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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, Lawrence 1718- (search)
nder General Wentworth. That officer and Admiral Vernon commanded a joint expedition against Carthagena, which resulted in disaster, not less than 20,000 British soldiers and seamen perishing, chiefly from a fatal sickness like yellow fever. It was in the midst of that terrible pestilence that the seeds of a fatal disease were planted in the system of Lawrence Washington, against which he struggled for years. During the campaign he had gained the confidence Lawrence Washington. Martha Washington. of both Wentworth and Vernon. Lawrence intended to go to England and join the regular army, but, falling in love with the beautiful Anne Fairfax, they were married in July, 1743. He took possession of his fine estate, and named it Mount Vernon, in honor of the gallant admiral. Little George was a frequent and muchpetted visitor at Mount Vernon. In 1751, when George was nineteen years of age, his brother felt compelled to go to Barbadoes in search of a renovation of his health. G
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, Martha 1732-1781 (search)
Washington, Martha 1732-1781 Wife of George Washington; born in New Kent county, Va., in May, 1732. Her maiden name was Dandridge, andLord Dunmore. She remained in Cambridge Shadow portrait of Martha Washington. until Howe evacuated Boston. Washington's headquarters therfellow, the poet. The people showed affectionate regard for Mrs. Washington, as the wife of the first President, when she journeyed from My these gentlemen and ladies to Gray's Ferry, on the One of Martha Washington's tea-cups. Schuylkill, where they all partook of a collation to the city Mrs. Robert Morris occupied a seat by the side of Mrs. Washington. When the procession entered the city the wife of the Presided several distinguished gentlemen, in the splendid barge in which Washington had been conveyed from the same place to New York a month before.New York, crowds of citizens were there assembled, who greeted Mrs. Washington with cheers, and from the battery near by the thunder of thirt
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth 1845- (search)
Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth 1845- Author; born in Southampton Furnace, Pa., Dec. 15, 1845; received a private school education; has written chiefly on colonial and Revolutionary topics; was a judge of the American colonial exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition. She is the author of Through colonial days; Colonial days and Dames; A last century maid; Life of Martha Washington; Salons colonial and Republican; Heirlooms in miniature, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheatley, Phillis 1753-1784 (search)
oet; born in Africa, of negro parents, presumably in 1753; was purchased as a slave by John Wheatley, of Boston, in 1761. She received a private education, and developed marvellous powers of acquisition. On Oct. 26, 1775, she sent a letter to Washington enclosing some lines written in his honor, which were afterwards published in the Pennsylvania magazine. These were highly praised by Washington in a letter addressed to her, Feb. 2, 1776. Thomas Jefferson also referred to her poetry in high ten in his honor, which were afterwards published in the Pennsylvania magazine. These were highly praised by Washington in a letter addressed to her, Feb. 2, 1776. Thomas Jefferson also referred to her poetry in high terms. Her other publications include An Elegiac poem on the death of George Whitfield, chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon; The negro equalled by few Europeans (poems, 2 volumes); Elegy sacred to the memory of Dr. Samuel Cooper, etc. She died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 5, 1784.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheeler, Samuel 1742-1820 (search)
Wheeler, Samuel 1742-1820 Blacksmith; born in Weccaco, Pa., in 1742; was in the Continental army during the Revolutionary War, and at the personal request of Washington made the chain which was stretched across the Hudson River at West Point to prevent the passage of British vessels. He also manufactured a cannon by welding together iron bars, which did better execution, had a longer range, and was not so heavy as brass ordnance. During the action at Brandywine this gun did such good service that it was regarded as a wonder by American officers, but before the conclusion of that battle it was captured and afterwards sent to England, where it was exhibited in the Tower of London. Later, Napoleon Bonaparte used a pattern of it as a model for the cannon used by his flying artillery. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 10, 1820. See Clinton, Fort, capture of.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White, Anthony Walton 1750-1803 (search)
White, Anthony Walton 1750-1803 Military officer; born in New Brunswick, N. J., July 7, 1750; was appointed lieutenantcolonel of the 3d New Jersey Regiment in February, 1776, and was in command of cavalry in South Carolina in 1780. He and most of his command were captured at Lanneau's Ferry in May of that year. Colonel White was greatly esteemed by Washington, who in 1798 chose him as one of the brigadier-generals of the provisional army. He died in New Brunswick, N. J., Feb. 10, 1803.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White House, the, Washington, D. C. (search)
s restored in 1818. The front door is on the north side of the building, and opens from a pillared private portion of the house. On the left-hand side is a hall from which rises the staircase that is climbed by all the people who go to see the President on business. From this supplementary hall opens the great East Room that occupies one end of the building. This room is 80 feet long by 40 feet wide with a ceiling 22 feet high. Lifesized portraits of the Father of his country and Martha Washington adorn the walls, which are decorated in white and gold. There are two mirrors in panels and over the mantels. Two doors open to the west, the one into the red corridor, which runs at right angles to the East Room, and the other into the Green Room —the first of the suite of parlors known as the Green, Blue, and Red rooms—on the south side of the house. Each room measures about 30 × 20 feet. The red corridor is lighted from the glass screen seen on entering; it communicates with the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White House, the, Va. (search)
4 men, mostly New-Yorkers; the loss of the Confederates was small. Near the White House—the estate that belonged to Mrs. Washington, on the Pamunkey, one of the streams that form the York River—Franklin was enabled to establish a permanent and impo at the White House, about 18 miles from Richmond, on May 16. The wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee was a granddaughter of Mrs. Washington and owner of the White House estate. She was there, with a part of her family, when the Nationals approached, and fled towards Richmond, but was brought back. Under the impression that this was the house in which Washington resided a while after his marriage, it was carefully guarded as a pious relic of the Father of his Country; but when it was found that thes marriage, it was carefully guarded as a pious relic of the Father of his Country; but when it was found that the white house sanctified by the presence of Washington had been burned more than thirty years before, all reverence for it was dismis
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whiteside, Peter 1752-1828 (search)
Whiteside, Peter 1752-1828 Patriot; born in Puten, England, in 1752; settled in Philadelphia, where he became a prosperous merchant; advanced much of his wealth during the Revolutionary War to provide shoes for the American soldiers; and was sent by Washington to France to arrange for better trading facilities with the American colonies. In conjunction with his brother, William Whiteside, and Robert Morris, he sent to the East Indies the first merchant vessel from the Western Hemisphere to trade there. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in December, 1828.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willett, Mabinus 1740-1830 (search)
in command, until January, 1776, and was soon afterwards made lieutenant-colonel of the 3d New York Regiment. In May, 1777, he was ordered to Fort Stanwix, and assisted in its defence in August following, making a successful sortie to effect a diversion in favor of General Herkimer (see Oriskany, battle of). He bore a message, by stealth, to General Schuyler, which led to the expedition up the Mohawk Valley, under General Arnold, that caused the abandonment of the siege of Fort Stanwix. He joined the army under Washington in June, 1776, and was in the battle of Monmouth; and in 1779 he accompanied General Sullivan's expedition against the Indians in New York. At the close of the war he was chosen sheriff of the city of New York, and remained so eight years (1784-92), and was mayor in 1807. In 1792 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the army intended to act against the Northwestern Indians, but declined. He published an autobiography. He died in New York City, Aug. 22, 1830.
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