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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Congress, Continental (search)
and division, are two distinct parties, which, at present, count but few deserters. The division is attributed to moral and philosophical causes. The sessions of the Continental Congress were opened at the following times and places: Sept. 5, 1774, Philadelphia; May 10, 1775, ditto; Dec. 20, 1776, Baltimore; March 4, 1777, Philadelphia; Sept. 27, 1777, Lancaster, Pa.; Sept. 30, 1777, York, Pa.; July 2, 1778, Philadelphia; June 30, 1783, Princeton, N. J.; Nov. 26, 1783, Annapolis, Md.; Nov. 1, 1784, Trenton, N. J.; Jan. 11, 1785, New York. This continued to be the place of meeting from that time until the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1788. From 1781 to 1788 Congress met annually on the first Monday in November, which time was fixed by the articles of Confederation (q. v.). The presidents of the Continental Congress were: Name.Where From.When Elected. Peyton RandolphVirginiaSept. 5, 1774. Henry MiddletonSouth CarolinaOct. 2, 1774. Peyton RandolphVirgin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
of Livingston, resigned......March, 1784 Ninth Continental Congress adjourns; 189 days session......June 3, 1784 General Assembly of North Carolina cedes her western lands to the United States on condition of acceptance within two years, April, 1784, but repeals the act......Oct. 22, 1784 Washington makes a tour of the western country to ascertain by what means it could be most effectually bound to the Union......1784 Tenth Continental Congress meets at Trenton, N. J.......Nov. 1, 1784 Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, chosen president of Continental Congress......Nov. 30, 1784 Tenth Continental Congress adjourns; fifty-four days session......Dec. 24, 1784 Eleventh Continental Congress meets at New York......Jan. 11, 1785 [Richard H. Lee, president.] Gen. Henry Knox appointed Secretary of War with added duties of Secretary of Navy......March 8, 1785 Franklin, minister to France, obtains leave to return; Jefferson is appointed......March 10, 1785 Di
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
d Kollock at Chatham......1779 American army winters at Morristown......December, 1779 Five thousand troops under General Clinton drive back the Americans under General Greene at Springfield, burn the town, and then retreat......June 23, 1780 Elias Boudinot, of New Jersey, chosen president of the Continental Congress......Nov. 4, 1782 Continental Congress meets at Princeton......June 30, 1783 New Brunswick incorporated......1784 Continental Congress meets at Trenton......Nov. 1, 1784 William Livingston, David Brearley, William Patterson, and Jonathan Dayton, delegates from New Jersey, sign the Constitution of the United States......Sept. 17, 1787 Constitution of the United States adopted unanimously without amendments by the Assembly of New Jersey......Dec. 18, 1787 General Washington is received by a committee of Congress at Elizabethtown, April 23, and escorted to New York, where he is inaugurated President of the United States......April 30, 1789 Gover
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
unm. 3 Nov. 1836; Thomas, grad. H. C. 1805, a physician, Town Clerk 1827, d. unm. Feb. 1831, a. 46; James, grad. H. C. 1806, a lawyer, Register of Probate for a short period, d. unm., of dysentery, 27 Aug. 1817; George, grad. B. U. 1811, a lawyer, d. unm., of dysentery, 4 Sept. 1817, a. 27. Mary Craigie, bap. in Camb. 7 Dec. 1794, d. 18 Feb. 1811, a. 16. 4. John, s. of Nathan, b. at Western (now Warren) 19 Ap. 1763, grad. D. C. 1783, D. D. at H. C. 1815, was ordained at Brighton 1 Nov. 1784, was dismissed by mutual agreement 31 Oct. 1827, and d. 15 Sept. 1829, a. 66. He m. Hannah Webster of Boston — Ap. 1785, and had Wainwright, b. 4 Feb. 1786; John, b. 22 Ap. 1789; Hannah White, b. 22 Dec. 1790; Henry, b. 31 May 1793; Elizabeth Lanesford, b. 19 Oct. 1794 ; Harriet Vaughn, b. 9 Sept. 1796. Fownell, John, by w. Mary, had Sarah, b.—Aug. 1638. He was prob. the same who. according to Savage, was in Chs., freeman 1645, and d. 19 Mar. 1673, a. 65; his w. Mary d. 25 Jan. 1696
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, F. (search)
unm. 3 Nov. 1836; Thomas, grad. H. C. 1805, a physician, Town Clerk 1827, d. unm. Feb. 1831, a. 46; James, grad. H. C. 1806, a lawyer, Register of Probate for a short period, d. unm., of dysentery, 27 Aug. 1817; George, grad. B. U. 1811, a lawyer, d. unm., of dysentery, 4 Sept. 1817, a. 27. Mary Craigie, bap. in Camb. 7 Dec. 1794, d. 18 Feb. 1811, a. 16. 4. John, s. of Nathan, b. at Western (now Warren) 19 Ap. 1763, grad. D. C. 1783, D. D. at H. C. 1815, was ordained at Brighton 1 Nov. 1784, was dismissed by mutual agreement 31 Oct. 1827, and d. 15 Sept. 1829, a. 66. He m. Hannah Webster of Boston — Ap. 1785, and had Wainwright, b. 4 Feb. 1786; John, b. 22 Ap. 1789; Hannah White, b. 22 Dec. 1790; Henry, b. 31 May 1793; Elizabeth Lanesford, b. 19 Oct. 1794 ; Harriet Vaughn, b. 9 Sept. 1796. Fownell, John, by w. Mary, had Sarah, b.—Aug. 1638. He was prob. the same who. according to Savage, was in Chs., freeman 1645, and d. 19 Mar. 1673, a. 65; his w. Mary d. 25 Jan. 1696