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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Easton, Nicholas, 1593-1675 (search)
Easton, Nicholas, 1593-1675 Colonial governor; born in 1593; came to America in 1634, and settled in Ipswich, Mass. In 1638 he removed to Rhode Island and erected the first house in Newport; was governor of Rhode Island and Providence in 1650-52. He died in Newport, R. I., Aug. 15, 1675.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Felt, Joseph Barlow 1789-1869 (search)
Felt, Joseph Barlow 1789-1869 Historian; born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 22, 1789; graduated at Dartmouth in 1813, and entered the ministry. In 1836 he was asked to arrange the state papers of Massachusetts, which at that time were in confusion. He was librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1842-48, and president of the New England Historico-Genealogical Society in 1850-53. He was the author of Annals of Salem; History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton; Historical account of Massachusetts currency; Memoirs of Roger Conant, Hugh Peters, and William S. Shaw; also of The customs of New England. He died in Salem, Mass., Sept. 8, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hubbard, William 1621-1704 (search)
Hubbard, William 1621-1704 Clergyman; born in England in 1621; came to America in 1630; graduated at Harvard College in 1642, and later was ordained in the Congregational Church; was pastor in Ipswich, Mass., in 1665-1703. His publications include History of New England; A narrative of troubles with the Indians, etc. He died in Ipswich, Mass., Sept. 14, 1704. Hubbard, William 1621-1704 Clergyman; born in England in 1621; came to America in 1630; graduated at Harvard College in 1642, and later was ordained in the Congregational Church; was pastor in Ipswich, Mass., in 1665-1703. His publications include History of New England; A narrative of troubles with the Indians, etc. He died in Ipswich, Mass., Sept. 14, 1704.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New England. (search)
s in a tyrannous manner. He, with his council, made laws and levied taxes at their pleasure. Without the voice of an assembly, they levied a penny on the pound on all the estates in the country, and another penny on all imported goods, besides 20d. per head as poll-tax, and an immoderate excise on wine, rum, and other liquors. In many towns the inhabitants refused to levy the assessments; and as this was construed by the tyrant as seditious, punishments were inflicted. The selectmen of Ipswich voted, in 1688, That inasmuch as it is against the privilege of English subjects to have money raised without their own consent in an assembly or parliament, therefore they will petition the King for liberty of an assembly before they make any rates. For this offence Sir Edmund caused them to be fined— some $100, some $150, and some $250 So offensive became the government of Andros that some of the principal colonists sent the Rev. Increase Mather to England to represent their grievances t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Norton, John 1606-1663 (search)
Norton, John 1606-1663 Clergyman; born in Hertfordshire, England, May 6, 1606; became a Puritan preacher; settled in New Plymouth in 1635; and went to Boston in 1636, while the Hutchinsonian controversy (see Hutchinson, Anne) was running high. He soon became minister of the church at Ipswich. In 1648 he assisted in framing the Cambridge Platform. He went with Governor Bradstreet to Charles II., after his restoration, to get a confirmation of the Massachusetts charter. A requirement which the King insisted upon—namely, that justice should be administered in the royal name, and that all persons of good moral character should be admitted to the Lord's Supper, and their children to baptism—was very offensive to the colonists, who treated their agents who agreed to the requirement with such coldness that it hastened the death of Norton, it is said. The first Latin prose book written in the country was by Norton—an answer to questions relating to church government. He also wrote <
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Puritans, (search)
to exercise private judgment. Unsettled persons —Latitudinarian in religion—came to enjoy freedom and to disseminate their views. In that dissemination Puritanism saw a prophecy of subversion of its principles. Alarmed, it became a persecutor in turn. God forbid, said Governor Dudley in his old age, our love for truth should be grown so cold that we should tolerate errors—I die no libertine. To say that men ought to have liberty of conscience is impious ignorance, said Parson Ward, of Ipswich, a leading divine. Religion admits of no eccentric notions, said Parson Norton, another leading divine and persecutor of so-called Quakers in Boston. The early settlers in New England regarded the Indians around them as something less than human. Cotton Mather took a short method of solving the question of their origin. He guessed that the devil decoyed the miserable savages hither in hope that the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his absolut<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
rime was the embracing of the principles and mode of worship of the Quakers. Their two children remained behind in extreme poverty. They were fined for non-attendance upon the public worship carried on by their persecutors. The magistrates insisted that the fine must be paid, and passed the following order: Whereas, Daniel Southwick and Provided Southwick, son and daughter of Lawrence Southwick, absenting themselves from the public ordinances, having been fined by the courts of Salem and Ipswich, pretending they have no estates, and resolving not to work, the court, upon perusal of a law-which was made upon account of debts, in what should be done for the satisfaction of the fines, resolves, that the treasurers of the several counties are and shall be fully empowered to sell said persons to any of the English natives at Virginia or Barbadoes to answer the said fines. Endicott, it is said, urged the execution of the measure with vehemence; but, to the honor of the marine service, n
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
1633 Griffin brings 200 passengers, some of them eminent men, as John Haynes, afterwards governor of Massachusetts, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, and Samuel Stone......1633 Small-pox destroys many of the Indians of Massachusetts......1633 Ipswich settled......1633 Scituate settled......1633 Roger Williams returns to Salem from Plymouth colony......1633 Thomas Dudley chosen governor and Robert Ludlow deputy governor of the Massachusetts colony......1634 John Endicott cuts fromtake degrees in homespun ......1770 David Everett, journalist, born at Princeton, Mass.......March 29, 1770 [Author of: You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage, etc. Written while teaching a grammar school at Ipswich.] Castle William, in Boston Harbor, delivered into the hands of the King's troops by Governor Hutchinson......Sept. 10, 1770 Population of the State, 262,680......1770 Governor Hutchinson's salary, £ 2,000, paid by the English governmen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wigglesworth, Edward 1742-1826 (search)
Wigglesworth, Edward 1742-1826 Military officer; born in Ipswich, Mass., Jan. 3, 1742; graduated at Harvard College in 1761; became colonel in the Continental army in June, 1776; took part in the manoeuvres of the American squadron on Lake Champlain; and was present in the battle of Monmouth and other actions. In 1778 he was president of a court of inquiry to examine into the capitulation of Forts Montgomery and Clinton; in 1779 he resigned, and was made collector of the port of Newburyport. He died in Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 8, 1826.
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