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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hartford conventions. (search)
ll the colonies. Congress approved the suggestion of the convention, but urged the States to adopt the regulation at once, without waiting for a general convention. The second, politically known as the Hartford Convention, was convened on Dec. 15, 1814. Because the Massachusetts militia had not been placed under General Dearborn's orders, the Secretary of State, in an official letter to Governor Strong, refused to pay the expenses of defending Massachusetts from the common foe. Similar a which those States were subjected by the course of the war. They also proposed the consideration of some amendments to the Constitution on the subject of slave representation. The proposition was acceded to. Hartford was the place, and Thursday, Dec. 15, 1814, the time, designated for the assembling of the convention. On that day twenty-six delegates, representing Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont, assembled and organized by the appointment of George Cabot,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Taxes. (search)
rs of spirituous liquors; and on sugar refined within the United States......July 24, 1813 Act passed imposing duties on licenses to retailers of wines, spirituous liquors, and foreign merchandise, and on notes of banks, etc., bonds and obligations discounted by banks, and on certain bills of exchange......Aug. 2, 1813 Direct tax of $3,000,000 imposed on States by counties......Aug. 2, 1813 Duties laid on carriages and harness, except those exclusively employed in husbandry......Dec. 15, 1814 Fifty per cent. added upon licenses to retailers of wines, etc., and 100 per cent. on sales by auction......Dec. 23, 1814 Direct tax of $6,000,000 laid upon the United States annually......Jan. 9, 1815 Internal-revenue tax of $1 per ton imposed on pig-iron; 1 cent per lb. on nails; also tax on candles, paper, hats, umbrellas, playing-cards, boots, tobacco, leather, etc., and an annual duty on household furniture, and gold and silver watches, by act......Jan. 18, 1815 Internal
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
neral Jackson occupies Pensacola......Nov. 6, 1814 Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, fifth Vice-President of the United States, dies at Washington, D. C., aged seventy......Nov. 23, 1814 Hartford Convention meets at Hartford, Conn.......Dec. 15, 1814 Martial law proclaimed in New Orleans by General Jackson......Dec. 15, 1814 Treaty of peace signed by the commissioners at Ghent......Dec. 24, 1814 Congress levies a direct tax of $6,000,000 (number of States, eighteen)......Jan. 9, Dec. 15, 1814 Treaty of peace signed by the commissioners at Ghent......Dec. 24, 1814 Congress levies a direct tax of $6,000,000 (number of States, eighteen)......Jan. 9, 1815 [The largest assessment, that of New York State, was $864,283.24; the smallest, of Delaware, $64,092.50.] Congress imposes duties on household furniture and on gold and silver watches......Jan. 18, 1815 United States purchases Jefferson's library, consisting of about 7,000 volumes, for the use of Congress, for $23,000......Jan. 26, 1815 Bill to incorporate the Bank of the United States is vetoed by President Madison......Jan. 30, 1815 Treaty of peace reaches New York in the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connecticut, (search)
tes surrender to the United States of jurisdiction over the Western Reserve, Ohio......May 30, 1800 Connecticut opposed to war of......1812 New London blockaded by Sir Thomas Hardy with British ships for twenty months......June, 1813 Stonington bombarded by Sir Thomas Hardy's fleet......Aug. 9-12, 1814 Delegates from the several New England legislatures meet in convention at Hartford to consider the grievances caused by the war, and to devise measures for its termination......Dec. 15, 1814 Connecticut adopts a State constitution in place of the royal charter, by a vote of 13,918 to 12,361......Oct. 5, 1818 Washington College (Episcopal) chartered at Hartford......1823 [Name changed to Trinity, 1845.] Wesleyan University at Middletown (Methodist) chartered......1831 Prudence Crandall opens a school for colored children at Canterbury......1833 [She is arrested and sent to jail. On failure to convict her the school-house is sacked by a mob and the inmates e
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
Wareham and burn several vessels and a factory; they also land at Scituate, a few miles from Boston, and throw the whole coast into fresh alarm. A million dollars is appropriated by the legislature for defence......June, 1814 Governor Strong calls out 10,000 militia to defend the State......1814 A circular letter to the New England States against the continuance of the war, sent out by Massachusetts......Oct. 17, 1814 State sends twelve delegates to the Hartford Convention......Dec. 15, 1814 News of peace with Great Britain brought to New York by the British sloopof-war Favorite......Feb. 11, 1815 [News conveyed to Boston in thirty-two hours, thought to be a great effort of speed. ] Recorder, the first religious paper published in the world......Jan. 3, 1816 Maine separates from Massachusetts and erected into a State......1820 Constitution of the State revised......1820 Amherst College, Amherst, dedicated......Sept. 18, 1821 Massachusetts Society organi