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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Baltimore, (search)
tary affairs in Philadelphia, and the Congress delegated its executive powers to a resident committee composed of Robert Morris, George Clymer, and George Walton, to act in their behalf during their absence. In Baltimore, the Congress reassembled (Dec. 20, 1776) in a spacious brick building that stood until within a few years, with fronts on Baltimore, Sharpe, and Liberty streets, and where, on the 23d, Rev. Patrick Allison, first minister of the Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, and Rev. William White, of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, were appointed chaplains. On June 18, 1860, the adjourned convention of Democratic delegates who had assembled in Charleston met at Baltimore, with Mr. Cushing in the chair. The Meeting-place of Congress in Baltimore in 1776. seceders from the Charleston Convention, who had been in session at Richmond, had adjourned to Baltimore, and claimed the right to sit in the convention from which they had withdrawn. Mr. Cushing declined to decide
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pilgrim fathers, the (search)
port. Dismissing this unseaworthy vessel, 101 of the number who came from Leyden sailed in the Mayflower, Sept. 6 (O. S.). These included the Pilgrim fathers, so called. The following are the names of the forty-one persons who signed the constitution of government on board the Mayflower, and are known as the Pilgrim Fathers: John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Myles Standish, John Alden, Samuel Fuller, Christopher Martin, William Mullins, William White, Richard Warren, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Tilley, John Tilley, Francis Cook, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Tinker, John Ridgedale, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Francis Eaton, James Chilton, John Crackston, John Billington, Moses Fletcher, John Goodman, Degory Priest, Thomas Williams, Gilbert Winslow, Edward Margeson, Peter Brown, Richard Britteridge, George Soule, Richard Clarke, Richard Gardiner, John Allerton, Thomas English, Edward Doty, Edward Lister. Each subscriber placed oppo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presidential administrations. (search)
e opposition, House Democratic; Stevenson, speaker; 1835-37, Senate opposition, then Democratic, House Democratic; Polk, speaker. 1837-41: Van Buren; R. M. Johnson, Vice-President, Democrat; Forsyth, State; Woodbury, Treasury. Congress, Democratic; Polk and Hunter, speakers. 1841-45: W. H. Harrison; Tyler, Vice-President (succeeded as President April 4, 1841), Whig; Webster, afterwards Legare, Upshur, Calhoun, State; numerous changes in the other departments. Congress, 1841-43, Whig; White, speaker; 1843-45, Senate Whig, House Democratic; J. W. Jones, speaker. 1845-49; Polk; Dallas, Vice-President, Democrat; Buchanan, State; Walker, Treasury; Marcy, War; Bancroft, at first, Navy. Congress, 1845-47, Democratic; J. W. Davis, speaker; 1847-49, Senate Democratic, House Whig; R. C. Winthrop, speaker. 1849-53: Taylor; Fillmore, Vice-President (succeeded as President July 9, 1850), Whig; Clayton, Webster, Everett, State; numerous changes in other departments. Congress, Demo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
houses......Jan. 9, 1621 Storehouse takes fire and nearly burns down......Jan. 14, 1621 Mrs. Rose Standish, the wife of Miles Standish, dies......Jan. 29, 1621 Miles Standish made captain with military authority......Feb. 17, 1621 William White dies......Feb. 21, 1621 Samoset, the first Indian to visit the colony, saying, Welcome, Englishmen! ......March 16, 1621 Massasoit, the grand sachem of the Wampanoags, with about sixty of his warriors, visits the colony......March 22,four months to......April 1, 1621 Mayflower sails for England on her return voyage......April 5, 1621 Governor Carver dies......April 5, 1621 William Bradford elected governor, Isaac Allerton deputy......1621 Susanna, the widow of William White, marries Edward Winslow, the first marriage in the colony......May 12, 1621 Twenty acres of Indian corn and beans are planted and six acres of barley and pease by the colony in the spring of......1621 First duel in New England was fough
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White, William 1748-1836 (search)
White, William 1748-1836 Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 4, 1748; graduated at Philadelphia College in 1765; studied theology, and was admitted to priest's orders in England in April, 1772. Returning to Philadelphia, he became assiss, and in April, 1779, was chosen rector of those churches. He was elected chaplain to Congress at York, Pa., in 1778. Dr. White presided at the first convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America in 1785, and the constitution of that Chn 1786, and he was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Feb. 4, 1787, returning to Philadelphia on Easter Day. Bishop White was very active in the Church and in society. He was president of the Philadelphia Bible Society, of the DispensaryDispensary, of the Prison Society, and of the societies for the benefit of the deaf and dumb and the blind. William White. He published Memoirs of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 17, 1836.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winslow, Edward 1595- (search)
Winslow, Edward 1595- Colonial governor; born in Droitwich, England, Oct. 18, 1595; became a Puritan in his youth; married the daughter of a Dissenter; came to America from Holland, in the Mayflower, in 1620; and soon afterwards buried his bride here. He then married Susannah, widow of William White, and one of his fellow-passengers. Winslow offered himself to Massasoit, the Indian sachem, as a hostage, at the first conference between the English and the natives, and won his respect and affection, especially by his curing the old ruler of an illness in 1623. He made two voyages to England Edward Winslow. (1623-1624) as agent for the colony, and in 1633 he succeeded Bradford as governor. He again visited England, where he was imprisoned by Archbishop Laud seventeen weeks for teaching in the church and performing the marriage ceremony as a magistrate. Winslow was one of the most active men in the colony, and was governor three successive terms. On his return from England,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zagonyi's charge. (search)
Zagonyi's charge. When on his march southward, in October, 1861, General Fremont sent the combined cavalry forces of Zagonyi, a Hungarian commanding his guard, and Major White to reconnoitre the position of the Confederates at Springfield, Mo. They were led by the former, who was instructed to attempt the capture of Springfield if circumstances should promise success. The whole force did not exceed 300 men. As they approached the place (Oct. 24), they were informed that the Confederates On their centre a lieutenant, with thirty men, dashed madly, breaking their line and scattering the whole body in confusion over the neighboring cornfields. The remainder of Zagonyi's men charged, and at the same moment fifty Irish dragoons of White's command, led by Major McNaughton, fell upon the foe, and the Confederate cavalry and infantry fled in terror, pursued by a portion of Zagonyi's guard. Through the streets of Springfield they were chased, while the Union women cheered on the vi