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Abolition.
During the early years of our national history, abolition was a desire rather than a purpose, and every humane and thinking man, North and South, was an abolitionist.
Previous to the meeting of the first Continental Congress, in 1774, many of the colonies had made protests against the further importation of slaves, and at least two of them, Virginia and Massachusetts, had passed resolutions abolishing the traffic.
The Quakers, or Society of Friends, had, since 1760, made slave-holding and slave-trading a matter of church discipline.
The War for Independence, and the adoption of the Constitution, in 1787, which included the compromise resolution that provided for the continuation of the slave-trade, by permission, until 1808, caused very little change in the sentiment of the people, and all hoped that in some way, not yet imagined, the gradual and peaceful abolition of slavery would be accomplished.
In 1777, Vermont, not yet admitted to the Union, formed a State cons
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barre , Isaac 1726 -1802 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beakman , Daniel Frederick 1760 -1869 (search)
Beakman, Daniel Frederick, 1760-1869
Soldier; born in New Jersey about 1760; enlisted in 1778, and served throughout the Revolutionary War; was the last surviving pensioner of that war. In 1867 Congress passed a special act, giving him a pension of $500 during life.
He died in Sandusky, N. Y., April 5, 1869.
Beakman, Daniel Frederick, 1760-1869
Soldier; born in New Jersey about 1760; enlisted in 1778, and served throughout the Revolutionary War; was the last surviving pensioner of that war. In 1867 Congress passed a special act, giving him a pension of $500 during life.
He died in Sandusky, N. Y., April 5, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beebe , Bezaleel 1741 -1824 (search)
Beebe, Bezaleel, 1741-1824
Military officer; born in Litchfield, Conn., April 28, 1741; was one of the Rogers Rangers, and was engaged in the fight in which Putnam was taken, also in the capture of Montreal in 1760.
In July, 1775, he was commissioned lieutenant and sent to Boston.
In 1776 he saw active service in New York and New Jersey, and was taken prisoner at the capture of Fort Washington and confined in New York nearly a year.
Towards the end of the Revolution he was appointed brigadier-general and commander of all the Connecticut troops for sea-coast defence.
He died in Litchfield, May 29, 1824.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bernard , Sir Francis 1714 -1779 (search)
Bernard, Sir Francis, 1714-1779
Colonial governor; born in Nettleham, Lincoln co., England, in 1714: was educated at Oxford, where he was graduated in 1736.
The law was his chosen profession.
In 1758 he was appointed governor of New Jersey; and in 1760 he was transferred to the chief magistracy of Massachusetts, where he was a most obedient servant of the crown and ministry in the support of measures obnoxious to the colonists.
After a stormy administration of nearly nine years Bernard was recalled, when he was created a baronet, chiefly because of his recommendation to transfer the right of selecting the governor's council from the colonial legislature to the crown.
Bernard was a friend of learning, and gave a part of his library to Harvard College.
He had become so thoroughly unpopular that when he left Boston the bells were rung, cannon were fired, and Liberty-tree was hung with flags, in token of the joy of the people.
He died in Aylesbury, England, June 16, 1779.
Boone, Thomas,
Colonial governor; appointed governor of New Jersey in 1760, and of South Carolina in 1762.
He quarrelled with the legislature of South Carolina, which refused to hold any intercourse with him, and in 1763 was succeeded as governor by William Bull.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Braxton , Carter 1736 -1797 (search)
Braxton, Carter, 1736-1797
A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Newington, Va., Sept. 10. 1736; was educated at the College of William and Mary in 1756, and resided in England until 1760.
He was a distinguished member and patriot in the Virginia House of Burgesses in supporting the resolutions of Patrick Henry in 1765, and in subsequent assemblies dissolved by the governor.
He remained in the Virginia Assembly until royal rule ceased in that colony, and was active in measures for defeating the schemes of Lord Dunmore.
Braxton was in the convention at Richmond in 1775, for devising measures for the defence of the colony and the public good; and in December he became the successor of Peyton Randolph in Congress.
He remained in that body to vote for and sign the Declaration of Independence.
In 1786, after serving in the Virginia legislature, he became one of the executive council.
He died in Richmond, Va., Oct. 10, 1797.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Breckenridge , John 1760 -1806 (search)
Breckenridge, John, 1760-1806
Statesman; born in Augusta county. Va., Dec. 2, 1760; was admitted to the bar in 1785; elected to Congress in 1793 but did not accept, having determined to remove to Kentucky, where he settled near Lexington.
He was appointed attorney-general of Kentucky in 1795.
In 1798 he met Jefferson and Nicholas at Monticello and prepared the famous Kentucky resolutions of 1798, of which Jefferson claimed the authorship.
In 1801 he was elected to the United States Senate, and resigned in 1805 to become Attorney-General under President Jefferson, which office he filled about four months. He died in Lexington, Ky., Dec. 14, 1806.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bute , John Stuart , Earl of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Butler , Richard 1760 - (search)
Butler, Richard, 1760-
Military officer; born in Ireland; came to America before 1760; was a lieutenant-colonel in the Pennsylvania line in the Continental army, and also of Morgan's rifle corps in 1777.
Butler served throughout the war; was agent for Indian affairs in Ohio in 1787; and was with St. (lair in his expedition against the Indians, late in 1791, commanding the right wing of his army, with the rank of major-general.
In that expedition he was killed by Indians in a battle in Ohid, 1760-
Military officer; born in Ireland; came to America before 1760; was a lieutenant-colonel in the Pennsylvania line in the Continental army, and also of Morgan's rifle corps in 1777.
Butler served throughout the war; was agent for Indian affairs in Ohio in 1787; and was with St. (lair in his expedition against the Indians, late in 1791, commanding the right wing of his army, with the rank of major-general.
In that expedition he was killed by Indians in a battle in Ohio, Nov. 4, 1791.