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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
he States for their quotas of $15,000,000 for the year, and $6,000,000 annually for eighteen years to follow as a sinking-fundJan. 2, 1779 Vincennes, Ind., captured by the British Jan., 1779 British under General McLane take possession of Castine, Me Jan. 12, 1779 British under Major Gardiner driven from Port Royal Island by General Moultrie Feb. 3, 1779 Franklin commissioned sole minister plenipotentiary to France, and Adams recalled Feb., 1779 Battle of Kettle Creek, Ga., American vda May, 1781 Cornwallis joins Arnold at Petersburg, Va. May 20, 1781 Augusta, Ga., taken by Colonel Clark, Sept. 14, 1780; retaken by British, Sept. 17, 1780; capitulates to Americans June 5, 1781 General Wadsworth captured, and imprisoned at Castine, Me June 18, 1781 British abandon Fort Ninety-six June 21, 1781 Jonas Fay, Ira Allen, and Bazaleel Woodward appointed to represent the cause of Vermont in the Continental Congress June 22, 1781 General Lafayette attacks Cornwallis, near Green
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherbrooke, Sir John Coape 1760-1830 (search)
bout 1760; became lieutenant-general in the British army in 1811. Early in July, 1814, Commodore Hardy sailed secretly from Halifax, with a considerable land and naval force, and captured Eastport, Me., without much opposition. This easy conquest encouraged the British to attempt the seizure of the whole region between Passamaquoddy Bay and the Penobscot River. A strong squadron, under Admiral Griffith, bearing about 4,000 troops, led by Sherbrooke, then governor of Nova Scotia, captured Castine, on Penobscot Bay, and also Belfast, and went up the Penobscot River to Hampden, a few miles below Bangor, to capture or destroy the American corvette John Adams, which, caught in that stream, had gone up so far to escape from the British. The militia, called to defend Hampden and the Adams, fled when the British approached, and the object of the latter was accomplished. Captain Morris, commander of the Adams, burned her to prevent her falling into the hands of the British. The latter
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
McLane and 900 troops take possession of the Peninsula of Major Biguyduce (now Castine), begin a fort, and station three sloops-of-war under Captain Mowatt......Jan.....Feb. 17, 1781 General Wadsworth captured at Thomaston and imprisoned at Castine, Feb. 18; escapes......June 18, 1781 Land office is opened at the seat of gtnam, surrenders to a British force from Halifax......July 11, 1814 Fort at Castine destroyed by its garrison on the approach of a British fleet from Halifax.....aying surrender, the British threaten vengeance against the place and sail for Castine......Sept. 1-7, 1814 British force under Sherwood and Griffiths land at Bucritish sloop from Halifax, with a cargo invoiced at $40,000, on her passage to Castine is captured and carried into Camden......November, 1814 General court appoie treaty of Ghent, Dec. 24, 1814......Feb. 22, 1815 British troops evacuate Castine......April 25, 1815 Between 10,000 and 15,000 inhabitants emigrate to Ohio.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wadsworth, Peleg 1748-1829 (search)
Wadsworth, Peleg 1748-1829 Military officer; born in Duxbury, Mass., May 6, 1748; graduated at Harvard College in 1769. As captain of minute-men, he joined the army gathering around Boston in the spring of 1775; became aide to General Ward; and afterwards adjutant-general for Massachusetts. He was in the battle of Long Island: and in 1777 was made brigadiergeneral of militia, serving, in 1779, as second in command in the Penobscot expedition, where he was taken prisoner. In February, 1781, he was captured and confined in the fort at Castine, whence he escaped in June. After the war he engaged in business in Portland and in surveying, and in 1792 he was elected a State Senator. From 1792 to 1806 he was a member of Congress. He died in Hiram, Me., Nov. 18, 1829.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williams, Edward P. 1833- (search)
Williams, Edward P. 1833- Naval officer; born in Castine, Me., Feb. 26, 1833; graduated at the United States Naval Academy, June 10, 1853; promoted lieutenant, Sept. 16, 1855, and lieutenant-commander in July, 1862; was one of the volunteers under Admiral Dahlgren to attack Fort Sumter. During that action, on the night of Sept. 8, 1863, he commanded the sailors and marines in the first division of boats; was taken prisoner and held in Columbia, S. C., for a year, till exchanged; promoted commander in July, 1866. He was placed in command of the steamer Oneida in the Asiatic fleet. On Jan. 24, 1870, he sailed from Yokohama, and at 6.30 P. M. his vessel collided with the English mailsteamer Bombay in Tokio Bay and sank in a few minutes. Twenty-two officers, including Williams, and 115 men were lost.
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
intree, and Wellesley. These engines are also in use in foreign water-works, as for instance at St. Petersburg, Honolulu, and Sydney. The new United States Navy is practically fitted out with Blake pumps, a partial list including the following vessels: Columbia, New York, Iowa, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Newark, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Massachusetts, Indiana, Maine, Puritan, Miantonomoh, Monadnock, Terror, Amphitrite, Katahdin, Detroit, Montgomery, Marblehead, Yorktown, Dolphin, Machias, Castine, Petrel, Vesuvius, and many others. Briefly, the thousands of patterns cover pumps for handling any fluid or semi-fluid or liquor, whether acid or alkali, under all conditions, from the lightest pressure up to twenty-five thousand pounds per square inch; and similarly any gas or vapor under vacuum or various degrees of compression,—all these machines being driven directly by steam, air, or water pressure, or indirectly by steam or gas engines, electric motors, water wheels, or other sour
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
p. 1837. Walter the f. grad. H. C. 1771, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army, afterwards practised medicine in Chelmsford, and d. 29 Nov. 1782; his w. Lucretia d. here, and was buried 2 Mar. 1834, a. 77. 17. John, s. of Jonathan (11), m. Lydia, dau. of Richard Dana, and sister to Chief Justice Dana, 7 Dec. 1783, and had Harriet, b. 20 Sept. 1784, d. unm. 25 Jan. 1817; Amelia, b. 13 Mar. 1786, d. unm. at Medf. 17 July 1872; Elizabeth Cotton, b. 8 Oct. 1787, m. Moses S. Judkins of Castine 6 Mar. 1808, and Charles P. Phelps of Hadley 5 Aug. 1833; Edmund Trowbridge, b. 15 May 1789; a son, b. and d. 9 Mar. 1791; Frances Marion, b. 2 Oct. 1792, m. Thomas Gibson of Leominster 28 Mar. 1815; Elmira, b. 3 June 1794, m.. Reuben Parker, and d. 10 Oct. 1857; Mary Augusta, b. 21 Oct. 1798, d. unm. at Medf. 13 Mar. 1869. John the f. grad. H. C. 1772, was an officer in the Revolutionary Army, attained the rank of Major, res. for a time in Medf. but returned here, and d. 16 Feb. 1839;
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, H. (search)
p. 1837. Walter the f. grad. H. C. 1771, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army, afterwards practised medicine in Chelmsford, and d. 29 Nov. 1782; his w. Lucretia d. here, and was buried 2 Mar. 1834, a. 77. 17. John, s. of Jonathan (11), m. Lydia, dau. of Richard Dana, and sister to Chief Justice Dana, 7 Dec. 1783, and had Harriet, b. 20 Sept. 1784, d. unm. 25 Jan. 1817; Amelia, b. 13 Mar. 1786, d. unm. at Medf. 17 July 1872; Elizabeth Cotton, b. 8 Oct. 1787, m. Moses S. Judkins of Castine 6 Mar. 1808, and Charles P. Phelps of Hadley 5 Aug. 1833; Edmund Trowbridge, b. 15 May 1789; a son, b. and d. 9 Mar. 1791; Frances Marion, b. 2 Oct. 1792, m. Thomas Gibson of Leominster 28 Mar. 1815; Elmira, b. 3 June 1794, m.. Reuben Parker, and d. 10 Oct. 1857; Mary Augusta, b. 21 Oct. 1798, d. unm. at Medf. 13 Mar. 1869. John the f. grad. H. C. 1772, was an officer in the Revolutionary Army, attained the rank of Major, res. for a time in Medf. but returned here, and d. 16 Feb. 1839;
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
, 2d U. S. Artillery, July 1, 1835. Second Lieutenant, Sept. 10, 1835. Resigned, May 31, 1836. Captain, 2d U. S. Cavalry, Mar. 3, 1855. Transferred to 5th U. S. Cavalry, Aug. 3, 1861. Major, 2d U. S. Cavalry, July 17, 1862. Dismissed, Nov. 5, 1863. Reinstated, Aug. 2, 1866, as Major, 3d U. S. Cavalry, to rank from July 17, 1862. Lieut. Colonel, 6th U. S. Cavalry, May 6, 1869. Transferred to the list of supernumeraries, Dec. 15, 1870. Mustered out of service, Jan. 1, 1871. Died at Castine, Me., Jan. 8, 1890. Whitman, Edmund Burke. Born in Massachusetts. Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, July 18, 1862. Brevet Major and Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Mustered out, Aug. 20, 1868. Died, Sept. 2, 1883. Whitney, John. Born in Massachusetts. Sergeant, 2d Ohio Infantry, Apr. 17, 1861, to Aug. 9, 1861. Second Lieutenant, 3d U. S. Infantry, Aug. 5, 1861. First Lieutenant, Feb. 11, 1863. Resigned, Apr. 25, 1865. Captain, 8th Veteran Vo
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, Report of the Committee on Necrology of the Somerville Historical Society. (search)
of Aquila Chase, and thus in family relations with Salmon P. Chase and other distinguished men. Mr. Chase came to Boston in 1850, and in 1857 moved to Somerville. He served as a member of the first Board of Aldermen, representing Ward 2. He was elected to the School Board in 1874, and served four years. His business was that of a distiller, at first with the Boston firm of Ezra Trull & Co., and later under his own name in Somerville. In 1850 Mr. Chase married Miss Mary A. Hoxie, of Castine, Me. The first Mrs. Chase lived to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her wedding day, dying in 1900. In May, 1904, Mr. Chase married Miss Emmeline May Grimes, who survives him. Five children are left: Charles Henry, Washington Irving, Dr. Daniel E., Jr., Mrs. Mary Ella Arnold, all of Somerville, and Mrs. Albert C. Robinson, of Reading. Mr. Chase was prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity and the Odd Fellows. He was a member, also, of the Order of the Eastern Star, of the W
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