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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington and Lee University , (search)
Washington and Lee University,
An educational institution in Lexington, Va. The nucleus of it was established in 1749 under the name of Augusta Academy, by which it was known till the Revolutionary War began, when its name was changed to Liberty Hall Academy.
In 1780 the institution was removed to Lexington, when, in 1796, General Washington gave it 100 shares of stock in the James River Canal Company, and the name was changed to Washington College, and on the death of Gen. Robert E. Lee, in 1870, the name was again changed to its present one.
Instruction was suspended during the Civil War; and the institution was reorganized in 1865 under the presidency of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
It reported in 1900: Professors and instructors, twenty-six; students, 220; volumes in the library, 40,000; productive funds, $626,000; grounds and buildings valued at $200,000; income, $45,000; acting president, H. St. G. Tucker.
Washington and the Newburg address
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Watson , Sir Brook 1735 - (search)
Watson, Sir Brook 1735-
Military officer; born in Plymouth, England, Feb. 7, 1735; entered the naval service early in life, but while bathing in the sea at Havana in 1749 a shark bit off his right leg below the knee, and he abandoned the sea and entered upon mercantile business.
He was with Colonel Monckton in Nova Scotia in 1755, and was at the siege of Louisburg in 1758, having in charge Wolfe's division, as commissary.
In 1759 he settled as a merchant in London, and afterwards in Montreal.
Just before the Revolutionary War he visited several of the colonies, with false professions of political friendship for them, as a Whig.
A friend of Sir Guy Carleton, he was made his commissary-general in America in 1782, and from 1784 to 1793 he was member of Parliament for London.
He was sheriff of London and Middlesex, and in 1796 was lord mayor.
For his services in America, Parliament voted his wife an annuity of $2,000 for life.
From 1798 to 1806 he was commissary-general of En
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webster , Pelatiah 1725 -1795 (search)
Webster, Pelatiah 1725-1795
Political economist; born in Lebanon, Conn., in 1725; graduated at Yale College in 1746; took a course in theology, and was pastor in Greenwich, Mass., in 1748-49; removed to Philadelphia, where he engaged in business.
During the Revolutionary War he was a stanch patriot; was made a prisoner by the British in 1788; confined in the city jail for 132 days; and had a part of his property confiscated.
He was the author of Essays on free-trade and finance; Dissertation on the political Union and Constitution of the thirteen United States of North America; Reasons for repealing the act of the legislature which took away the charter of the Bank of North America; and Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects, published during the American War.
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in September, 1795.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williams , Otho Holland 1749 - (search)
Williams, Otho Holland 1749-
Military officer: born in Prince George county, Md., in March, 1749; was left an orphan at twelve years of age; appointed lieutenant of a rifle company at the beginning of the Revolution, he marched to the Continen-
Otho Holland Williams. tal camp at Cambridge; and in 1776 was appointed major of a new rifle regiment, which formed part of the garrison of Fort Washington, New York, when it was captured.
He gallantly opposed the Hessian column, but was wounded and made prisoner.
Being soon exchanged, he was made colonel of the 6th Maryland Regiment, with which he accompanied De Kalb to South Carolina; and when Gates took command of the Southern Army Colonel Williams was made adjutant-general.
In the battle near Camden he gained great distinction for coolness and bravery, and performed efficient service during Greene's famous retreat, as commander of a light corps that formed the rear-guard.
At the battle at Guilford Court-house he was Greene's seco