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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
ved to pay the annual interest on the certificates of debt by drawing bills of exchange on their commissioners in Paris for coin. How these bills were to be met at maturity was not clear: they were of a very long date, and, before any of them became due, a dollar in coin was worth six in paper; so that the annual interest payable at Paris on a loan certificate became equal to about thirty-six per cent. The anxious deliberations of the committee of congress during more than two months at Yorktown produced only a recommendation, adopted in November, Nov. 22. that the several states should become creditors of the United States by raising for the continental treasury five millions of dollars, in four quarterly instalments; the first payment to be made on the coming New-Year's day, and the whole to bear six per cent interest until the final adjustment of ac- Chap. VII.} 1777. counts, after the confederation should have been ratified. Of thousands of dollars, Massachusetts was rated
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
ion he might choose, be it at Williamsburg or Yorktown. On the fifteenth, he added: I do not think king's ships, I know of no place so proper as Yorktown. Answer, 175. Nothing therefore remained bng Portsmouth, transferred his whole force to Yorktown and Gloucester. Yorktown was then but a smalYorktown was then but a small village on a high bank, where the long peninsula dividing the York from the James river is less thwhich contained the ordnance for the siege of Yorktown. There was no want of information at New Y united armies marched for the investiture of Yorktown, drove every thing on the British side beforems during the night. The fortifications of Yorktown, which were nothing but earthworks freshly th781. Oct. 19 French provided for the siege of Yorktown thirtyseven ships of the line, and the Americtroops. A marble column was to be erected at Yorktown, with emblems of the alliance between the Uniest satisfaction—heard of the capitulation of Yorktown with wild delight. He hoped that it might be
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26: (search)
While the conditions of peace were under consideration, America obtained an avowed friend in the Dutch republic. John Adams had waited more than eight months for an audience of reception, unaided even indirectly by the French ambassador at the Hague, because interference would have pledged France too deeply to the support of the United Chap. XXVI.} 1782. Jan. 9. Provinces, whose complicated form of government promised nothing but embarrassment to an ally. Encouraged by the success at Yorktown, on the ninth of January he presented himself to the president of the states-general, and renewing his formal request for an opportunity of presenting his credentials, demanded a categorical answer which he might transmit to his sovereign. He next went in person to the deputies of the several cities of Holland, following the order of their rank in the confederation, and repeated his demand to each one of them. The attention of Europe was drawn to the adventurous and sturdy diplomatist, wh
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
vice of Madison and others, it was withheld, and one congressional committee was sent to importune the states of the north, another those of the south. It lay in the ideas of Morris to collect the taxes due to the United States by their own officers. The confederation acted only on the several states, and not on persons; yet he obtained authority by a vote of congress to appoint receivers of taxes, and for that office in New York he selected its most gifted statesman. From the siege of Yorktown, Hamilton had repaired to Albany, where he entered upon the study of the law that in summer he might be received as attorney, and in autumn as counsellor, ready meantime if the war should be renewed to take part in its dangers and in its honors. The place, which he accepted with hesitation, was almost a sinecure; but he was instructed by Morris to exert his talents with the New York legislature to forward the views of congress. He had often observed the facility with which the eastern sta
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Romance in history. (search)
doctors of long ago and filing the copies of entries regarding births and deaths with their vital statistics. Old diaries, inventories and letters furnish the personal high lights which enliven the official records. For instance, —a colonel at Valley Forge writes a note to a brother officer asking him to carry a letter to a sweetheart in a far-away home on the Mystic river, referring to the town as That Mystical place where you are going. We find no marriage record and we know he died at Yorktown. We read that Commodore Hull unsuccessfully sought the hand of a daughter of a house in our neighborhood; that the man she loved played her false and that, in spite of all the other love with which she was surrounded, she died of a broken heart. The pathetic appeal of an exiled loyalist pleading for the right to return to his home touches a responsive chord in our hearts now that the smoke of battles has rolled away. These incidents concern my own town, and I might mention others, alth
The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1860., [Electronic resource], Affair in New York. (search)
vessels of the new Virginia Liverpool line. The Pioneer, very appropriately named, was the beginning, the feeble and humble beginning, if you choose, of a great and laudable enterprise. But there must always be a beginning, and even a railroad train, the fastest of man's creation, begins its movement slowly, and warms gradually up to its work. There was a time when the James river could boast quite a handsome fleet of ships, engaged in the European trade, and a house is still standing at Yorktown, on the York river, which was used as an importing house for New York merchants before the Revolution. But both these noble streams have for many years been deserted by foreign shipping, and the coastwise vessels that are now numerous in our waters only come to bear off to the great commercial centres of collection and distribution the produce that is brought to our shores by the railroads and public works, built at a heavy cost exclusively by ourselves, and to bring us goods which it woul
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
Schr. Emma Jane, Phillips, for Richmond, cl'd at Baltimore 18th inst. Schr. M. H. Read, Kelley, from Norfolk for New Bedford, arrived at New York 18th inst. Schr. Sailie Mears (of Yorktown, Va.), Richardson, Antigua, Dec. 23, via St. Martins 28th, with salt, arrived at New York 18th inst. Schr. Frances, O'Dounell, for Norfolk, cleared at New York 19th inst. Schrs. Crenshaw, Moss, Richmond; S. C. Jones, Bedell, Norfolk; and Margaret, Henson, City Point, arrived at do. same day. Schr. Problem, Jones, from Richmond, arrived at Norfolk 18th inst. Ocean Breeze, Leighton, from Alexandria, arrived at Gibraltar 21st ult. New York, Cooper, from Richmond, arrived at Marseilles 27th ult. Disaseer. Br. bark Jane Brown, Broose, 8 days from Richmond, Va., bound to Liverpool, with a cargo of wheat and flour, experienced a heavy gale on the 26th Dec., was thrown on her beam ends and became very leaky, and was obliged to bear up for Bermuda, where she arrived
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sent off. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Convention — Secession — Weather, &c. Williamsburg Jan. 21, 1861. A meeting was held here on last Saturday night, irrespective of party, in which resolutions favoring immediate secession were passed. Gen. John Tyler, T. B. Cosnabon, Esqand ColsJ. D. Munford and Robert T. Armistead entertained the meeting by soul-stirring addresses in favor of disunion and Southern rights. W. R. C. Douglas, Esq.delivered a very eloquent and conservative address, opposed to immediate secession. He thinks it requires time only to restore peace and tranquility to the country. A Convention will be held at Yorktown on to-day, (the 21st,) composed of delegates from this legislative district, in which they will nominate some one to represent the voice of the people in said district, in the Convention to be held at Richmond February 13th, 1861. The weather is remarkably cold. Farmers about here doing little or nothing upon their farms. O.
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sick of Freedom. (search)
The Steamship Yorktown, Capt. Parrish, having been laid up for repairs, is now on the route between this city and New York. The "Yorktown" having been thoroughly repaired, painted, &c., is now in excellent order. The attention of the traveling public is respectfully requested to this cheap and expeditious route to New York, leaving Richmond Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, via Norfolk.
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], West point Cadets appointed. (search)
--The statue of that old Revolutionary hero and patriot, Governor Thomas Nelson, ordered by the Legislature of Virginia, to be placed with his compatriots on the Washington Monument, may be expected here in a few months. It will cost about $4,500. Mr. Randolph Rogers, who has the contract for finishing the remaining figures, is now at Rome, busily engaged in the performance of that undertaking. No doubt, during the summer most of them will have been completed Thomas Nelson, Jr., who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born at York, December 26, 1738, was a member of the Continental Congress, Governor of this State, &c.; and at the siege of Yorktown by the American army, under Washington, had command of the first battery which opened upon the town. The first object to which he directed his attention was his own house, because filled with British officers. The marks of cannon balls can be seen to this day. History awards him a prominent niche in the temple of Fame.
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