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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parsons, Theophilus 1750-1813 (search)
Parsons, Theophilus 1750-1813 Jurist; born in Byfield, Mass., Feb. 24, 1750; graduated at Harvard College in 1769; admitted to the bar in 1774; and was at the head of a grammar-school in Falmouth (now Portland), Me., when it was destroyed. He began practice in Newburyport in 1777, and in 1780 was one of the principal framers of the State constitution of Massachusetts. He removed to Boston in 1800, where, until his death, he was regarded as the brightest of the legal lights of New England. He had been a zealous advocate of the national Constitution in 1788, and in 1806 was made chiefjustice of Massachusetts. His decisions are embraced in six volumes. His memory was wonderful, and he was eloquent as a speaker. His Opinions were published in New York in 1836, under the title of Commentaries on American law. He died in Boston, Oct. 30. 1813. Lawyer; born in Newburyport, Mass., May 17, 1797; graduated at Harvard College in 1815; studied law; was Professor of Law in Harvar
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paterson, William 1745-1806 (search)
Paterson, William 1745-1806 Jurist; born at sea in 1745; graduated at Princeton in 1763; admitted to the bar in 1769; attorney-general for New Jersey in 1776; elected to the Continental Congress in 1780; to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; elected United States Senator in 1789; governor of New Jersey, 1791; appointed justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1793. He died in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1806.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennymite and Yankee War. (search)
Pennymite and Yankee War. Trouble began in Wyoming Valley between Connecticut settlers under the auspices of the Susquehanna Company and the Pennsylvanians in 1769, when the former made a second attempt to clear the way for planting a colony in that region. In 1768 the proprietary of Pennsylvania purchased of the Six Nations the whole Wyoming Valley, and leased it for seven years to three Pennsylvanians, who built a fortified trading-house there. In February, 1769, forty pioneers of the Susquehanna Company entered the Wyoming Valley and invested the block-house, garrisoned by ten men, who gave Governor Penn notice of the situation. Three of the Connecticut men were lured into the blockhouse under pretence of making an adjustment of difficulties, and were seized by the sheriff and taken to jail at Easton. Other immigrants flocked in from Connecticut, and the sheriff called upon the posse of the county to assist in their arrest. The Connecticut people also had built a block-
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth 1746-1825 (search)
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth 1746-1825 Statesman; born in Charleston, S. C., Feb. 25, 1746; son of Chief-Justice Charles Pinckney; educated in England: read law in London: passed nine months in a military academy in France, and returning in 1769 began the practice of law. He was a member of the first Provincial Congress of South Carolina, and was made colonel of a regiment. After the defence of Fort Sullivan he joined the army in the North, and was aide to Washington in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. He was engaged in the unsuccessful expedition into Florida in 1778, and the next year presided over the State Senate of South Carolina. On the surrender of Charleston (May, 1780), he was made a prisoner, and suffered cruel treatment until exchanged early in 1782. He was made brigadier-general in November, 1783, and in 1787 was a member of the convention that framed the national Constitution. In July, 1796, he was appointed minister to the French Republic, but the Fre
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pontiac, (search)
r a simultaneous attack to be made along the whole frontier of Pennsylvania and Virginia. The conspiracy was unsuspected until it was ripe and the first blow was struck, in June, 1763. English traders scattered through the frontier regions were plundered and slain. At almost the same instant they attacked all of the English outposts taken from the French, and made themselves masters of nine of them, massacring or dispersing the garrisons. Forts Pitt, Niagara, and Detroit were saved. Colonel Bouquet saved Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg); Niagara was not attacked; and Detroit, after a long siege by Pontiac in person, was relieved by Colonel Bradstreet in 1764. The Indians were speedily subdued, but Pontiac remained hostile until his death in Cahokia, Ill., in 1769. He was an able sachem and warrior, and, like King Philip, was doubtless moved by patriotic impulses; for the flow of emigration over the mountains threatened his race with displacement if not with destruction. See Detroit.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Posey, Thomas 1750- (search)
Posey, Thomas 1750- Military officer; born in Virginia, July 9, 1750; removed to western Virginia in 1769, and was quartermaster to Lewis's division in Dunmore's army in 1774. He raised a company in Virginia, and assisted in the defeat of Dunmore at Gwyn's Island. He joined Washington, in New Jersey, early in 1777; was transferred to Morgan's rifle regiment, and with it did valuable service on Bemis's Heights and at Saratoga. He commanded the regiment in the spring of 1778, and was finally placed in command of a battalion of Febiger's regiment, under Wayne, participating in the capture of Stony Point in July, 1779, where he was one of the first to enter the works. Colonel Posey was at the surrender of Yorktown, and was afterwards with Wayne until the evacuation of Savannah, in 1782. In February, 1793, he was made brigadier-general; settled in Kentucky; became State Senator and lieutenant-governor; was major-general of Kentucky levies in 1809; and United States Senator in 181
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
onded to in England. In December, 1769, South Carolina sent £ 10,500 currency to London for the society for supporting the Bill of Rights, that the liberties of Great Britain and America might alike be protected, wrote members of the South Carolina Assembly. In Ireland, the dispute with America aroused Grattan, and he began his splendid career at about this time. The English toilers in the manufacturing districts longed to enjoy the abundance and freedom which they heard of in America; and 1769 is marked by the establishment, in England, of the system of public meetings to discuss subjects of importance to free-born Englishmen. The press, too, spoke out boldly at that time. Can you conceive, wrote the yet mysterious Junius to the King, that the people of this country will long submit to be governed by so flexible a House of Commons? The oppressed people of Ireland give you every day fresh marks of their resentment. The colonists left their native land for freedom and found it in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rittenhouse, David 1732-1796 (search)
farm, David had mastered Newton's Principia and independently discovered the methods of fluxions before he was nineteen years of age. He early became a skilful mechanic, and, at the age of twenty-three, planned and constructed an orrery, which was purchased by Princeton College. He afterwards constructed a larger and more perfect one for the University of Pennsylvania. In 1763 he was employed in determining the Mason and Dixon's line (q. v.), and afterwards fixed other State boundaries. In 1769 the American Philo- David Rittenhouse. sophical Society appointed him to observe the transit of Venus at Philadelphia. He erected a temporary observatory for the purpose on the Walnut Street front of the State-house. It is said that the emotion of Rittenhouse was so great at the apparent contact at the time of the transit that he fainted. In Philadelphia Rittenhouse continued his manufacture of clocks and mathematical instruments several years. From 1777 to 1779 he was treasurer of Pen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), San Diego, (search)
San Diego, A city and county seat of San Diego county, Cal.; on San Diego Bay, which gives it importance as a port of entry, and ranks as the second bay on the Pacific coast for commercial purposes, San Francisco being the first. Cabrillo discovered the bay in 1542, and Father Junifero Serra made the first settlement here when, in 1769, he established the mission of San Diego, the earliest of the celebrated California missions. The present city was laid out on the magnificent water front in 1867.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Scammel, Alexander 1747-1781 (search)
Scammel, Alexander 1747-1781 Military officer; born in Mendon (now Milford), Mass., March 24, 1747; graduated at Harvard College in 1769; taught school, practised surveying, and became proprietor of the town of Shapleigh, Me. In 1775 he was studying law with General Sullivan, when he left his books and joined the army at Cambridge as Sullivan's brigade-major. He was with him in the battle of Long Island, and of Trenton and Princeton; was especially distinguished at Saratoga; and from 1778 to 1781 was adjutant-general of the army. He commanded a regiment of light infantry in the siege of Yorktown, where he was surprised, and surrendered, but was so badly wounded that he died in Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 6, 1781.
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