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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Baylor, George, 1752-1784 (search)
Baylor, George, 1752-1784 Military officer; born in Newmarket, Va., Jan. 12, 1752. Soon after Washington's arrival at Cambridge in 1778, he appointed (Aug. 15) young Baylor as his aide. He was a participant in the battle at Trenton, and carried the news of the victory to Congress, when that body presented him with a horse caparisoned for service, and made him colonel of dragoons (Jan. 8, 1777). On the night of Sept. 27, 1778, his troop of horse, lying in barns, unarmed, near old Tappan, were surprised at midnight by the British while asleep. The British had silently cut off a sergeant's patrol and fell suddenly upon the sleeping troopers. The latter, without arms and powerless, asked for quarter. General Grey had given special orders not to grant quarter, and out of 104 prisoners sixty-seven were killed or wounded. Some of the men were bayoneted in cold blood. Baylor was wounded and made prisoner. He died in Bridgetown, Barbadoes. in March, 1784.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
treaty of peace......Jan. 14, 1784 Congress accepts cession of Northwest Territory by Virginia; deeds signed by Virginia delegates......March 1, 1784 American daily Advertiser, first daily newspaper in America, issued at Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin Bache......1784 Fiscal affairs of the United States placed in the hands of three commissioners appointed to succeed Robert Morris......1784 John Jay appointed secretary of foreign affairs in place of Livingston, resigned......March, 1784 Ninth Continental Congress adjourns; 189 days session......June 3, 1784 General Assembly of North Carolina cedes her western lands to the United States on condition of acceptance within two years, April, 1784, but repeals the act......Oct. 22, 1784 Washington makes a tour of the western country to ascertain by what means it could be most effectually bound to the Union......1784 Tenth Continental Congress meets at Trenton, N. J.......Nov. 1, 1784 Richard Henry Lee, of Vir
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webster, Daniel 1782-1852 (search)
Congress, whose report first expressed the strong sense of that body, that the old confederation was not adequate to the exigencies of the country, and recommending to the States to send delegates to the convention which formed the present Constitution. An attempt has been made to transfer from the North to the South the honor of this exclusion of slavery from the Northwestern Territory. The journal, without argument or comment, refutes such attempt. The session of Virginia was held March, 1784. On April 19, following, a committee, consisting of Messrs. Jefferson, Chase, and Howell, reported a plan for a temporary government of the Territory, in which was this article: That after the year 1800 there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been convicted. Mr. Speight, of North Carolina, moved to strike out this paragraph. The question was put, according to the form then