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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartram , William , 1739 -1823 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bigelow , Timothy , 1739 -1790 (search)
Bigelow, Timothy, 1739-1790
Military officer; born in Woreester, Mass., Aug. 12, 1739; was a blacksmith and a zealous patriot; member of the Provincial Congress; led minute-men to Cambridge; and accompanied Arnold in his notable expedition to Quebec in 1775, where he was made a prisoner.
As colonel, he assisted in the capture of Burgoyne, and was active in some of the stirring scenes of the war afterwards.
Colonel Bigelow was in charge of the Springfield Arsenal after the war, and was one of the original grantees of Montpelier, Vt. He died in Woreester, Mass., March 31, 1790.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bland , Theodoric , 1742 -1790 (search)
Bland, Theodoric, 1742-1790
Military officer; born in Prince George county, Va., in 1742; was, by his maternal side, fourth in descent from Pocahontas (q. v.), his mother being Jane Rolfe.
John Randolph was his nephew.
He received the degree of M. D. at Edinburgh, returned home in 1764, and practised medicine.
Bland led volunteers in opposing Governor Dunmore, and published some bitter letters against that officer over the signature of Cassius.
He became captain of the 1st Troop of Virginia cavalry, and joined the main Continental army as lieutenant-colonel in 1777.
Brave, vigilant, and judicious, he was intrusted with the command of Burgoyne's captive troops at Albemarle Barracks in Virginia; and was member of the Continental Congress in 1780-83.
In the legislature and in the convention of his State he opposed the adoption of the national Constitution; but represented Virginia in the first Congress held under it, dying while it was in session.
Colonel Bland was a poet as w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blount , William , 1744 -1800 (search)
Blount, William, 1744-1800
Statesman; born in North Carolina, in 1744; was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782-83, 1786, and 1787; and was a member of the convention that framed the national Constitution.
In 1790 he was appointed governor of the territory south of the Ohio.
(See Northwestern Territory.) He was president of the convention that formed the State of Tennessee in 1796, and was chosen the first United States Senator from the new State.
Blount was impeached in 1797 by the House of Representatives, charged with having intrigued, while territorial governor, to transfer New Orleans and neighboring districts (then belonging to Spain) to Great Britain by means of a joint expedition of Englishmen and Creek and Cherokee Indians.
He was expelled from the Senate, and the process was discontinued in the House.
His popularity in Tennessee was increased by these proceedings, and he became, by the voice of the people, a State Senator and president of that body.
He di
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bowdoin , James , 1727 -1790 (search)
Bowdoin, James, 1727-1790
Statesman; born in Boston, Aug. 8, 1727; was a descendant of Pierre Bowdoin, a Huguenot who fled to America from persecution in France.
He graduated at Harvard in 1745, and became a member of the General Court, a Senator of Massachusetts, and a councillor.
He espoused the cause of the colonists, was president of the Massachusetts Council in 1775, and was chosen president of the convention that framed the State constitution.
He succeeded Hancock as governor.
By vigorous measures he suppressed the rebellion led by Daniel Shays (q. v.). He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 6, 1790.
His son James, born Sept. 22, 1752; died Oct. 11, 1811; also graduated at Harvard (1771), and afterwards spent a year at Oxford.
He was minister to Spain from 1805 to 1808; and while in Paris he purchased an extensive library, philosophical apparatus, and a collection of paintings, which, with a fine cabinet of minerals, he left at his death to Bowdoin College, so named in honor o
Bowie, James, 1790-
Military officer; born in Burke county, Ga., about 1790; took an active part in the Texas revolution, and in January, 1836, was ordered to San Antonio de Bexar, where he joined Colonels Travis and Crockett, and was killed with then at the taking of the Alamo (q. v.), March 6, 1836.
He was inventor of the Bowie knife.
Bowie, James, 1790-
Military officer; born in Burke county, Ga., about 1790; took an active part in the Texas revolution, and in January, 1836, was ordered to San Antonio de Bexar, where he joined Colonels Travis and Crockett, and was killed with then at the taking of the Alamo (q. v.), March 6, 1836.
He was inventor of the Bowie knife.
Budget,
A term applied to the English Chancellor of Exchequer's annual statement of the finances of the country, the documents having been formerly presented in a leather bag. In the United States the Secretary of the Treasury has made an annual report to Congress of receipts and expenditures of the government since 1790.
In 1789 the House of Representatives appointed a committee to see that the government was supplied with sufficient revenues, and to devise ways and means for obtaining it. whence the name of Ways and means committee.
In 1865 the duties of this committee had become excessive, and a committee of appropriations was appointed to share the work.
Estimates for appropriations are prepared by the heads of the several departments and bureaus of the public service for the fiscal year ending June 30, but are often reduced by the House.
No appropriations can be made for purposes not sanctioned by the Constitution.
See appropriations, congressional.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke , Edmund , 1730 -1797 (search)
Cannon,
In the United States, were cast at Lynn, Mass., by Henry Leonard, in 1647, and at Orr's foundry, Bridgewater, 1648.
In 1735 the Hope Furnace was established in Rhode Island, where six heavy cannon, ordered by the State, were cast in 1775.
The heaviest guns used at this time were 18-pounders.
William Denning makes wrought-iron cannon of staves bound together with wrought-iron bands, and boxed and breeched, 1790.
Colonel Bomford, of the United States ordnance department, invents a cannon called the columbiad, a long-chambered piece for projecting solid shot and shell with a heavy charge of powder, 1812.
West Point foundry established under special patronage of the government, 1817.
First contract of Gouverneur Kemble, president, for the West Point Foundry Association, for thirty-two 42-pounders, long guns, July 11, 1820.
First gun rifled in America at the South Boston Iron Company's foundry, 1834.
Cyrus Alger patents and makes the first malleable iron gu