in the battle of Bennington, under John Stark, who is made brigadier-general by Congress......Aug. 18, 1777 Articles of Confederation ratified by New Hampshire, March 4, 1778, and signed nover to the farm of the late Benjamin Thompson, of Durham, and passes a secret or Australian ballot act at its session......Jan. 7–April 11, 1891 Ex-Gov. Samuel W. Hale dies at Brooklyn, aged sixty-eight......Oct. 16, 1891 Monument to Matthew Thornton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, erected by legislative authority, dedicated at Merrimac......May 27, 1892 Statue of John P. Hale, donated by his son-in-law, W. E. Chandler, unveiled in the State-house yard, Concord......Aug. 3
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Samuel Phipps (search)
e was colonel of the Fifth New Hampshire regiment of militia. At the outbreak of hostilities, he repaired to Boston and joined General Gage. In 1778, he was proscribed by the general court of New Hampshire, and his property confiscated. Dr. Matthew Thornton, one of the signers of the Declaration, and a busy, prominent politician, thrifty in his graft, purchased Lutwyche's farm, and the ferry has ever since been known as Thornton's. Lutwyche went to Halifax with Lord Howe, was in New York afteThornton's. Lutwyche went to Halifax with Lord Howe, was in New York after peace was declared, returned to Nova Scotia, and ended his days there. The father, Edward Lutwyche, came from Radnor, in Wales, and married, in 1727, Thankful Parmiter, who died in 1734. He retired in 1740 to a fine farm of 160 acres in Hopkinton, and died there in 1747. There were two McCartys in Charlestown at the period under review, James and John, and in 1740 Thomas Maccurdy, a stranger, was buried at the town's expense. Of Doch Perkins we find no trace. The only men of the na
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Index (search)
Swaney, Sentinel, 52. Sweatsur, Josepg, 83. Sweden. 13. Sweetser, Benjamin. 41, 88. Sweetser,, Joseph. 84, 88. Sweetser, Samuel, 88. Sycamore Street, Somerville, 12. Teel, Jonathan, 63, 66. Teel, Samuel P., 90, 96. Ten Hills Farm, 8, 11, 23, 80. Tenney, Robert G., 90. Texas, 53. Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, 2. Thirteenth Maine Regiment, 27, 37. Thirty-first Massachusetts Regiment, 27, 32, 36. Thompson, 95. Thompson, Dr. Abram R., 64, 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 90. Thornton, Dr., Matthew. 86. Thompson, Mrs., 93, 95, 96. Thompson Square, 84. Thompson, Thomas, 97. Thompson, Timothy, 63, 64. Thompson, Timothy, Jr., 40. Three Pole Lane, 74. Tillotson, Mr., 45. Town Hill, 100. Tremont Street, Boston, 27. Trumbal, Samll, 85. Trumbull, John, 88. Trumbull, Mary (Jones), 88. Trumbull, Richard, 41. Trumbull, Samuel, 88. Trumbull, Timothy, 15, 88. Tufts, Miss, Abigail, 93. Tufts College, 1, 2. Tufts, Edmund, 93. Tufts, Isaac, 64, 72, 73, 74, 90, 9
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., New Hampshire soldiers in Medford. (search)
nument in this ancient God's Acre, whose inscription gives a brief outline of the life of John Brooks, the Medford boy who was friend of Lafayette and Washington and governor of this Commonwealth. We are justly proud of him for the dignity of his character and his three-fold able service along military, civic and medical lines. You may see his face portrayed in Trumbull's picture of the surrender of Burgoyne in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. Colonel Stark in a letter to Matthew Thornton, who was president of a Provincial Convention at Exeter, New Hampshire, addressed a letter to him there, two days after the battle stating that Major McClary was killed by a cannon-ball and Captain Baldwin and Lieutenant Scott by small arms. He further furnished the following:— The whole number, including officers, killed and missing,15 wounded,45 — 60 He also transmitted the account of Reed's losses, at the desire of the latter. This letter of Stark may have been wr