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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Samuel , 1722 -1803 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , William , 1710 -1780 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ames , Fisher , 1758 -1808 (search)
Ames, Fisher, 1758-1808
Orator and statesman; born in Dedham, Mass., April 9, 1758; was graduated at Harvard College in 1774; taught school until 1781; then began the practice of law: and soon displayed rare oratorical powers.
He wrote political essays for Boston newspapers, over the signatures of Brutus and Camillus.
In Congress from 1789 until 1797 he was always distinguished for his great business talent, exalted patriotism, and brilliant oratory.
Ardently devoted to Washington, personally and politically, he was chosen by his colleagues to write the address to the first President on his retiring
Fisher Ames. from office in 1797.
After leaving Congress he devoted himself to the practice of his profession; but finally, on account of declining health, gave it up to engage exclusively in agricultural pursuits.
In 1804 he was chosen president of Harvard College, but declined the honor.
He received the degree of Ll.D. from that institution.
His orations, essays, and letter
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bainbridge , William , 1774 -1833 (search)
Bainbridge, William, 1774-1833
Naval officer; born in Princeton, N. J., May 7, 1774.
At the age of sixteen years he went to sea, and at nineteen commanded a ship.
On the reorganization of the navy in 1798 he was appointed a lieutenant.
He and his vessel and crew were captured in the West Indies by a French cruiser in September of that year, but were released in December, when, returning home, he was promoted to the command of a brig.
In May, 1800, he was commissioned a captain, and in the ship Washington be carried tribute from the United States to the Dey of Algiers, by whom he was treated with much insolence.
By threats of capture and a declaration of war by the Algerine ruler, he was compelled to take an embassy to Constantinople for that petty despot.
On his return, with power given him by the
William Bainbridge. Sultan, Bainbridge frightened the insolent Dey, compelling him to release all Christian prisoners then in his possession.
He returned to the United States i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blair , John , 1732 -1800 (search)
Blair, John, 1732-1800
Jurist; born in Williamsburg, Va., in 1732; was educated at the College of William and Mary; studied law at the Temple, London; soon rose to the first rank as a lawyer; was a member of the House of Burgesses as early as 1765, and was one of the dissolved Virginia Assembly who met at the Raleigh Tavern, in the summer of 1774, and drafted the Virginia non-importation agreement.
He was one of the committee who, in June, 1776, drew up the plan for the Virginia State government, and in 1777 was elected a judge of the Court of Appeals; then chief-justice, and, in 1780, a judge of the High Court of Chancery.
he was one of the framers of the national Constitution; and, in 1789.
Washington appointed him a judge of the United States Supreme Court.
He resigned his seat on the bench of that court in 1796, and died in Williamsburg, Va., Aug. 31, 1800.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bland , Richard , 1710 -1776 (search)
Bland, Richard, 1710-1776
Statesman: born in Virginia.
May 6, 1710; was educated at the College of William and Mary; became a fine classical scholar, and was an oracle touching the rights of the colonies.
He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1745 until his death — a period of thirty-one years; and he was one of the most active of its patriotic members.
In 1774 he was a delegate in the Continental Congress, but declined to serve the next year.
In 1766 he published one of the ablest tracts of the time, entitled An inquiry into the rights of the British colonies.
He died in Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 26, 177
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bollan , William , 1740 -1776 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boone , Daniel , 1735 -1820 (search)
Boone, Daniel, 1735-1820
Explorer; born in Bucks county, Pa., Feb. 11, 1735.
From his youth he was a famous hunter, and, while yet a minor, he emigrated, with his father, to North Carolina, where he married.
In May, 1759, Boone and five others went to explore the forests of Kentucky.
There he was captured by some Indians, but escaped, and returned home in 1771.
In 1773 he led a party of settlers to the wilds he had explored; and in 1774 conducted a party of surveyors to the
Daniel Boone. falls of the Ohio (now Louisville). He had taken his family with the other families to Kentucky in 1773, where they were in perpetual danger from the barbarians of the forest.
He had several fights with the Indians; and in 1775 he built a fort on the Kentucky River on the present site of Boonesboro.
In 1777 several attacks were made on this fort by the Indians.
They was repulsed, but in February, 1778.
Boone was captured by them, and taken to Chillicothe, beyond the Ohio, and thence to D