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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 13 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for William Woodbridge or search for William Woodbridge in all documents.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shays , Daniel 1747 -1825 (search)
Shays, Daniel 1747-1825
Insurgent; born in Hopkinton, Mass., in 1747; was an ensign in Woodbridge's regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill, and became a captain in the Continental army.
His place in history was obtained by his leadership of an insurrection in Massachusetts in 1786-87.
In other portions of the Union, discontents like those which produced the State of Frankland (q. v. ) caused revolutionary movements.
A convention of the people of Maine, sitting in Portland (September, 1786), considered the expediency of erecting themselves into an independent State, but nothing came of it. In Massachusetts a more formidable movement took place.
The General Court had voted customs and excise duties to produce a revenue sufficient to meet the interest on the State.
debt. Besides this burden laid upon them, the people were suffering from private indebtedness.
There were taxes to meet the instalments to be paid on the principal of the State debt, and, also, responses had to be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woodbridge , William 1780 -1861 (search)
Woodbridge, William 1780-1861
Governor; born in Norwich, Conn., Aug. 20, 1780; went with his father to Marietta, O., in 1791, being one of the first settlers of the Northwestern Territory; was admitted to the bar in 1806; prosecuting attorney for New London county, O., in 1808-14; made secretary of Michigan Territory by President Madison, and settled in Detroit; member of Congress in 1819-20; judge of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1828-32; governor of Michigan in 1840-41, member of the United States Senate in 1841-47.
He died in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 20, 1861.