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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cradock , Matthew 1641 (search)
Cradock, Matthew -1641
English merchant; chosen the first governor of the Massachusetts Company, who founded the Massachusetts Bay colony.
He never came to America, but was a munificent supporter of the colony during its early struggles.
He was a member of the celebrated Long Parliament, and died in London, May 27, 1641.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Folger , Peter 1617 -1690 (search)
Folger, Peter 1617-1690
Pioneer; born in England in 1617; emigrated to America with his father in 1635; settled in Martha's Vineyard in 1641; became a Baptist minister and was one of the commissioners to lay out Nantucket, receiving one-half of the land for his services as surveyor and interpreter.
In his poem entitled A Looking-glass of the times; or, the former spirit of New England revived in this generation, he pleaded for liberty of conscience and toleration of all sects, even the Quakers and Anabaptists.
He died in Nantucket, Mass., in 1690.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorton , Samuel 1600 -1677 (search)
Gorton, Samuel 1600-1677
Clergyman; born in England about 1600; was a clothier in London, and embarked for Boston in 1636, where he soon became entangled in teleological disputes and removed to Plymouth.
There he preached such heterodox doctrines that he was banished as a heretic in the winter of 1637-38.
With a few followers he went to Rhode Island, where he was publicly whipped for calling the magistrates just-asses, and other rebellious acts.
In 1641 he was compelled to leave the island.
He took refuge with Roger Williams at Providence, but soon made himself so obnoxious there that he escaped public scorn by removing (1642) to a spot on the west side of Narraganset Bay, where he bought land of Miantonomoh and planted a settlement.
The next year inferior sachems disputed his title to the land; and, calling upon Massachusetts to assist them, an armed force was sent to arrest Gorton and his followers, and a portion of them were taken to Boston and tried as damnable heretics.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), High commission , Court of (search)
High commission, Court of
An ecclesiastical tribunal created by Queen Elizabeth (1559), by which all spiritual jurisdiction was vested in the crown.
It was designed as a check upon Puritan and Roman Catholic Separatists.
Originally it had no power to fine or imprison, but under Charles I, and Archbishop Laud it assumed illegal powers, and became an instrument of persecution of the non-conformists of every kind.
It was complained of to Parliament, and was abolished in 1641, at the beginning of the Civil War in England.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lechford , Thomas 1590 -1644 (search)
Lechford, Thomas 1590-1644
Author; born in London, about 1590; removed to Boston in 1638; was the first lawyer to practise in New England; returned to England in 1641.
He was the author of Plaine dealing, or news from New England, and New England's advice to old England.
He died in England, probably about 1644.
Le Moyne, 1656-1683
The name of a distinguished Canadian family, members of which bore conspicuous parts in early American history.
They were descended from Charles of Normandy, who died in Montreal, Canada, in 1683.
He went to Canada in 1641, where he became a famous Indian fighter.
In 1668 Louis XIV.
made him seigneur of Longueil, and subsequently of Chateaugay.
He had eleven sons, of whom Bienville and Iberville (qq.
v.) were the most eminent.
Charles, first Sieur de Longueil, was born in Montreal, Dec. 10, 1656; died there, June 8, 1729.
He was made a lieutenant-general of regulars in the royal army of France, and, returning to Canada, built churches and a fort at Longueil.
He fought the English assailants of Quebec under Phipps in 1690, and was made baron and governor of Montreal in 1700.
Becoming commandant-general of Canada, he prepared to meet the expedition against Quebec under Walker in 1711.
In 1720 he was governor of Three Rivers, and again of Montreal in
Michigan,
Was discovered and settled by French missionaries and furtraders.
As early as 1610 the site of Detroit was visited by Frenchmen, and in 1641 some Jesuits reached the falls of St. Mary.
The first European settlements within the present limits of Michigan were made there by the establishment of a mission by Father Jacques Marquette (q. v.) and others in 1668. Three years later Fort Mackinaw was established, and in 1701 Detroit was founded.
Michigan made slow progress in population from that time until it was made a Territory
Seal of the State of Michigan. of the United States.
It came into possession of the English by the treaty of 1763; suffered from the conspiracy of Pontiac (q. v.); and it was some time after the treaty of peace, in 1783, before the British gave up the territory.
The Americans did not take possession until 1796.
At first it was a part of the Northwest Territory, and afterwards it formed a part of the Territory of Indiana.
It was erected into an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colony of New Hampshire, (search)