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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Acquisition of Territory. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Albright , Jacob , -1808 (search)
Albright, Jacob, -1808
Clergyman; born near Pottstown, Pa., May 1, 1759.
In youth he was a the-burner, but entered the Methodist ministry in 1790.
He male many converts, almost exclusively among the Germans, and in 1800 a separate Church organization was formed for them.
Albright becoming their first presiding elder.
He was appointed bishop in 1807.
His denomination is known as the Evangelical Association (q. v.). He died in 1808.
Anti-rent party.
The greater part of Columbia, Rensselaer, Greene, Delaware, and Albany counties in the State of New York belonged to manors, the grants of which had been made to patroons by the Dutch West India Company, and renewed by James H., the principal ones being Rensselaerswyck and Livingston Manor.
The tenants had deeds for their farms, but paid an annual rental instead of a principal sum. Dissatisfaction with this state of affairs had begun to show itself as early as 1790, and when, in 1839, Stephen Van Rensselaer, who had allowed much of his rent to remain in arrears, died, the tenants refused to pay rents to his successor, disguised themselves as Injuns, and for ten years carried on a reign of terror that practically suspended the operation of law and the payment of rent in the entire district.
The attempt to serve process by military aid, the so-called Helderberg War, was unsuccessful.
In 1847 and 1849 the anti-renters showed a voting strength of 5,000, adopting a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Austin , Stephen Fuller , (search)
Austin, Stephen Fuller,
Colonist; born about 1790; son of Moses Austin, of Connecticut.
who in 1820 received permission from the Mexican commander at Monterey to colonize 300 families in the province.
Moses died June 10, 1821, and Stephen successfully carried out the scheme.
The latter went to the city of Mexico in 1821.
and the grant given to his father was confirmed in February, 1823.
By it he was invested with almost absolute power over the colonists, whom he seated where the city of Austin now is, the site selected by him for the capital of Texas.
In March, 1833, a convention formed a State constitution, which Austin took to the central government of Mexico to obtain its ratification.
There were delays; and he recommended a union of all the municipalities, and the organization of a State under a Mexican law of 1824.
He was arrested, taken back to Mexico, and detained until September, 1835.
On his return he found the country in confusion, and he took part with the revo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bachman , John , 1790 -1874 (search)
Bachman, John, 1790-1874
Naturalist; born in Dutchess county, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1790.
He was pastor of a Lutheran church at Charleston, S. C., in 1815-74; but is best known from his association with Auduhbon in the preparation of his great work on ornithology.
He contributed the most of the text on the quadrupeds of North America, which Audubon and his sons illustrated.
He died in Charleston, S. C., Feb. 25, 1874.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bank of the United States . (search)
Bank of the United States.
Alexander Hamilton, observing the prosperity and usefulness to the commercial community and the financial operations of the government, of the Bank of North America, Bank of New York, and Bank of Massachusetts, which held the entire banking capital of the country before 1791, recommended the establishment of a government bank in his famous report on the finances (1790), as Secretary of the Treasury.
His suggestion was speedily acted upon, and an act for the purpose was adopted Feb. 8, 1791. President Washington asked the written opinion of his cabinet concerning its constitutionality.
They were equally divided.
The President, believing it to be legal, signed the bill, and so made it a law. The bank received a charter, the existence of which was limited to twenty years. It soon went into operation, with a capital of $10,000,000, of which amount the government subscribed $2,000,000 in specie and $6,000,000 in stocks of the United States.
The measure w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banneker , Benjamin , 1731 -1806 (search)
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806
A negro mathematician; born in Maryland, Nov. 9, 1731.
He taught himself mathematics; and for many years, while engaged in daily labor, made the necessary calculations for and published an almanac for Maryland and the adjoining States.
Mr. Jefferson presented one of his almanacs to the French Academy of Sciences, where it excited wonder and admiration, and the African almanac became well known to the scientific circles of Europe.
In 1790 he was employed by the commissioners in the survey of the boundaries of the District of Columbia.
His grandmother was an Englishwoman, who purchased a small plantation in Maryland, bought two slaves from a ship just from Africa and married one of them.
He died in Baltimore, in October, 1806.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , Josiah , 1729 - (search)