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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winthrop, John 1606-1649 (search)
Winthrop, John 1606-1649 Colonial governor; born near Groton, Suffolk, England, Jan. 22, 1588; arrived at Salem in the summer of 1630, with 900 emigrants, in several ships, and on the voyage employed a portion of his time in writing a work entitled A model of Christian charity. On his arrival, the government, administered by Endicott, was transferred to him. He was a just magistrate, and managed the affairs of the colony with vigor and discretion until succeeded by Thomas Dudley, in 1634. Winthrop and the whole company who came with him intended to join the settlers at Charlestown, but, it being sickly there, they went over to the peninsula of Shawmut, where there was a spring of pure and wholesome water, and seated themselves, and called the place Trimountain, on account of three hills. It was afterwards called Boston, and became the capital of New England. John Winthrop. When Sir Henry Vane came, and was elected governor, Winthrop was made his deputy, and it was at that
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
al Wolsey, the beautiful floors are yet bare and the walls covered with tapestry. In the Middle Ages carpets were used before the high altar and in certain parts of the chapter. Bedside carpets are noticed in 1301, and carpets for the royal thrones in the fifteenth century. Turkey carpets before the communion-table were used in the reigns of Edward VI., Elizabeth, and the Stuarts. The manufacture of carpets was introduced into France from Persia, in the reign of Henry IV., about 1606; a manufactory being established at Chaillot, near Paris. Workmen from France introduced carpet-making into England about 1750. A carpet-factory was established at Axminster, 1755, the year of the Lisbon earthquake. There are several characteristic processes in the manufacture of carpets. 1. The web is formed of a warp and weft of flax, and the wool or worsted is inserted in tufts which are twisted around each of the warp-threads, the color of the tuft being determined by its positi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
ed to pass and remove larger matters, and sieves with closer meshes to hold the grass-seed and allow certain small weed-seeds and dust to pass. Grate. 1. A grated box or basket, or a box with a series of bars for a floor, in which fuel is burned. The oldest form of grate may have been a row of bars laid upon bearers or stones so as to admit air beneath the fuel in the intervals of the bars. A cresset or fire-cage is also an old form of grate. See cresset. In an inventory, dated 1606, of the goods of Sir Thomas Kytson, at Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, England, mention is made of a cradell of iron for the chimnye to burn sea-coal with, and also j fier sholve made like a grate to seft the sea-coal with. The cradell was probably a standing basket-grate. This is an early mention of the use of sea-coal, but the basket form was common in cressets. James Watt, in 1785, patented an arrangement for consuming the smoke in furnaces, by supplying the fire from above downward by means
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
roper moments and forced downward by springs on their respective shafts. The wire drawn from a coil is severed into proper lengths by a cutter operated from the swing-bar q by means of a ratchet-wheel and pawl, with an adjusting device for varying the number of teeth advanced at one stroke of the pawl so as to cut different lengths of wire. Sargeant's nailing-machine. Nail-mak′ing Machine′. Nails were formerly forged from the bar, which was reduced by hand to the proper size. In 1606, Sir Davis Bulmer obtained letters-patent for a machine for cutting nail-rods by water-power. The details of his invention are unknown, no records of English patents prior to 1617 existing. In 1618, Clement Dawbeny patented an improvement on Bulmer's machine, its object being to remedy the waste that comonly grewe and happened of the iron which was usually cutt into the said small rodd by reason of the often heating, vnapt instruments, and devises then vsed and practised for the cutting
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
Henry VIII. It was encouraged by his successors. Hampton Court Palace yet displays their tapestry on its walls. These hangings were a very ornamental accession to the bare walls of the buildings of some centuries since. Arras, Brussels, Antwerp, and Valenciennes excelled in the manufacture, but the best known at the present day is the factory at the Gobelin's, near Paris. It is named after Giles Gobelin, a French dyer, of the reign of Francis I, and was established by Henry IV. about 1606, and much enlarged by the renowned Colbert in 1666. It is said to have been conducted by Flemish artists. Hand tapestry is embroidered by the needle, woolen or silken threads being worked into the meshes of a fabric. Basse lisse is woven upon a loom. The warp is horizontal, and is stretched above the pattern to be copied. The weft is inserted by a flute, which partakes of the characters of a needle and a shuttle A treadle arrangement depresses some of the threads and forms a parted s
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
. The same material, made from thinner pulp, is employed in the manufacture of umbrellas, fans, and fire-screens. Bark-paper, which is to be painted, is first passed through a solution of alum-water, to destroy the fine filaments which are commonly found on the upper side of the sheet as it lies in the silk tissueframe; the lower side in contact with the tissue being much more smooth. For many uses, when only one color is required, the coloring material is added to the pulp. See also page 1606. Paper is made in Siam from the root of a tree called the ton koy, four or five feet in length, and sold in bundles of 10,000 pieces for 25 cents. The roots are first soaked in fresh water, and then transferred to tanks with lime-water where they are left for several days. They are then boiled in a peculiarly constructed pan, the lower part of which, exposed to the fire, is made of sheet-iron, while the upper part is of basket-work. After being well steamed in these vessels, it is taken
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 10 (search)
day fool there but would give a piece of silver; there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.] III.—The Popham colony on the Kennebec. [so much interest was excited by the voyages of Gosnold and Waymouth, that two companies were formed in England for the settlement of America,—the London company and the Plymouth company. Each company sent out a colony in 1606; but the ship sent by the Plymouth company was taken by a Spanish fleet, while the other colony reached Virginia. Then in June, 1607, the Plymouth company sent another colony, under command of Captain George Popham, he being in a vessel called the gift of God, accompanied by the Mary and John, Captain Raleigh Gilbert. They reached the mouth of the River Sachadehoc, or Kennebec, in August; and the narrative proceeds as follows, as told by Strachey, secretary of the Virginia Colony.] Capta
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Book XI: Captain John Smith in Virginia (A. D. 1606-1631.) (search)
Book XI: Captain John Smith in Virginia (A. D. 1606-1631.) The first four of the following extracts are from Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (edition of 1626), pp. 39-49. The next four are from the Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, by William Strachey, secretary of the Virginia Colony. Reprinted by the Hakluyt Society (1849), pp. 49-52, 57, 58, 80, 81, 110, II. The ninth is from the Generall Historie, p. 219. The tenth is from A Description of New England, by Captain John Smith, printed in the Massachusetts Historical Collections, 3d series, vol. VI. pp. 109, 121. The eleventh is from the Generall Historie, pp. 121-123. The last two are from Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England or anywhere, by Captaine John Smith, sometimes Governour of Virginia, and Admirall of New England. London, 1631. Reprinted in Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. III. pp. 7, 29, 30, 44. There is a memoir of Captain Smith,
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
e Colony during the same period. Gov. Dudley was twice married; by his first wife, Dorothy, he had five children, who came to New England; she d. 27 Dec. 1643, and he m. Katherine, wid. of Samuel Hagburne, 14 Ap. 1644, by whom he had three children. Besides these, it is not improbable that Thomas Dudley, of Emanuel College 1626, A. M. 1630, was also his son; but there is no evidence that he came to New England, and he is not named in the Governor's will. The known children were Samuel, b. 1606; Ann, b. 1613, m. Simon Bradstreet; Patience, m. Daniel Denison, and d. 1690; Sarah, m. Maj. Benjamin Keayne, and——Pacy; she d. 3 Nov. 1659, leaving an only child Ann (by her first husband), who m. Edward Lane, and Col. Nicholas Paige, and d. without surviving issue, 30 June 1704; and thus this branch of the Dudley family, and the entire family of Capt. Robert Keayne, became extinct; Mercy, b. 27 Sept. 1621, m. Rev. John Woodbridge, and d. at Newbury 1 July 1691, having had eleven children, t
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, D. (search)
e Colony during the same period. Gov. Dudley was twice married; by his first wife, Dorothy, he had five children, who came to New England; she d. 27 Dec. 1643, and he m. Katherine, wid. of Samuel Hagburne, 14 Ap. 1644, by whom he had three children. Besides these, it is not improbable that Thomas Dudley, of Emanuel College 1626, A. M. 1630, was also his son; but there is no evidence that he came to New England, and he is not named in the Governor's will. The known children were Samuel, b. 1606; Ann, b. 1613, m. Simon Bradstreet; Patience, m. Daniel Denison, and d. 1690; Sarah, m. Maj. Benjamin Keayne, and——Pacy; she d. 3 Nov. 1659, leaving an only child Ann (by her first husband), who m. Edward Lane, and Col. Nicholas Paige, and d. without surviving issue, 30 June 1704; and thus this branch of the Dudley family, and the entire family of Capt. Robert Keayne, became extinct; Mercy, b. 27 Sept. 1621, m. Rev. John Woodbridge, and d. at Newbury 1 July 1691, having had eleven children, t
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