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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Annexed Territory , status of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke , Edmund , 1730 -1797 (search)
Burke, Edmund, 1730-1797
Statesman; born in Dublin, June 1, 1730; was one of fifteen children of Richard Burke, an attorney, and was descended from the Norman De Burghs, who early settled in Ireland; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin (1748); studied law, and in 1756 published his famous essay on The sublime and beautiful.
That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America, consisting of fourteen separate governments.
and contaning 2,000,000 and upward of free
Edmund Burke. inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending any knights and burgesses, or others, to represent them in the high court of Parli s to make the same more commodious to those who sue, or are sued, in the said courts; and to provide for the more decent maintenance of the judges of the same.
Burke's speech on conciliation.
I hope, sir, that, notwithstanding the austerity of the chair, your good-nature will incline you to some degree of indulgence towards
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cruger , Henry , Jr. 1739 -1780 (search)
Cruger, Henry, Jr. 1739-1780
Merchant; born in New York City, in 1739.
His father became a merchant in Bristol, England, where he died in 1780.
Henry was associated with him in trade, and succeeded him as mayor of Bristol in 1781.
He had been elected to Parliament as the colleague of Edmund Burke in 1774, and was re-elected in 1784, and on all occasions advocated conciliatory measures towards his countrymen.
After the war he became a merchant in New York, and, while yet a member of the British Parliament, was elected to the Senate of the State of New York.
He died in New York, April 24, 1827.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Declaration of Independence in the light of modern criticism, the. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fanning , David 1756 -1825 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franklin , Benjamin 1706 -1790 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Livingston , Philip 1716 - (search)
Livingston, Philip 1716-
Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1716; graduated at Yale College in 1737; became a prominent merchant in the city of New York; was an alderman there from 1754 to 1758; and a member of the Provincial Assembly in 1759, in which he was one of the committee of correspondence with the colonial agent in England, Edmund Burke.
Livingston opposed the taxation schemes of Parliament, and was unseated by a Tory majority in 1769, when the controversy between Great Britain and her colonies ran high.
He was a member of the first Congress (1774), and held a seat in that body until his death, when their session was held at York, the British having possession of Philadelphia.
Mr. Livingston was associated with Lee and Jay in the preparation of the two state papers put forth by the first Congress, and was very active on the most important committees in Congress.
He founded the professorship of divinity at Yale College in 1746;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Montgomery , Richard 1736 - (search)