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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hazelwood, John 1726-1800 (search)
Hazelwood, John 1726-1800 Naval officer; born in England about 1726; settled in Philadelphia. In December, 1775, he was made superintendent of fire-ships; in September, 1777, became commander of the naval force of Pennsylvania. Col. William Bradshaw wrote in a letter, dated Oct. 7, 1777, that when Lord Howe, who had anchored with his squadron in Delaware Bay, sent word to Hazelwood to surrender his fleet, with the promise of the King's pardon, the latter replied that he would defend the fleet to the last. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., about March 1, 1800.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hopkins, Esek 1718-1802 (search)
Hopkins, Esek 1718-1802 Naval officer; born in Scituate, R. I., in 1718. Governor Cooke commissioned him a brigadier-general at the breaking out of the Revolution. In December, 1775, Congress commissioned him commander-in-chief of the inchoate navy, and he put to sea in the first squadron in February, 1776, consisting of four ships and three sloops, sailing for the Bahama Islands. There he captured a large quantity of ordnance stores and ammunition, and 100 cannon. He captured two British vessels on his return. Complaint was made that he had not annoyed the British ships on the southern coast, and he was arraigned before the naval Esek Hopkins. committee of Congress on the charge. He was acquitted, but unavoidable delays in getting vessels to sea afterwards caused other charges to be made, and he was dismissed the service, Jan. 2, 1777. During his long life he exerted great political influence in Rhode Island. He died in North Providence, R. I., Feb. 26, 1802.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe, Robert 1732- (search)
Howe, Robert 1732- Military officer; born in Brunswick county, N. C., in 1732; was in the legislature in 1773; was one of the earliest and most uncompromising of the patriots of the Cape Fear region, and was honored with an exception, together with Cornelius Harnett, when royal clemency was offered to the rebels by Sir Henry Clinton, in 1776. He was appointed colonel of the 1st North Carolina Regiment, and with his command went early into the field of Revolutionary strife. In December, 1775, he joined Woodford at Norfolk, in opposition to Lord Dunmore and his motley army. For his gallantry during this campaign, Congress, on Feb. 29, 1776, appointed him one of five brigadier-generals in the Continental army, and ordered him to Virginia. In the spring of 1776, British spite towards General Howe was exhibited by Sir Henry Clinton, who sent Cornwallis, with 900 men, to ravage his plantation near old Brunswick village. He was placed in chief command of the Southern troops in 177
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jones, John Paul 1747- (search)
Jones, John Paul 1747- Naval officer; born in Kirkbean, Scotland. July 6, 1747. Before he was eighteen years old he commanded a vessel that traded with the West Indies. Jones came to Virginia in 1773, inheriting the estate of his brother, who died there. Offering his services to Congress, he was made first lieutenant in the navy in December, 1775, when, out of gratitude to General Jones, of North Carolina, he assumed his name. Before that he was John Paul. He was a bold and skilful sea-rover, gathering up many prizes. Made captain in the fall of 1776, he raised the first flag ever displayed on a United States ship-of-war the Alfred. He destroyed the Port Royal (N. S.) fisheries, capturing all the vessels and freight. In the summer of 1777 he sailed in the Ranger to Europe, and in February, 1778, received from a French commander the first salute ever given to the American flag by a foreign man-of-war. In April he scaled the walls of Whitehaven, in England, on the borders
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pendleton, Edmund 1721-1803 (search)
Pendleton, Edmund 1721-1803 Statesman; born in Caroline county, Va., Sept. 9, 1721; was a leading member of the Virginia House of Burgesses when the Revolutionary War broke out, and, as a conservative patriot, was opposed to radical Patrick Henry. He was a member of the Continental Congress in 1774-75, and president of the Virginia conventions of December, 1775, and May, 1776, the latter instructing their representatives in Congress to vote for independence. Mr. Pendleton had been a member of the committee of correspondence before the war, and during the earlier period of the war was one of the committee of safety, which controlled the military and naval affairs of Virginia. On the organization of the State Senate he was appointed speaker of the Assembly, and with Wythe and Jefferson revised the colonial laws. He was president of both the court of chancery and court of appeals, and in 1788 he presided over the convention that ratified the national Constitution, of which he wa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
secret correspondence with friends of America in Great Britain, Ireland, and other foreign nations Nov. 29, 1775 Battle of Great Bridge, Va. Dec. 9, 1775 Congress appoints Silas Deane, John Langdon, and Christopher Gadsden, a committee to fit out two vessels of war, Nov. 25, orders thirteen vessels of war built and appoints Esek Hopkins commander Dec. 13, 1775 British vessels driven from Charleston Harbor, S. C., by artillery company under Colonel Moultrie, stationed on Haddrell's Point Dec., 1775 American forces united under Montgomery and Arnold repulsed at Quebec; General Montgomery killedDec. 31, 1775 Washington unfurls the first Union flag of thirteen stripes at Cambridge, Mass. Jan. 1, 1776 Norfolk, Va., partly burned by Governor Dunmore Jan. 1, 1776 Battle of Moore's Creek, N. C.: McDonald's loyalists routed by militia; seventy killed and wounded. Feb. 27, 1776 Silas Deane appointed political agent to the French Court March 2, 1776 Howe evacuates Boston March 17, 1776
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
o the sloop-of-war Tamar......Sept. 15, 1775 Hostilities in South Carolina begun by the British vessels Tamar and Cherokee making a night attack on the schooner Defence, Captain Tufts, while blocking Hog Island channel by sinking hulks. Shots are exchanged, but at sunrise the British vessels retire......Nov. 12, 1775 Colonel Moultrie, authorized by the council of safety, takes possession of Haddrell's Point, and with artillery drives the British vessels from Charleston Harbor......December, 1775 Constitution framed by the Provincial Congress of South Carolina adopted, March 26, 1776, and courts of justice opened......April 23, 1776 British fleet under Sir Peter Parker unsuccessfully attacks Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island.......June 28, 1776 Thomas Heyward, Jr., James Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, and Edward Rutledge sign the Declaration of Independence......1776 Colonel Williamson, with 2,000 men, marches against the Cherokees, Sept. 13, and lays waste all their se
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
, 1716 French, discontinued, 1741 Occupied by Catholic Society, first service, Nov. 6, 1788 Universalist built, corner-stone laid, May 19, 1817 Rev. Hosea Ballou ordained, Dec. 25, 1817 Rev. Alonzo A. Miner installed, May 28, 1848 Removed, to build stores, 1872 Society removed to Columbus ave., 1872 Churches Second, built in Clark square, of wood, 1649 In Clark square, burned, Nov. 27, 1676 Again rebuilt of wood, 1677 Used for fuel by British soldiers, Dec., 1775 Shawmut ave. and Williams st. dedicated (Bap.), Dec., 1849 Congregational, dedicated, Nov. 18, 1852 St. Paul's, Tremont street, Episcopal, cornerstone laid, Sep. 4, 1819 St. Stephen's, Purchase st., corner-stone laid, Mar. 25, 1845 St. Mark's, Concord street, built, 1845 Springfield street, Congregational, completed and dedicated, July 8, 1863 Suffolk street, Catholic, corner-stone laid, July 8, 1842 Temple street, Methodist, corner-stone laid, June 30, 1835 New
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 51: (search)
Chapter 51: Parliament is at one with the king. October—December, 1775. when the Russians arrive, will you go and see Chap. LI.} 1775. Oct. their camp? wrote Edward Gibbon to a friend. We have great hopes of getting a body of these barbarians; the ministers daily and hourly expect to hear that the business is concluded; the worst of it is, the Baltic will soon be frozen up, and it must be late next year before they can get to America. The couriers that, one after another, arrived from Moscow, dispelled this confidence. The king was surprised by the refusal of the empress of Russia, and found fault with her manner as not genteel; for, said he, she has not had the civility to answer me in her own hand; and has thrown out expressions that may be civil to a Russian ear, but certainly not to more civilized ones. Yet he bore the disappointment with his wonted firmness; and turned for relief to the smaller princes of Germany, who now, on the failure of his great speculatio
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 54: (search)
Chapter 54: The siege of Quebec. November—December, 1775. The day before Montgomery entered Montreal, Chap. LIV.} 1775 Nov. Carleton, with more than a hundred regulars and Canadians, embarked on board some small vessels in the port to descend to Quebec. He was detained in the river for several days by contrary winds, and moreover he found the St. Lawrence, near the mouth of the Sorel, guarded by continental troops under Easton. On the seventeenth of November, Prescott, the brigadier who had so lately treated Allen with insolent cruelty, surrendered the flotilla of eleven sail with all the soldiers, sailors, and stores on board; but in the darkest hour of the previous night, Carleton, entering a small boat in the disguise of a peasant, had been safely paddled through the islands that lie opposite the Sorel. Touching as a fugitive at Trois Rivieres, he arrived on the nineteenth at Quebec, where his presence diffused joy and confidence among the loyal. Thus far he had sh
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