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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bellomont , Richard Coote , Earl of, (search)
Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of,
Colonial governor; born in 1636; was of the Irish peerage, and among the first to espouse the cause of the Prince of Orange when he invaded England.
he was created earl in 1689, and made treasurer and receiver-general of Queen Mary.
In May, 1695, he was appointed governor of New York, but did not arrive there until May, 1698.
Meanwhile he had been commissioned governor of Massachusetts, including New Hampshire; and on going to Boston, in 1699, he was well received, and his administration was popular.
Bellomont had been one of the parliamentary committee appointed to investigate the affair of Leisler's trial and execution, and had taken a warm interest in the reversal of the attainder of that unfortunate leader.
On his arrival in New York, he naturally connected himself with the Leisler party, whom Governor Fletcher had strongly opposed.
Bellomont came with power to inquire into the conduct of Governor Fletcher, and he was so well satisfied
Bill of rights.
The title of an act of Parliament declaring the rights and liberties of the people and defining the power of the King and its conditions, Passed in 1689.
It reads as follows:
Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully, and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm, did upon the Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-eight [O. S.], present unto their Ma except in such cases as shall be specially provided for by one or more bill or bills to be passed during this present session of Parliament.
XIII.
Provided that no charter, or grant, or pardon granted before the three-and-twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty-nine, shall be any ways impeached or invalidated by this Act, but that the same shall be and remain of the same force and effect in law, and no other, than as if this Act and never been made.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bradstreet , Simon , -1697 (search)
Charter Oak, the
A famous oak-tree that stood upon the northern slope of the Wyllys Hill, in Hartford, a beautiful elevation on the south side of Charter Oak Street, a few rods east from Main Street. The trunk was 25 feet in circumference near the roots.
A large cavity, about 2 feet from the ground, was the place of concealment of the original charter of Connecticut from the summer of 1687 until the spring of 1689, when it was brought forth, and under it Connecticut resumed its charter government.
In 1800 a daughter of Secretary Wyllys, writing to Dr. Holmes, the annalist, said of this tree: The first inhabitant of that name [Wyllys] found it standing in the height of its glory.
Age seems to have curtailed its branches, yet it is not exceeded in the height of its coloring or the richness of its foliage.
The cavity which was the asylum of our charter was near the roots, and large enough to admit a child.
Within the space of eight years that cavity has closed, as if it had f
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dupratz , Antoine Simon Le page , 1689 -1775 (search)
Dupratz, Antoine Simon Le page, 1689-1775
Explorer; born in Tourcoing, France, in 1689; settled on the Mississippi River among the Natchez Indians in 1720.
For eight years he explored the regions watered by the Missouri and Arkansas rivers.
He published a History of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina.
He died in Paris, France, in 1775.
Dupratz, Antoine Simon Le page, 1689-1775
Explorer; born in Tourcoing, France, in 1689; settled on the Mississippi River among the Natchez Indians in 1720.
For eight years he explored the regions watered by the Missouri and Arkansas rivers.
He published a History of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina.
He died in Paris, France, in 1775.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frontenac , Louis de Buade , Count de 1620 - (search)
Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Count de 1620-
Colonial governor; born in France in 1620; was made a colonel at seventeen years of age, and was an eminent lieutenant-gen- eral at twenty-nine, covered with decorations and scars.
Selected by Marshal Turenne to lead troops sent for the relief of Canada, he was made governor of that province in 1672, and built Fort Frontenac (now Kingston), at the foot of Lake Ontario in 1673.
He was recalled in 1682, but was reappointed in 1689, when the French dominions in America were on the brink of ruin.
With great energy he carried on war against the English in New York and New England, and their allies, the Iroquois.
Early in 1696 an expedition which he sent towards Albany desolated Schenectady; and the same year he successfully resisted a land and naval force sent against Canada.
He was in Montreal when an Indian runner told him of the approach to the St. Lawrence of Colonel Schuyler (see King William's War). Frontenac, then seventy years of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Habeas corpus, (search)