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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 51 7 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Annapolis, (search)
surrounding country. Charles Carroll and others, fearing mob violence, advised Stewart to burn the vessel and cargo with his own hands, which he did. The vessel was run ashore and destroyed, when the people cheered and dispersed. This was the last attempt at importation of tea into the English-American colonies. On April 14, 1755, General Braddock and Commodore Keppel, with Governors Shirley, of Massachusetts; De Lancey, of New York; Morris, of Pennsylvania; Sharpe. of Maryland, and Dinwiddie. of Virginia. held a congress at Annapolis. Braddock had lately arrived as commander-in-chief of the British forces in America. Under his instructions, he first of all directed the attention of the government to the necessity of raising a revenue in America. He expressed astonishment that no such fund was already established. The governors told him of their strifes with their respective assemblies, and assured Braddock that no such fund could ever be established in the colonies witho
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dinwiddie, Robert, 1690-1770 (search)
Dinwiddie, Robert, 1690-1770 Colonial governor; born in Scotland about 1690. While acting as clerk to a collector of c of Burgesses paid no attention to his expressed wishes. Dinwiddie, unmindful of this conduct, enlisted a captain's command,. Washington proved himself to be a zealous officer; and Dinwiddie, discovering his capacity, made him adjutant-general of a the Ohio region, and the tenor of St. Pierre's answer to Dinwiddie's letter, convinced the Robert Dinwiddie latter of the Robert Dinwiddie latter of the necessity of quick and energetic countervailing measures. St. Pierre declared that he was acting under the instructions of sed to withdraw his troops from the disputed territory. Dinwiddie immediately prepared for an expedition against the French were killed. Some of his captured men were sent to Governor Dinwiddie. Reinforced, Washington marched for Fort Duquesne a obliged to surrender on July 3. See necessity, Fort. Dinwiddie was the first to suggest to the British board of trade
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fauquier, Francis 1720- (search)
Fauquier, Francis 1720- Colonial governor; born in Virginia about 1720. When Dinwiddie was recalled in 1758 Fauquier succeeded as lieutenant-governor; and when the Assembly in 1764 adopted Patrick Henry's resolution declaring that the sole right of taxation was in the colonial legislature, he dissolved the Assembly and also refused to summon the House of Burgesses to take action upon the invitation sent out by Massachusetts in 1765 for co-operation. He died March 3, 1768.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Loudoun, John Campbell, fourth Earl of 1705-1782 (search)
Loudoun, John Campbell, fourth Earl of 1705-1782 Military officer; born in Scotland in 1705; was appointed governor of Virginia and commander-in-chief of the British forces in America in 1756. Leaving his lieutenant, Dinwiddie, to govern the province, he paid attention to military affairs, in which his indolence, indecision, and general inefficiency were most John Campbell Loudon. conspicuous, and worked disasters. Franklin said of him: He is like little St. George on the sign-boards, always on horseback, but never goes forward. He was recalled in 1757, and returned to England. In 1758 he was made lieutenant-general, and in 1770 general. He died in Scotland, April 27, 1782. According to his instructions, the Earl of Loudoun demanded of the authorities of New York City free quarters for himself, his officers, and 1,000 men. Your demand is contrary to the laws of England and the liberties of America, said the mayor of the city. Free quarters are everywhere usual. I as
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
mouth of the great Miami......1749 England grants the Ohio Company 600,000 acres of land......1749 Gist and Croghan lead a party of English explorers into the Ohio country......1749 Charles Townshend, of the English ministry, urges the forcible seizure of the Ohio region......1752 French and Indians attack the English trading-post of Pickawillany (Piqua), capture and destroy it......June, 1752 Duquesne sends a French expedition of occupation into the Ohio Valley......1753 Dinwiddie, governor of Virginia, determines upon the forcible occupation of the Ohio country......1753 Expedition of Washington to St. Pierre at Le Boeuf......1753 Frederick Post, first Moravian missionary in Ohio, settles on the Muskingum......1761 Treaty of Paris: France cedes to England all Canada and the French possessions from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi......Feb. 10, 1763 First general conspiracy of the Northwestern Indians under Pontiac......1763 Bouquet's expedition int
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
nd Monongahela, now Pittsburg, but on the approach of the French capitulate......April 17, 1754 French occupy and finish the fort, calling it Duquesne, in honor of the governor of Canada......1754 Washington sent with about 150 men by Governor Dinwiddie, of Virginia, to the Great Meadows......April, 1754 Congress of commissioners of the colonies at Albany, N. Y.......June 19, 1754 Gen. Edward Braddock, commander-inchief of the British in America, arrives in the Chesapeake with two British regiments......February, 1755 General Braddock meets Shirley, governor of Massachusetts, De Lancey, of New York, Morris, of Pennsylvania, Sharpe, of Maryland, and Dinwiddie, of Virginia, in a congress at Alexandria, Va.......April 14, 1755 [Object of the meeting was the establishing of a colonial revenue, and the advice to the British government, in which all concurred, was taxation by act of Parliament.] Assembly appropriates £ 30,000 for carrying on the war......April, 1755
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
ng governor, dying, is succeeded first by Thomas Lee, then by Lewis Burwell......1750-51 Robert Dinwiddie appointed lieutenantgovernor, and arrives in Virginia early in......1752 By treaty the wrg, agree not to molest any settlement on the south side of the Ohio......June 13, 1752 Governor Dinwiddie sends Washington (then twenty-one years old) as a commissioner to investigate the proceedieuf on French Creek, Pa., about 15 miles south of Lake Erie......Dec. 11, 1753 Deliver Governor Dinwiddie's letter to St. Pierre, commandant at Le Boeuf, receive a written reply, and return......Df all the forces in America......February, 1754 Washington, with two companies, sent by Governor Dinwiddie to the Great Meadows......April, 1754 Washington attacks a small party of French near t incorporated 1752, the only settlement not deserted west of the Blue Ridge......1756 Gov. Robert Dinwiddie retires......January, 1758 [John Blair, president of the council, acting governor.]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colony of Virginia, (search)
Virginia, where the General Assembly met in 1700. The code was revised for the fifth time in 1705, when by it slaves were declared real estate, and this law continued until 1776. Hostilities with the French broke out in 1754, they having built a line of military posts along the western slope of the Alleghany Mountains, in the rear of Virginia, and at the head-waters of the Ohio. To one of these posts young George Washington was sent on a diplomatic mission towards the close of 1753, by Dinwiddie, governor of Virginia. That was Washington's first appearance in public service. He performed the duty with so much skill and prudence that he was placed at the head of a military force the next year, and fought the French at and near Fort Necessity. During the French and Indian War that ensued, Virginia bore her share; and when England began to press her taxation schemes in relation to the colonies, the Virginia House of Burgesses took a patriotic stand in opposition, under the leader
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Virginia, (search)
o 1668 Sir William Berkeley1663 to 1677 Sir Herbert Jeffreys1677 to 1678 Sir Henry Chicheley1678 to 1680 Lord Culpeper1680 to 1684 Lord Howard of Effingham1684 to 1688 Nathaniel Bacon1688 to 1690 Francis Nicholson1690 to 1692 Sir Edmund Andros1692 to 1698 Francis Nicholson1698 to 1705 Edward Nott1705 to 1706 Edmund Jennings1706 to 1710 Alexander Spotswood1710 to1722 Hugh Drysdale1722 to 1726 William Gouch1726 to 1749 Thomas Lee and1749 to 1752 Lewis Burwell.1749 to 1752 Robert Dinwiddie1752 to 1758 Francis Fauquier1758 to 1768 Lord Boutetourt1768 to 1770 William Nelson1770 to 1772 Lord Dunmore1772 to 1775 Provisional conventionfrom July 17, 1775, to June 12, 1776 Governors under the Continental Congress and the Constitution. Name.Term. Patrick Henry1776 to 1779 Thomas Jefferson1779 to 1781 Thomas Nelson1781 Benjamin Harrison1781 to 1784 Patrick Henry1784 to 1786 Edmund Randolph1786 to 1788 Beverly Randolph1788 to 1791 Henry Lee1791 to 1794 Robert Broo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washingtoniana. -1857 (search)
Washingtoniana. -1857 Robert Dinwiddie, lieutenant-governor of Virginia, observing with anxiety and alarm the movements of the French on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, made a treaty with the Indian bands on the Monongahela River, in September, 1753, from whom he gained permission to build a fort at the junction of that river and the Alleghany, now Pittsburg. He also resolved to send a competent messenger to the nearest French post, with a letter demanding explanations, and the release g his business and returning to Williamsburg; and after spending a day at Venango, he pushed forward to Le Boeuf, the headquarters of St. Pierre, the chief commander, who entertained him politely four days, and then gave him a written answer to Dinwiddie's remonstrance, enveloped and sealed. Washington retraced his perilous journey through the wilderness, and after an absence of eleven weeks he again stood in the presence of the governor (Jan. 16, 1754), with his message fulfilled to the satis