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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
read before the court-house in Halifax by Cornelius Harnett......Aug. 1, 1776 Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, and John Penn, for North Carolina, sign the Declaration of Independence......Aug. 2, 1776 A congress chosen by election assembles at Halifax, Nov. 12, 1776, frames a constitution for North Carolina not submitted to the people, elects Richard Caswell governor by ordinance, and completes its labors......Dec. 18, 1776. Articles of confederation ratified by North Carolina......April 5, 1778 John Penn, Cornelius Harnett, and John Williams sign the articles of confederation on the part of North Carolina......July 21, 1778 Four hundred North Carolina Whigs under Col. Francis Locke attack a camp of Tories under Lieut.-Col. John Moore, and rout them at Ramsour's Mill, near Lincolnton......June 20, 1780 Battle of Charlotte......Sept. 26, 1780 General Greene successfully conducts his retreat across North Carolina from Cowpens to the river Dan, a distance of 230 miles,
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
he families of the citizens generally wanting the room in their respective houses rendered it difficult to obtain so many quarters as were necessary for so great a number, and extended the limits of the parole very considerably. Heath's Memoirs, p. 134 Gen. Burgoyne had quarters assigned to him in the Borland House, Gen. Riedesel in the Lechmere (or Sewall) House, and others elsewhere. The soldiers occupied barracks on Prospect and Winter Hills. Between 11 and 12 o'clock on the 5th of April, 1778, General Burgoyne left Cambridge for Rhode Island; and on the 15th a division of the Convention troops marched for Rutland, under escort of a detachment of militia, commanded by Major Read. Ibid., pp. 161, 162. The remainder of the Convention troops marched for Virginia, on the 10th and 11th of November, 1778, Ibid., p. 198. after having been prisoners of war somewhat more than a year. During their continuance in and around Cambridge, vexatious collisions were of frequent occurr
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
Sukey, his wid., d. at Neponset, 1 Feb. 1855, a. 70. (See Locke Book, 162.) 10. Samuel, a son of Samuel (6), bap. 5 Apr. 1778, First Parish —m. Polly Downing of Lexington, 1 June, 1805. Samuel, Jr., and w. Polly O. C. 3 Aug. 1806. Had Samuel,y, 1777. Samuel (6) who o. c. Camb. First Parish 21 Apr. 1776, had Samuel, bap. there 27 Apr. 1776; and Samuel, bap. 5 Apr. 1778. Benjamin (13) and wife Mary were adm. Camb. First ch. 29 Dec. 1776; had Mary, bap. First Parish 6 Jan. 1777. See Hiomas, m. Elizabeth Melinda Peirce, 24 Nov. 1836. Rand, Thomas, late of Charlestown—had Jacob, b. 30 Mar., bap. here 5 Apr. 1778. Elizabeth, and Richard Loring, both of Camb., m. 9 Nov. 1780—fee a silver dollar. Rebecca, and Jabez Frothingham, o93. 19. John, same as (6), had wife——, adm. to ch. here 12 Nov. 1775, and had John, bap. 14 Jan. 1776; Reuben, bap. 5 Apr. 1778 (the father of Charlestown); William, bap. 25 Mar. 1781; Molly, bap.—Nov. 1783, prob. Miss Mary, d. 14 Sept. 180