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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alden, John, 1599-1687 (search)
Alden, John, 1599-1687 A Pilgrim father ; born in England in 1599; was employed as a cooper in Southampton, and having been engaged to rmouth Rock, but other authorities give this honor to Mary Chilton. Alden settled in Duxbury, and in 1621 was married to Priscilla Mullins. d then just bloomed into young womanhood, and Standish sent young John Alden to ask the hand of the maiden in marriage. The ambassador went t the room, where sat young, graceful, almost courtly, ruddy-faced John Alden, whom she knew well. The ambassador of love repeated his messageave won me, Old and rough as he is; but now it never can happen.“ John Alden pressed the suit of Standish, when Archly the maiden smiled, anda tremulous voice, Why don't you speak for yourself, John? Young Alden blushed, bowed, and retired, for he was faithful to his trust. Hissit was soon repeated, and it was not long before the nuptials of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins were celebrated by the whole community, exc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882 (search)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882 Poet; born in Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807; was a descendant of William Longfellow, of Newbury, Mass., and on his mother's side of John Alden, a passenger on the Mayflower; and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825. He studied law a short time, when he received the appointment of Professor of Modern Languages in his alma mater. To better fit himself for the duties, he spent three years and a half in Europe, and assumed his office in 1829. In 1835 he was chosen Professor of Belles-Lettres in Harvard, and again he made a pilgrimage to Europe to make himself familiar with Continental literature. For nearly twenty years he was a professor in Harvard College, retiring from that post in 1854, and pursued the task of literary composition in his fine old mansion at Cambridge, which Washington had used for his headquarters in 1775-76. He first wrote timidly for literary periodicals, and the first seven articles in a collection published in 1857 were
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pilgrim fathers, the (search)
wing are the names of the forty-one persons who signed the constitution of government on board the Mayflower, and are known as the Pilgrim Fathers: John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Myles Standish, John Alden, Samuel Fuller, Christopher Martin, William Mullins, William White, Richard Warren, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Tilley, John Tilley, Francis Cook, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Tinker, John Ridgedale, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Francis Eatonthe men built a rude shelter to receive them. On the 25th a greater portion of the passengers went on shore to visit the spot chosen for their residence, when, tradition Map of Plymouth Bay: scale 2 1/2 miles per inch. says, Mary Chilton and John Alden, both young persons, first sprang upon Plymouth Rock from the boat that conveyed them. Most of the women and children remained on board the Mayflower until suitable log huts were erected for their reception, and it was March 21, 1621, before
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Standish, miles 1584- (search)
. Standish visited England in 1625 as agent for the colony, and brought supplies the next year. The captain's wife, Rose Standish, was one of the victims of the famine and fever of 1621. In 1626 Standish settled at Duxbury, Mass., where he lived the remainder of his days administering the office of magistrate, or assistant, during the whole term. He also took part in the settlement of Bridgewater (1649). He died Oct. 3, 1656. A monument to his memory has Kitchen of Standish's House. been erected on Captain's Hill, Duxbury. Standish has been immortalized by Longfellow in his celebrated poem, The courtship of miles Standish, which recounts the romance of the masterful little captain in his relations with John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Standish lives in literature and tradition as one of the most virile and picturesque figures in early American history. In Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, is preserved, among other relics of the Pilgrims, Standish's sword and the barrel of his musket.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
time seven dwelling-houses and four other buildings......September, 1621 Capt. Miles Standish, with nine Plymouth colonists and three Indians, explores the country about Massachusetts Bay......October, 1621 Fortune, a vessel of fifty-five tons, bringing thirty-six passengers, arrives at Plymouth......Nov. 11, 1621 The same vessel, laden with beaver and other skins and lumber, valued at $2,400, the first remittance from New Plymouth, sails on her return voyage......Dec. 3, 1621 John Alden marries Priscilla Mullens (the Puritan maiden), daughter of William Mullens......1621 Town surrounded by a palisade and a stockade built......February, 1622 Much suffering from lack of food......spring of 1622 Canonicus, sachem of the Narragansets, sends by way of defiance a bundle of arrows tied in a rattlesnake's skin to Plymouth; Governor Bradford sends back the skin stuffed with powder and balls; this intimidates the tribe......1622 Colonists plant sixty acres of corn......16
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
(Lib. 7: 36, 56, 57, 61, 66, 69, and pamphlet), that as a pledge that the whole influence, official and personal, of the President of the United States shall be applied to sustain and perpetuate the institution of slavery, it is a melancholy prognostic of a new system of administration, of which the dearest interests of New England will be the first victims, and of which the ultimate result can be no other than the dissolution of the Union. Children of Carver, and Bradford, and Winslow, and Alden! concluded the old man eloquent, ——the pen drops from my hand (Lib. 7: 69). From these summits the policy of repression expanded downwards. The Washington National Intelligencer voluntarily Lib. 7.61. padlocked its own lips, agreeing to exclude all discussion of slavery from its columns except as occurring in the Congressional proceedings. The press of the District Lib. 7.66. generally garbled even these. Elsewhere, editors began injuriously to misreport the speeches at anti-slavery
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
lisher, 2.75, legislative appeal to North, 76. Albany National A. S. Convention, 2.307-310, 339. Albany Third Party Convention, 2.339-342. Albert, Prince [1819-1861], 2.364. Alcott, Amos Bronson [b. Wolcott, Conn., Nov. 29, 1799], brother-in-law of S. J. May, 2.27; attends G.'s Julien Hall lecture, 1.213, invites him home, 214; visits him in jail, 2.27; on G.'s sonnets to his babe, 2.99; joins Non-Resistant Soc., 236; at Groton Convention, 421, at Chardon St., 422, 425, 426. Alden, John, 2.198. Alexander, Richard Dykes, friend of Cresson, 1.362, Clarkson's dependence, 362, 363. Allen, E. W., Rev., 1.55. Son of Allen, Ephraim W. [1779-1846], editor Newburyport Herald, 1: 35, 59, 126, takes G. as apprentice, 35, encourages his (anonymous) contributions, 43; journey to Mobile, 48, 49; aids G. to found Free Press, 60, reproved for obituary of Jefferson, 63; notice of G.'s Baltimore trial, 184, G.'s reply, 185.—Letters from F. M. Garrison, 1.51, G., 52, 185. Allen, Geo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 2: the secular writers (search)
ht as well as I could. October 24. ... Told her I had an antipathy against those who would pretend to give themselves; but nothing of their estate. I would a proportion of my estate with my self. And I supposed she would do so. As to a Perriwig, My best and greatest Friend, I could not possibly have a greater, began to find me with hair before I was born, and had continued to do so ever since; and I could not find in my heart to go to another. Nov. 2. Midweek, went again and found Mrs. Alden there, who quickly went out. Gave her about i pound of sugar almonds, cost 3s. per £. Carried them on Monday. She seem'd pleas'd with them, ask'd what they cost. Spake of giving her a hundred pounds per annum if I died before her. Ask'd her what sum she would give me, if she should die first? Said I would give her time to consider of it. Novr. 4th. Friday. I ask'd her Whereabout we left off last time; mention'd what I had offered to give her; Ask'd her what she would give me; She sa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6: the Cambridge group (search)
unshine; in his whole career he never encountered any serious rebuff, while such were his personal modesty and kindliness that no one could long regard him with envy or antagonism. Among all the sons of song there has rarely been such an instance of unbroken and unstained success. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, Feb. 27, 1807. Through the Wadsworths and the Bartletts, the poet could trace his descent to at least four of the Mayflower pilgrims, including Elder Brewster and Captain John Alden. His boyhood showed nothing of the unruliness which people commonly associate with the idea of genius; indeed, the quiet sanity of his whole career was a refutation of that idle theory. He was a painstaking student, and made a very creditable record at Bowdoin College, where he had Nathaniel Hawthorne for a classmate. Before his graduation, in 1825, he had quite made up his mind as. to what he wanted to do in life: it must be literature or nothing; and this not merely from a prefere
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
Index. Adams, John, 53, 56, 63, 221. Adams, Mrs., John, 52, 56. Adams, John Quincy, 66. Addison, Joseph, 84, 108, 257. Al Aaraaf, Poe's, 214. Alcott, Amos Bronson, 179, 180-182. Alcott, Louisa M., 126. Alden, Capt., John, 139. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 264. All's well, Wasson's, 264. Americanism, 3, 159. American Humor, 242, 243. American poetical Miscellany, 68. Ames, Fisher, 4, 46. Ames, Nathaniel, 58. Ancient Mariner, Coleridge's, 68. A New home, Who'll follow? Mrs. Kirkland's, 240. Appeal for that class of Americans called Africans, Mrs. Child's, 125. Areopagitica, Milton's, 165. Arnold, Matthew, 266, 283. Arthur Gordon Pym, Poe's, 208. Arthur Mervyn, Brown's, 70. Astoria, Irving's, 240. Astronomical diary and almanac, Ames's, 58. Atlantic monthly, 106, 132, 133, 158, 162. Audubon, John James, 239. Austin, William, 187. Autocrat of the breakfast table, Holmes's, 157, 158. Bancroft, George, 87, 111, 117, 143. Barclay of Ury
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