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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts, (search)
as to receive fifty acres of land for each member of his family, and the same for each indentured servant he carried with him. The charter and the government were soon transferred from England to Massachusetts, and a large emigration ensued in 1629-30. Late in 1634, while Dudley was governor, John Endicott, incited by Roger Williams, caused the red cross of St. George to be cut out of the military standard of England used at Salem, because he regarded it as a relic of Anti-Christ, it having binslow1673 to 1681 Thomas Hinkley1681 to 1686 Sir Edmund Andros, governor-general1686 to 1689 Thomas Hinkley1689 to 1692 Massachusetts Bay colony. Name.Term. John Endicott (acting)1629 to 1630 Matthew Cradock (did not serve) John Winthrop1630 to 1634 Thomas Dudley1634 to 1635 John Haynes1635 to 1636 Henry Vane1636 to 1637 John Winthrop1637 to 1640 Thomas Dudley1640 to 1641 Richard Bellingham1641 to 1642 John Winthrop1642 to 1644 governors of the Massachusetts colonies— Conti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mississippi River. (search)
Mississippi River. Indian name Miche-sepe, meaning Great water, or Father of waters ; was first discovered by Europeans with De Soto, in June, 1541, not far from the site of Helena, Ark., it is supposed. De Soto died on its banks. A London physician named Coxe purchased the old patent for Carolina granted to Sir Robert Heath (see State of North Carolina) in 1630, and put forward pretensions to the mouth of the Mississippi, which two armed English vessels were sent to explore. Bienville, exploring the Mississippi at a point some 50 miles from its mouth, unexpectedly encountered one of Coxe's vessels coming up. Assured that this was not the Mississippi, but a dependency of Canada, already occupied by the French, the English commander turned about and left the river; and that point has ever since been known as the English Turn. In 1673 Joliet and Marquette descended the river to a point within three days journey of its mouth. Father Hennepin explored it from the mouth of the Il
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, State of (search)
n Roanoke Island in 1585. It was unsuccessful. Other colonies were sent out by Raleigh, and the last one was never heard of afterwards. No other attempts to settle there were made until after the middle of the seventeenth century. As early as 1609 some colonists from Jamestown seated themselves on the Nansemond, near the Dismal Swamp; and in 1622 Porey, secretary of the Virginia colony, penetrated the country with a few friends to the tide-waters of the Chowan. Early settlements. In 1630 Charles I. granted to Sir Robert Heath, his attorney-general, a patent for a domain south of Virginia, 6° of latitude in width, and extending westward to the Pacific Ocean. Heath did not meet his engagements, and the patent was vacated. In March, 1663, Charles II. granted to eight of his rapacious courtiers a charter for the domain granted to Heath. They had begged it from the King under the pretence of a pious zeal for the propagation of the Gospel among the heathen. These courtiers we
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nowell, increase 1590-1655 (search)
Nowell, increase 1590-1655 Colonist; born in England in 1590; sailed for Massachusetts with John Winthrop in 1630; was commissioner of military affairs in 1632; and secretary of Massachusetts in 1644-49. He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1655.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Orange, Fort (search)
and just below the site of Albany, which he called Castle Island. The spring floods made the place untenable, and in 1617 a new fort was built at the mouth of the Tawasentha ( place of many dead ), or Norman's Kill, on the west side of the river. There a treaty of friendship and alliance was made with the Five Nations, the first ever made between the Indians and Hollanders. The situation of the new fort proving to be inconvenient, a more permanent fortification was built a few miles farther north, and called Fort Orange, in compliment to the Stadtholder, or chief magistrate, of Holland. Some of the Walloons settled there, and held the most friendly relations with the Indians. Near the fort Kilian Van Rensselaer, a wealthy pearl merchant of Amsterdam, purchased from the Indians a large tract of land in 1630, sent over a colony to settle upon it, and formed the Colonie of Rensselaerswyck. A settlement soon grew around Fort Orange, and so the foundations of Albany (q. v.) were laid.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paige, Lucius Robinson 1802-1896 (search)
Paige, Lucius Robinson 1802-1896 Author; born in Hardwick, Mass., March 8, 1802; received an academic education; became a Universalist minister in 1823; retired from pastoral work in 1839. His publications include Universalism defended; History of Cambridge, Mass., 1630-1877; History of Hardwick, Mass., etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 2, 1896.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pavonia. (search)
Pavonia. Michael Pauw, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians (1630) a large tract of land in the present limits of New Jersey, including what are now Jersey City and Hoboken, to which he presently added, by purchase, Staten Island and neighboring districts, and became a patroon. This region was called Pavonia, and one of the ferries to New York City now bears that name.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Penobscot. (search)
Penobscot. The Company of New France, which had purchased Sir W. Alexander's rights to territory in Nova Scotia through Stephen, Lord of La Tour, in 1630, conveyed the territory on the banks of the river St. John to this nobleman in 1635. Rossellon, commander of a French fort in Acadia, sent a French manof-war to Penobscot and took possession of the Plymouth trading-house there, with all its goods. A vessel was sent from Plymouth to recover the property. The French fortified the place, and were so strongly intrenched that the expedition was abandoned. The Plymouth people never afterwards recovered their interest at Penobscot. The first permanent English occupation of the region of the Penobscot—to which the French laid claim—was acquired in 1759, when Governor Pownall, of Massachusetts, with the consent of the legislature, caused a fort to be built on the western bank of the Penobscot (afterwards Fort Knox), near the village of Prospect, which was named Fort Pownall. An
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Saco Bay, settlement of (search)
Saco Bay, settlement of In 1616 Sir Ferdinando Gorges sent out, at his own expense, Richard Vines to make a settlement in New England. On Saco Bay he spent the winter of 1616-17, at a place called Winter Harbor. During that period the pestilence that almost depopulated the country from the Penobscot to Narraganset Bay raged there, and Vines, being a physician, attended the sick Indians with great kindness, which won their gratitude. He and his companions dwelt and slept among the sick in their cabins, but were never touched by the pestilential fever. He made the whole coast a more hospitable place for Englishmen afterwards. He restrained traders from debauching the Indians with rum, and he was the first Englishman who described the White Mountains, for he went to the source of the Saco River in a canoe. In 1630 the Plymouth Company gave Richard Vines and John Oldham each a tract of land on the Saco River, 4 miles wide on the sea, and extending 8 miles inland.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Savage, James 1784-1873 (search)
Savage, James 1784-1873 Historian; born in Boston, Mass., July 13, 1784; graduated at Harvard College in 1803; admitted to the bar in 1807; served in the Massachusetts legislature. His publications include John Winthrop's history of New England from 1630 to 1646, with notes to illustrate the Civil and ecclesiastical concerns, the geography, settlement, and institutions of the country, and the lives and manners of the ancient planters; and Genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692. He died in Boston, Mass., March 8, 1873.
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