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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
General J. E. 133; Surrender and disbanding of forces of, 124. Jones, Lieutenant, Ap Catesby, criticized, 328. Jones, Captain J. B., 83. Jones, Maryus, 275. Jones, General W. E.. 306 Jordan, Capt. of the Bedford Artillery, 90. Judson, Adoniram, His Life incense to heaven, 55. Keith, Judge, James, Address of, 212. Kelly, General B. F., 289. Kemper, General J. L at Gettysburg, 323. Kilpatrick, General, Judson, 180. Lackland, Colonel, 366. Lacy, Chaplain B. T., 6. Lamb, Hon., John, Address of, 57. Lampkin's Battery, Retreat of from Petersburg to Appomattox, 243 Last Confederate and Federal soldier, respectively, killed, 218. Lee's Rangers, A noted (company, 179, 277. Lee, General Fitzhugh 11, 12, 20,. Lee, general R. E., statement of as to Chancellorsville, 8, 9, 14, 55; Worsley's lines on, 63; Last order of to Army of Northern Virginia, 110; commanded in West Virginia, 121, 245, 292; Abiding spirit of, 350, 387; Tribute to by B. H. Hill, 356. L
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
o countermand all former orders; and chap. XIX.} 1765. Oct. not even to receive goods on commission, unless the Stamp Act be repealed. Thus a city, built on the ocean side, the chosen home of navigation, renounced all commerce; a people, who, as yet, had no manufactures, gave up every comfort from abroad, rather than continue trade at the peril of freedom. A committee of intercolonial correspondence was raised, and while James Delancy and others hesitated, the unflinching Isaac Sears, with Lamb, Mott, Wiley, and Robinson, assumed the post of greatest danger, and sent expresses R. R. Livingston to R. Livingston, 2 Nov. to invite the people of the neighboring governments to join in the league, justly confident they would follow the example of New-York. Friday, the first morning of November, broke Nov. upon a people unanimously resolved on nullifying the Stamp Act. From New Hampshire to the far South, the day was introduced by the tolling of muffled bells; minute-guns were fire
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 23: (search)
solved that the Stamp Act was unconstitutional, null, and void, and that business of all kinds should go on as usual. Then, too, the hum of domestic industry was heard more and more: young women would get together, and merrily and emulously drive the spinning wheel from sunrise till dark; and every day the humor spread for being clad in homespun. Hutchinson's Corr. 8 March, 1766. Cheered by the zeal of New England, the Sons of Liberty of New-York, under the lead of Isaac Sears and John Lamb, sent circular letters as far as South Carolina, inviting to the formation of a permanent continental union. Gordon, i. 199. But the summons was not waited for. The people of South Carolina grew more and more hearty against the Act. We are a very weak province, reasoned Christopher Gadsden, From an autograph letter of Christopher Gadsden to W. S. Johnson, 16 April, 1766. yet a rich growing one, and of as much importance to Great Britain as any upon the continent; and a great part
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., The crisis (search)
ercise of the right of free deliberation, every thing asked for was voted, except Chap. XXV.} 1766. June. such articles as were not provided in Europe for British troops which were in barracks. The General and the Governor united in accepting the grant; but in reporting the affair, the wellmeaning, indolent Moore reflected the opinions of the army, whose officers still compared the Americans to the rebels of Scotland, and wished them a defeat like that of Culloden. Leake's Life of John Lamb. My message, said he at the end of his narrative, is treated merely as a Requisition made here; and they have carefully avoided the least mention of the Act on which it is founded. It is my opinion, that every Act of Parliament, when not backed by a sufficient power to enforce it, will meet with the same fate. Gov. Moore to Conway, 20 June, 1766. From Boston, Bernard, without any good reason, chimed in with the complainers. This Government, said he, quickened and encouraged by the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
Navigation Acts, and even for the existence of Government. When the soldiers stationed in New-York had, in the night Holt's Gazette, 1232; 14 Aug. 1766, and 1233, 21 Aug. 1766. Dunlap's History of New-York, i. 433; Isaac Q. Leake's Life of John Lamb, 36. of the tenth of August, cut down the flagstaff of the citizens, the General reported the ensuing quarrel as a proof of anarchy and confusion, and the requisiteness of troops for the support of the laws. General Gage to Secretary Richmond, 26 Aug. 1766. Yet the New-York Association of the Sons of Liberty had been dissolved; and all efforts to keep up its glorious spirit, were subor dinated to loyalty. Isaac Sears, John Lamb, and others to Nicholas Ray, New-York, 10 Oct. 1766. A few individuals Andrew Oliver to Thomas Whately, 7 May, 1767, in Letters, &c., 19. at Boston, Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Oct. having celebrated the anniversary of the outbreak against the Stamp Act, care was taken to report, how healths had been drunk
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 43: (search)
Feb. 1770, printed at Philadelphia in March, copied into the Boston Gazette of 16 April, 1770; 784, 2, 182. was persecuted by the Government. In consequence of his appeal to the people against the concessions of the Assembly, which voted supplies to the troops, he was indicted for a libel; and refusing to give bail, this first Son of Liberty in bonds for the glorious cause was visited by such throngs in his prison, that he was obliged to appoint hours for their reception. Leake's Life of Lamb, 61. Holt's Gazette. Intelligence of these events, especially of the con- Chap XLIII.} 1770. Feb. flict of the citizens with the soldiers, was transmitted to Boston, Supplement of the Boston Gazette of 19 Feb. 1770. where the townsmen emulously applauded the spirit of the Yorkers. The determination to keep clear of paying the Parliament's taxes spread into every social circle. One week three hundred wives of Boston, the next a hundred and ten more, with one hundred and twenty-six o
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 50: (search)
to Dartmouth, 3 Nov. 1773; Hutchinson to Dartmouth, 4 Nov. 1773. Resolves of the Sons of Liberty of New-York, 29 Nov. 1773. After a few days' reflection, the commis- Chap. L.} 1773. Nov. sioners for that city, finding the discontent universal, threw up their places; yet the Sons of Liberty continued their watchfulness; a paper signed Legion, ordered the pilots not to bring tea-ships above the Hook; and the Mohawks were notified to be in eadiness, in case of their arrival. Leake's Life of Lamb, 76, 77. This example renewed the hope, that a similar expedient might succeed in Boston. Members of the Council, of greatest influence, intimated that the best thing that could be done to quiet the people would be the refusal of the consignees to execute the trust; and the merchants, though they declared against mobs and violence, yet as generally wished that the teas might not be landed. Hutchinson to Dartmouth, 15 Nov. 1773. On Wednesday the seventeenth, a ship which had made a
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
Chapter 2: New York Proposes a general congress. May, 1774. New York anticipated the prayer of Boston. Its Chap. II.} 1774. May. people, who had received the port-act directly from England, felt the wrong to that town, as a wound to themselves, and even the lukewarm kindled with resentment. From the epoch of the stamp-act, their Sons of Liberty, styled by the royalists the Presbyterian junto, had kept up a committee of correspondence. Yet Sears, MacDougal, and Lamb, still its principal members, represented the sympathies of the mechanics of the city, more than of the merchants; and they never enjoyed the full confidence of the great landed proprietors who, by the tenure of estates throughout New York, formed a recognised aristocracy. To unite the whole province on the side of liberty, a more comprehensive combination was, therefore, required. The old committee advocated the questionable policy of an immediate suspension of commerce with Britain; but they also propos
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 31: (search)
nning of war. The inhabitants, flushed with resentment, threw off restraints. Though it was Sunday, two sloops which lay at the wharfs laden with flour and supplies for the British at Boston, of the value of eighty thousand pounds, were speedily unloaded. The next day Dartmouth's despatches arrived with Lord North's conciliatory resolve, and with lavish promises of favor. But the royal government was already prostrate, and could not recover its consideration. Isaac Sears concerted with John Lamb to stop all vessels going to Quebec, Newfoundland, Georgia, or Boston; where British authority was still supreme. The people who came together at beat of Chap. XXXI.} 1775. April 24. drum shut up the custom-house; and the merchants whose vessels were cleared out, dared not let them sail. In the following days the city arms and ammunition of New York were secured; and volunteer companies paraded in the streets. Small cannon were hauled from the city to Kingsbridge; churchmen as well
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 52: (search)
kness. Insubordination heightened his distress. Seeing that the battery was ill placed, he would have erected one at the distance Chap. LII.} 1775. Oct. of four hundred yards from the north side of the fort; but the judgment of the army was against him. I did not consider, said he, I was at the head of troops who carried the spirit of freedom into the field and think for themselves; and saving appearances by consulting a council of war, he acquiesced in their reversing his opinion. In John Lamb, the captain of a New York company of artillery, he found a restless genius, brave, active, and intelligent, but very turbulent and troublesome. Anxious to relieve St. John's, Carleton, after the capture of Allen, succeeded in assembling about nine hundred Canadians at Montreal; but a want of mutual confidence and the certainty that the inhabitants generally favored the Americans, dispirited them, and they disappeared by desertions, thirty or forty of a night, till he was left almost as
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