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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ogilvie, John 1722-1774 (search)
Ogilvie, John 1722-1774 Clergyman; born in New York City in 1722; graduated at Yale in 1748; missionary to the Indians in 1749; chaplain to the Royal American Regiment during the French and Indian War; assistant minister of Trinity Church, New York City, in 1764. He died in New York City, Nov. 26, 1774.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
lethorpe makes a sudden descent upon St. Augustine, but captures only a few Spaniards......March 9, 1743 Noted Indian chief Secoffee, with his tribe, settles in Alachua, about the centre of Florida; founder of the Seminole nation......1750 Don Alonzo Fernandez de Herrera appointed governor of Florida......1755 Treaty ceding east and west Florida to Great Britain in exchange for Havana and the west part of Cuba ratified......Feb. 10, 1763 Temporary command of province given to Major Ogilvie......1763 By proclamation, King of Great Britain divides Florida into two provinces, east and west, by the Apalachicola River; west Florida extending to the Mississippi and north from Gulf to lat. 31°......Oct. 7, 1763 Gen. James Grant appointed first English governor of east Florida......1763 Pensacola laid out as a city, with streets at right angles, making squares 400 by 200 feet......1763 Dennis Rolle, obtaining from the British government a grant of 40,000 acres, embarks
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
ved his family from Dumfries to Fauquier county during the revolutionary war, in which he served with distinction as a captain of infantry. The ancestors of this patriot came over with Lord Baltimore; one of his grandsons, Col. George W. Brent, was a gallant Confederate soldier. After the early death of his father, General Hunton was reared by his devoted mother, and aided by his uncle, the distinguished Charles Hunton, for four years president of the State senate, he studied under the Rev. John Ogilvie, and subsequently he taught school for three years, at the same time pursuing the study of law under the guidance of the late Judge John Webb Taylor. Admitted to the bar in 1843, he began practice at Brentsville, the county seat of Prince William county. In this period his military inclinations, doubtless inherited from his father, were manifested. by his acceptance of the colonelcy of the Prince William regiment, and four years later of the rank of general, commanding the brigade