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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Polk, James Knox 1795-1849 (search)
erself to our Union, and under these circumstances it was plainly our duty to extend our protection over her citizens and soil. This force was concentrated at Corpus Christi, and remained there until after 1 had received such information from Mexico as rendered it probable, if not certain, that the Mexican government would refuse to receive our envoy. Meantime Texas, by the final action of our Congress, had become an integral part of our Union. The Congress of Texas, by its act of Dec. 19, 1836, had declared the Rio del Norte to be the boundary of that republic; its jurisdiction had been extended and exercised beyond the Nueces. The country between that river and the Del Norte had been represented in the Congress and in the convention of Texas, had thus taken part in the act of annexation itself, and is now included within one of our congressional districts. Our own Congress had, moreover, with great unanimity, by the act approved Dec. 31, 1845, recognized the country beyond
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 9 (search)
63. Captain, 3d La. Engineers, afterwards 97th U. S. Colored Infantry, Sept. 12, 1863. Mustered out, Apr. 6, 1866. Hinckley, Henry Lester. Born at Stockbridge, Mass., Feb. 10, 1841. Corporal, 110th N. Y. Infantry, Aug. 27, 1862. Discharged, Aug. 29, 1863. First Lieutenant, Adjutant, 2d La. Engineers, Corps d'afrique, afterwards 96th U. S. Colored Infantry, Aug. 31, 1863. Captain, July 15, 1865. Mustered out, Jan. 29, 1866. Hodges, Thorndike Deland. Born at Salem, Mass., Dec. 19, 1836. Sergeant, 35th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 19, 1862. Second Lieutenant, Jan. 1, 1863. Captain, 35th U. S. Colored Infantry, May 30, 1863. Brevet Major, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Resigned, Jan. 10, 1866. Holbrook, Silas P. Private, 13th Mass. Infantry, July 16, 1861. Re-enlisted, Jan. 5, 1864, as Private. Transferred, July 14, 1864, to 39th Mass. Infantry. Second Lieutenant, 45th U. S. Colored Infantry, Sept. 6, 1864. Resigned, Apr. 25, 1865. Holmes, Joseph B. Private,
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)
ldren were—Chauncy Ward, b. in Boston, 24 Dec. 1851; Caroline Fowle, b. in West Cambridge, 18 June, 1857, and d. 10 Sept. 1858; Caroline Fowle, b. in West Cambridge, 16 Nov. 1858, and d. 19 Aug. 1859. Alfred Chamberlain died at West Cambridge, 27 June, 1859. Mrs. Chamberlain married at West Cambridge, for her second husband, Daniel R. Stanwood, of Arlington, 25 June, 1866. He died 19 March, 1874. She resides at Arlington. Daniels, Hannah, adult, mulatto, bap. 9 Aug. 1741. James, d. 19 Dec. 1836, a. about 40. John P. had son, d. 15 Feb. 1839, a. 4 wks., and dau. Almira, d. 17 May, 1843, a. 3. See Whittemore (par. 13). (John P. Daniels the father born in Keene, N. H., d. in W. Camb. 9 Dec. 1852, a. 45—g. s.) Davenport, John, who m. Abigail Whittemore, 4 May, 1801, o. c. here 13 Apr. 1806; had Elmira, bap. 13 Apr. 1806, and John, bap. 1 June, 1811. [John the father bought 12 Sept. 1806, of Josiah Wellington, the once famous tavern (which yet stands) on the westerly corner of