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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
orth, selling them on the way by day and stealing them back by night, always murdering them in the end. He was captured by Virgil A. Stewart in 1834, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary, where he died.] Spanish pirates (twelve in number), for an act of piracy on board the brig Mexican; trial at Boston; seven found guilty, five acquitted......Nov. 11-25, 1834 Heresy trial; Rev. Lyman Beecher, Presbyterian, before the presbytery and synod of Cincinnati, on charges preferred by Dr. Wilson, of holding and teaching Pelagian and Arminian doctrines; acquitted......June 9 et seq., 1835 Rev. Albert Barnes, Presbyterian, for heresies in Notes on the epistles to the Romans; tried and acquitted by presbytery of Philadelphia, June 30–July 8, 1835; condemned by the synod and suspended for six months, but acquitted by the general assembly......1836 Case of slave schooner Amistad......1839-40 Alexander McLeod, a Canadian, charged as an accomplice in burning the steamer Carolin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), War, board of (search)
War, board of On June 13, 1776, the Congress appointed John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Harrison, James Wilson, and John Rutledge commissioners constituting a board of war and ordnance, and appointed Richard Peters their secretary. This was the germ of the War Department of the government. It had a general supervision of all military affairs; kept exact records of all transactions, with the names of officers and soldiers; and had charge of all prisoners of war and of all correspondence on the subject of the army. The secretary and clerks were required to take an oath of secrecy before entering upon their duties. The salary of the secretary was fixed at $800 a year; of the clerks, $266.66. A seal was adopted. Owing to the extent Seal of the board of War. of the field of war, subordinate boards were authorized in 1778. In November, 1777, a new board was organized, consisting of three persons not members of Congress, to sit in the place where that body should be in session
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, Bushrod 1762- (search)
Washington, Bushrod 1762- Jurist; born in Westmoreland county, Va., June 5, 1762; a nephew of President Washington; graduated at the College of William and Mary in 1778, and studied law with James Wilson, in Philadelphia, becoming a successful practitioner. At Yorktown he served as a private soldier, and was a member of the Virginia Assembly in 1787; also a member of the Virginia convention that ratified the national Constitution. In December, 1798, he was appointed associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, which office he held until his death. in Philadelphia, Nov. 26, 1829. He was the first president of the American Colonization Society. Washington, City of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Washington, (search)
ssumes officeMay, 1860 W. H. Wallaceassumes office1861 L. J. S. Turney, actingassumes office1861 William Pickeringassumes officeJune, 1862 Marshall F. Mooreassumes office1867 Alvan Flandersassumes office1869 Edward S. Salomonassumes office1870 Elisha Pyre Ferryassumes office1872 William A. Newellassumes office1880 Watson C. Squireassumes office1884 Eugene Sempleassumes office1887 Miles C. Mooreassumes office1888 State governors. Elisha P. Ferryassumes officeNov. 18, 1889 John H. McGrawassumes officeJanuary, 1893 John R. Rogersassumes officeJanuary, 1897 United States Senators. Name.No. of Congress.Term. John B. Allen51st to 53d1890 to 1893 Watson C. Squire51st to —1890 to — Vacant Upon the expiration of John B. Allen's term in 1893 there was a deadlock and the office was vacant until Wilson's election in 1895.53d to —— to — John L. Wilson54th to 56th1895 to 1899 George Turner55th to —1897 to — Addison G. Foster56th to —1899 to — Wash
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, James -1798 (search)
Wilson, James -1798 Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born near St. Andrew's, Scotland, Sept. 14, 1742; educated in Scotland; came to America, and James Wilson. in 1766 was tutor in the higher seminaries of learning in Philadelphia, James Wilson. in 1766 was tutor in the higher seminaries of learning in Philadelphia, and studied law under John Dickinson. He was in the Provincial Convention of Pennsylvania in 1774, and was a delegate in Congress the next year, where he was an advocate for independence. From 1779 to 1783 he was advocate-general for France in the United States. Mr. Wilson was a member of the convention that framed the national Constitution, and of the Pennsylvania convention that adopted it; and was one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. He became the first Profe, N. C., Aug. 28, 1798. A vindication of the American colonies. —In the convention for the province of Pennsylvania, Mr. Wilson delivered a great speech in January, 1775, foreshadowing the union of the colonies and their armed resistance to Great
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 98 (search)
der Captain Campbell, and went to Pilot Knob. Major James Wilson, Third Missouri State militia cavalry, then cctions from Major-General Rosecrans were to have Major Wilson endeavor to hold Pilot Knob against any mere detable cavalry, placing the whole under command of Major Wilson, with orders to drive the enemy, if possible, thent down. At daylight (Tuesday) the enemy pushed Wilson back through Arcadia Valley to the gap between Shepn on the east end of Shepherd Mountain, and ordered Wilson to fall back with his cavalry along the side of Pilth sides, and opening a clear range from the fort. Wilson soon sent me word that the enemy were displaying a enant John Braden, Fourteenth Iowa, since dead. Major Wilson, Third Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, after bey report, I owe it to the cherished memory of Major James Wilson to make honorable mention of his name, not onFletcher, Forty-seventh Missouri volunteers. Major James Wilson, Third cavalry, Missouri State Militia. Capt
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 102 (search)
Doc. 25. the New Madrid expedition. Colonel Burrus' report. New Madrid, Mo., August 7. To Brigadier-General Ewing: Have been out seventeen days with a battalion of the Second Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, under Lieutenant-Colonel Heller, detachments of the Second and Third, under Major Wilson, and of the First and Sixth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, under Captain Prewitt. I had skirmishes with guerillas and bushwhackers, in Mississippi, Stoddard, New Madrid, Pemiscot and Duncan counties, Arkansas, killing considerable numbers of them. We had quite a brisk running fight at Osceola, Arkansas, on the second instant, with Bowen's and McVaigh's companies, of Shelby's command. We captured their camp, killing seven, and took twenty-five prisoners, including Captain Bowen, their commander. On the fourth, at Elksehula, we fought the Second Missouri rebel cavalry, and Conyer's Guthrie's and Darnell's bands of guerrillas, all under the command of Colonel Cowan. We route
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 8: American political writing, 1760-1789 (search)
in company with John Adams, had chivalrously defended the British soldiers indicted for participation in the Boston Massacre, in 1770. A competent critic Tyler, Literary History of the American Revolution, I, 272 note. has suggested that the larger part of the pamphlet, dealing with civil society and standing armies, had been carefully prepared some time before, advantage being taken of the Port Act to publish the work with an expanded title. Quincy's pamphlet was shortly followed by James Wilson's Considerations on the nature and the extent of the legislative authority of the British Parliament, an ingenious rejection of such authority in favour of allegiance to the king alone. The writer, a young lawyer of Philadelphia, was later to contribute powerfully to the acceptance of the Federal Constitution by Pennsylvania. Not all who entered the lists, however, agreed so unreservedly with the sentiments of Congress or of the patriot leaders. A series of papers in The Pennsylvani
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Wieland, 289, 292 Wigglesworth, Edward, 73,74, 75 Wigglesworth, Michael, 154, 156-157, 158, 160 Wigglesworth, Samuel, 154 Wilberforce, Bishop, 20 Wild Honeysuckle, the, 183 Wilderness and the War-path, the, 318 Wilkins, E. G., 230 Willard, Rev., Samuel, 158 William Gilmore Simms, 224 n. William Penn, 222, 225 Williams, Roger, 4, 8, 38, 39, 43-45, 50 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 223, 224, 230, 241-243, 243 n., 262, 280 Wilson, Alexander, 163, 180, 189, 196 Wilson, James, 135 Winds, the, 271 Wing-and-wing, 302 Wingfield, Edward M., 16 Winslow, Edward, 19 Winter Piece, 273 Winthrop, James, 148 Winthrop, John, 19, 21-22, 23, 23 n., 27, 35 Wirt, William, 190, 202-203, 233, 236-237, 240 Wise, John, 52-54, 55 Witch trial at Mount Holly, a, 95 Wizard of the rock, the, 177 Wolcott, Roger, 152 Wolfe, General, 166 Wolsey, Cardinal, 49 Wollaston, William, 93 Wonder-working Providence of Zion's Saviour in New England, 23 Wood
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., List of Massachusetts officers, and soldiers who died as prisoners. (search)
arch 19, 1864. Wilson, George, Enlisted from Boston.3d Mass. Cav.,Richmond, Va.,March 19, 1864. Wilson, Hynes,57th Mass. Inf.,Danville, Va.,Dec. 17, 1864. Wilson, J.,*22d Mass. Inf.,Richmond, Va.,Jan. 8, 1864. Wilson, James,17th Mass. Inf.,Savannah, Ga.,Nov. 3, 1864. Wilson, James,2d Mass. H. A.,Andersonville, Ga.,Sept. 1,Wilson, James,17th Mass. Inf.,Savannah, Ga.,Nov. 3, 1864. Wilson, James,2d Mass. H. A.,Andersonville, Ga.,Sept. 1, 1864. Wilson, Owen A.,2d Mass. H. A.,Charleston, S. C.,Oct. 6, 1864. Wilson, Robert,34th Mass. Inf.,Andersonville, Ga.,Aug. 25, 1864. Wilson, Samuel R.,54th Mass. Inf.,Florence, S. C.,Jan. 17, 1865. Wilson, Solon A.,2d Mass. H. A.,Andersonville, Ga.,Aug. 25, 1864. Wilson, William, Also reported mustered out, June 30, 1865.Wilson, James,2d Mass. H. A.,Andersonville, Ga.,Sept. 1, 1864. Wilson, Owen A.,2d Mass. H. A.,Charleston, S. C.,Oct. 6, 1864. Wilson, Robert,34th Mass. Inf.,Andersonville, Ga.,Aug. 25, 1864. Wilson, Samuel R.,54th Mass. Inf.,Florence, S. C.,Jan. 17, 1865. Wilson, Solon A.,2d Mass. H. A.,Andersonville, Ga.,Aug. 25, 1864. Wilson, William, Also reported mustered out, June 30, 1865.19th Mass. Inf.,Andersonville, Ga.,Oct. 8, 1864. Wilton, E.,20th Mass. Inf.,Salisbury, N. C.,--- Winchester, Silas, Corp.,23d Mass. Inf.,Florence, S. C.,Oct. 19, 1864. Wingate, George B., Bugler,1st Mass. Cav.,On Flag of Truce Boat, New York.Nov. 15, 1863. Winn, Hugh,4th Mass. Cav.,Florence, S. C.,—--, 1864. Winslow, William S
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