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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
a, 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 Virginia, chosen president of Continental Congress......Nov. 30, 1784 Tenth Continental Congress adjourns; fifty-four days session......Dec. 24, 1784 Eleventh Continental Congress meets at New York......Jan. 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
ncluding headwaters of Oconee River......May 31, 1783 Legislature convenes at Augusta......July 8, 1783 Franklin and Washington counties laid out on land ceded by the Creek Indians......February, 1784 Executive council notified of ratification by Congress of treaty of peace with Great Britain......March 1, 1784 Land court opened at Augusta to issue warrants, citizens' rights, refugee certificates, Continental certificates, minute-men certificates, and marine certificates ......April, 1784 University of Georgia receives charter and 40,000 acres of wild land......1785 Legislature grants Count d'estaing 20,000 acres of land and free citizenship of Georgia......1785 Hostile Creeks subjected by Colonel Clarke, and treaty concluded at Galphington......Nov. 12, 1785 Chatham artillery of Savannah organized......May 1, 1786 Colonel Gunn breaks up camp of runaway negroes, trained to arms by the British and ravaging country......May 6, 1786 Gen. Nathanael Greene d
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
uck River, and 640 acres to each private, with larger grants to officers in the Continental army, North Carolina troops......1782 Thomas Hart Benton, statesman, son of Jesse Benton, private secretary of Governor Tryon, born near Hillsboro, Orange county......March 14, 1782 General Assembly at Hillsboro, among acts for relief of the general government, cedes her western lands and authorizes her delegates to execute a deed provided Congress would accept the offer within two years......April, 1784 Convention at Jonesboro appoints John Sevier president, and resolves that a person be despatched to Congress to press the acceptance of the offer of North Carolina......Aug. 23, 1784 General Assembly meets at Newbern and repeals the act of April 23, regarding the cession of western lands......Oct. 22, 1784 Convention of five delegates from each county meets at Jonesboro, chooses John Sevier president, and forms a constitution for the State of Frankland......Dec. 14, 1784 Const
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
mes. To Horace Greeley, Esq. [reply.] My Dear General: You are a soldier, and I am not; yet we agree in one thing — frankness. I have as little time or taste for argument as you, and will strive to emulate your directness and brevity. I agree with you that it is well to settle the disturbing questions you indicate now, and settle them finally. I propose, then, that we settle the Territorial question on the basis of Mr. Jefferson's proposition reported to Congress in April, 1784--within two months after the Confederation first had any territory to deal with. Mr. Jefferson was one of our greatest Revolutionary statesmen — he was a Virginian — a slaveholder — and especially honored and confided in by Kentucky till his death, which happened forty years afterwards. New York was then a slave State, yet she supported him right heartily; so did sixteen out of the twenty-three members present and voting, though nearly all were from slave States. I propose that we now