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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 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) 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 2 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 1 1 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 1 1 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Green, Samuel 1615-1792 (search)
Green, Samuel 1615-1792 Second printer in the United States; born in England in 1615; succeeded Day (see day, or dayE, Stephen) in 1648. Mr. Green had nineteen children, and his descendants were a race of printers in New England and in Maryland. He printed the Cambridge Platform in 1649, the entire Bible and Psalter, translated into the Indian language by John Eliot the Apostle, in 1663, and many other books. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 1, 1792.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Josselyn, John 1638- (search)
Josselyn, John 1638- Author; born in England early in the seventeenth century; travelled in America in 1638-39 and 1663-71. He is the author of New England's rarities discovered; An account of two voyages to New England, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Manufactures, colonial (search)
Manufactures, colonial As soon as the American colonies began to manufacture for themselves, they encountered the jealousy of the English manufacturers. The act of 1663 extended to the vent of English woollens, and other manufactures and commodities. In 1699 Parliament declared that no wool, yarn, or woollen manufactures of the American plantations should be shipped there, or even laden, in order to be transported thence to any place whatever. This was the beginning of restrictions on our colonial manufactures. In 1719 the House of Commons said that the erecting of manufactories in the colonies tended to lessen their dependence upon Great Britain. The colonies continually increased in population, and in the products of their industry and economy, and complaints from interested persons were constantly made to the British government that they were not only carrying on trade, but setting up manufactories detrimental to Great Britain. In 1731 the House of Commons direacted the b
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mather, cotton 1663-1728 (search)
Mather, cotton 1663-1728 Clergyman; born in Boston, Feb. 12, 1663; was one of the most notable of the early New England divines. He graduated at Harvard in 1678, was employed several years in teaching, and was ordained a minister in May, 1684, as colleague of his father, Dr. Increase Mather. The doctrine of special providence he carried to excess. He was credulous and superstitious, and believed he was doing God service by witch-hunting. His Wonders of the invisible world (1692) gives an account of the trials of witchcraft. In 1700 he published More wonders, and seems never to have relinquished his belief in witches and witchcraft. Aside from this peculiarity, he was a most sincere, earnest, indefatigable Christian worker, engaging in every good work; and he was the first to employ the press extensively in this country in the dissemination of tracts treating of temperance, religion, and social morals. He preached and wrote for sailors, Indians, Cotton Mather. and negroe
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
gation act that affected the American colonies was an ordinance of the British Parliament in 1646, by which all goods, merchandise, and necessaries for the English-American plantations were exempted from duty for three years, on condition that no colonial vessel be suffered to lade any goods of the growth of the plantations and carry them to a foreign port, excepting in English bottoms. The preamble to the ordinance mentioned Virginia, Bermudas, Barbadoes, and other places of America. In 1663 Parliament passed an act for securing the monopoly of the trade of the English-American colonies for the benefit of the English shipping interest, then a powerful factor in politics. It prohibited the importation into any of the English colonies of any commodities of the growth, production, and manufacture of Europe, unless they were shipped from the British Islands in English-built vessels. For the enforcement of the navigation acts courts of vice-admiralty were established throughout the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newport, capture of (search)
ndation-stones of one of the supporting columns many years ago, they were found to be composed of hewn spheres. This structure is a hard nut for antiquaries and historians to crack. Some regard it as a Scandinavian structure of great antiquity, and others as a windmill built by some of the early colonists of Rhode Island. Gov. Benedict Arnold Old Stone Tower, Newport. speaks of it in his will (1677) as his stone-built windmill. Peter Easton, another early settler, says in his diary for 1663: This year we built our first windmill. Easton built it himself of wood, and for his enterprise he was rewarded by the colony with a strip of land on the ocean front, known as Easton's Beach. Such a novel structure as this tower, if built for a windmill, would have received more than a local notice. No chronicler of the day refers to it, nor is it mentioned as being there when the settlers first seated themselves on the island. It was a very inconvenient structure for a windmill, for it w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Norton, John 1606-1663 (search)
Norton, John 1606-1663 Clergyman; born in Hertfordshire, England, May 6, 1606; became a Puritan preacher; settled in New Plymouth in 1635; and went to Boston in 1636, while the Hutchinsonian controversy (see Hutchinson, Anne) was running high. He soon became minister of the church at Ipswich. In 1648 he assisted in framing the Cambridge Platform. He went with Governor Bradstreet to Charles II., after his restoration, to get a confirmation of the Massachusetts charter. A requirement which the King insisted upon—namely, that justice should be administered in the royal name, and that all persons of good moral character should be admitted to the Lord's Supper, and their children to baptism—was very offensive to the colonists, who treated their agents who agreed to the requirement with such coldness that it hastened the death of Norton, it is said. The first Latin prose book written in the country was by Norton—an answer to questions relating to church government. He also wrote a<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prince, or Prence, Thomas 1601-1673 (search)
Prince, or Prence, Thomas 1601-1673 Colonial governor; born in England in 1601; arrived in America in 1628; and was governor of Plymouth from 1634 to 1673. He was one of the first settlers at Nanset, or Eastham, in 1644, and lived there until 1663; was a zealous opposer of the Quakers, as heretics, though not a persecutor of them; and was an earnest champion of popular education. In spite of the opposition and clamors of the ignorant, he procured resources for the support of grammar-schools in the colony. He died in Plymouth, Mass., March 29, 1673.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
and on Rhode Island under one government, called the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Then the commonwealth of Rhode Island was established, though the new government did not go into operation until 1647, when the first General Assembly, composed of the collective freemen of the several plantations, met at Portsmouth (May 19) and established a code of laws for carrying on civil government. The charter was confirmed by Cromwell (1655), and a new one was obtained from Charles II. （1663), under which the commonwealth of Rhode Island was governed 180 years. In the war with King Philip (1676) the inhabitants of Rhode Island suffered fearfully. Towns and farmhouses were burned and the people Residence of Governor Coddington. murdered. Providence was laid in ashes. The decisive battle that ended the war was fought on Rhode Island soil. When Sir Edmund Andros, governor of New England, was instructed to take away the colonial charters (1687), he seized that of Rhode Island,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shaftesbury, Earl of (Anthony Ashley Cooper) 1621- (search)
t troops, acted with vigor, served in Cromwell's Parliaments, and was one of the councillors of state. He retired in 1654, and in Parliament was a leader of the opposition to Cromwell's measures. Active in the overthrow of the Second Protectorate, he was one of the commissioners who went to Breda to invite Charles II. to come to England. The grateful King made him governor of the Isle of Wight, chancellor of the exchequer, and one of the privy council. In 1661 he was created Baron Ashley, and was one of the commission for the trial of the regicides, whom he zealously prosecuted. Charles had granted to him and several other favorites the vast domain of Carolina (1663), and he was employed with Locke in framing a scheme of government for it. He was created Earl of Shaftesbury in 1672, and made lord-chancellor, for which he was unfitted. Opposing the government, the King dismissed him (1673) Accused of treason, he fled to Amsterdam, Holland, in 1682, where he died, June 22, 1683.
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