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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , John Quincy , 1767 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alien and Sedition laws, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brown , Jacob , 1775 -1828 (search)
Brown, Jacob, 1775-1828
Military officer; born in Bucks county, Pa., May 9, 1775, of Quaker parentage.
He taught school at Crosswicks.
N. J., for three years, and passed two
Medal presented to General Brown by Congress. years in surveying lands in Ohio.
In 1798 he opened a select school in the city of New York, and studied law. Some of his newspaper essays attracted the notice of
General Brown's monument. Gen. Alexander Hamilton, to whom he became secretary while that officer was acting general-in-chief of the army raised to fight the French.
On leaving that service he went to northern New York, purchased lands on the banks of the Black River, not many miles from Sackett's Harbor, and founded the flourishing settlement of Brownsville, where he erected the first building within 30 miles of Lake Ontario.
There he became county judge; colonel of the militia in 1809; brigadier-general in 1810; and, in 1812, received the appointment of commander of the frontier from Oswego to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Constitution of the United States (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cooper , miles 1735 -1785 (search)
Cooper, miles 1735-1785
Clergyman; born in England in 1735; graduated at Oxford University in 1761, and came to America the next year, sent by Archbishop Seeker as an assistant to Dr. Samuel Johnson, president of King's College.
He succeeded Johnson as president in 1763.
He was an active Tory when the Revolution broke out, and was reputed one of the authors, if not the author, of a tract entitled A friendly address to all reasonable Americans. Alexander Hamilton was then a pupil in the college, and he answered the pamphlet with ability.
Cooper became very obnoxious to the Whigs, and a public letter, signed Three millions, warned him and his friends that their lives were in danger.
On the night of May 10 a mob, led by Sons of Liberty, after destroying or carrying guns on the Battery, proceeded to drive him from the college.
He succeeded in escaping to a British vessel, and sailed for England.
He commemorated this stirring event by a poem printed in the Gentleman's magazine