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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Declaration of Independence. (search)
lf 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, Lyman Hall, George Walton. Pennsylvania. Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamiin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, William Paca, George Ross. Delaware. Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean. Maryland. Samuel Chase, James Wilson, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Virginia. George Wythe, R
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Princeton University, (search)
obtained in 1746, and it was opened for students in May, 1747, at Elizabethtown, N. J. The same year it was removed to Newark, and in 1757 it was transferred to Princeton, where a new college edifice, named Nassau Hall, had just been completed. That name was given in honor of William III., of the illustrious house of Nassau. The college itself was often called Nassau Hall. It suffered much during the Revolution, being occupied as barracks and hospital by both armies. The president, Dr. Witherspoon, and two of the alumni, Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton, were signers of the Declaration of Independence; and several of the leading patriots during the war, and statesmen afterwards, were graduates of the College of New Jersey. General Washington and the Continental Congress were present at the commencement in 1783. Other buildings were Seal of Princeton University. erected, and it had steady prosperity until the breaking out of the Civil War in 1861. Nassau Hall was burned in 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sectarian influences. (search)
were in political sympathy with the Congregationalists. Both had opposed the scheme of the Anglican Church, through the society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, to establish an Episcopacy in the colonies. These two branches of the English dissenting body cherished a traditionary opposition to British control, political or ecclesiastical, and the Congregationalists had just passed through a bitter controversy on the subject of the introduction of bishops into America. Witherspoon, who was at the head of the Presbyterian College of New Jersey, was sent as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and was very active in that body. The native-born Presbyterians were nearly all Whigs, while the Scotch Presbyterian emigrants, who were mostly in the Southern colonies, adhered to the crown. Such was the case of that class in the interior of New York, under the influence of the Johnson family in the Mohawk region. In Virginia, where Episcopacy was the established and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
Ordinance passed denouncing the penalty of treason upon all who should levy war against and within the State, or be adherent to the King of Great Britain......July 18, 1776 Abraham Clark, John Hart, Francis Hopkins, Richard Stockton, and John Witherspoon, delegates from New Jersey, sign the Declaration of Independence......Aug. 2, 1776 Legislature chooses William Livingston governor of the State......Aug. 31, 1776 Washington retreats through New Jersey.......November, 1776 Fort Washgton by Isaac Collins......Dec. 3, 1777 Battle of Monmouth Court-house......June 28, 1778 Isaac Collins prints 5,000 copies of a family Bible at Trenton......1778 Assembly ratifies the Articles of Confederation......Nov. 19, 1778 John Witherspoon and Nathaniel Scudder, the delegates from New Jersey, sign the Articles of Confederation......Nov. 26, 1778 British at Paulus Hook surprised by Maj. Henry Lee......Aug. 19, 1779 New Jersey Journal established by Shepherd Kollock at Cha
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Witherspoon, John 1722- (search)
Witherspoon, John 1722- Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Gifford, Scotland, Feb. 5, 1722; was a lineal descendant of John Knox. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he was licensed to preach at twenty-one. When the Young Pretender landed in England young Witherspoon marched at the head of a corps of milWitherspoon marched at the head of a corps of militia to join him. He was taken prisoner at Falkirk, and remained in Donne Castle until the battle of Culloden. While settled at Paisley he was called (1767) to the presidency of the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and was inaugurated in August, 1768. He had already written and published several works, and had acquired a fin Professor of Divinity; also pastor of the Presbyterian church at Princeton. At the beginning of the Revolution the college was for a time broken up, when President Witherspoon assisted in the patriotic political movements. He also assisted in framing a State constitution for New Jersey, and went as a delegate to Congress in time
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Graham, 275. Davis, Jefferson, trusted by Calhoun, 106; his Rise and Fall of the Confederate States Government, 109; beauty and purity of character of, 294; last escort of, 337; prison life of and fellow prisoners, 338, 371. DeBell, Captain J. B., 144. DeLeon, T. C., 146. DeLeon, Edward, 115. Dinkins, Captain James, 250, 299. Dispatch, Capture of Confederate, 69. Donelson, Surrender of Fort, 126. Dred Scott Decision, 31. Duke, General Basil W., 132. DuBose, John Witherspoon, 102. Early, Everett, 207. Early, General J. A. Vindicated, 224. Early, J. Cabell, 222. Echols, General John, 174. Ellis, Governor John W., 275, 291. Embargo Act of 1807, 17. Engineer Troops, Parole list of, 51. Erlanger & Co., Proposition of, 113. Eustace, Lieutenant, killed, 240. Featherstone-Posey-Harris, Miss, Brigade; Organization and services of, 329, 330, 331, 336. Federal Army, Foreign Elements of, 6; Union Hessians and Negroes in, 113, 125, 205.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 64: (search)
be let alone; a firm faith, which is too easily tempted to establish itself exclusively, can be content with nothing less than equality. A young man, then unknown to fame, of a bright hazel eye, inclining to grey, small in stature, light in person, delicate in appearance, looking like a pallid, sickly scholar among the robust men with whom he was associated, proposed a change. He was James Madison, the son of an Orange county planter, bred in the school of Presbyterian dissenters under Witherspoon at Princeton, trained by his own studies, by meditative rural life in the Old Dominion, by an ingenuous indignation at the persecutions of the Baptists, by the innate principles of right, to uphold the sanctity of religious freedom. He objected to the word toleration, because it implied an established religion, which endured dissent only as a condescension; and as the earnestness of his convictions overcame his modesty, he went on to demonstrate that all men are equally entitled to the f
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 68: (search)
court martial, was hanged. It was the first military execution of the revolution. This discovery of danger from secret foes, made no change in the conduct of the commander in chief; he placed his trust in the protection of an CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. all-wise and beneficent Being; and knew no fear. The new provincial congress of New Jersey, which came fresh from the people with ample powers, and organized itself in the evening of the eleventh of June, was opened with prayer by John Witherspoon, an eloquent Scottish minister of the same faith with John Knox; a man of great ability, learning, and liberality, ready to dash into pieces all images of false gods. Born near Edinburgh, trained up at its university, in 1768 he removed to Princeton, to become the successor of Jonathan Edwards, Davies, and Finley, as president of its college. A combatant of scepticism and the narrow philosophy of the materialists, he was deputed by Somerset county to take part in applying his noble th