Named Entity Results, 1642 AD

r with the Pequod Indians (q. v.). At the beginning of 1638 he succeeded his uncle, Canonicus, as sachem or king of the Narragansets; and in March he granted lands on the island of Rhode Island to William Coddington and others to make a settlement. Entering into an agreement with Uncas, sachem of the Mohegans, not to make war upon each other without first appealing to the English, he fell under the suspicions of the latter, and was cited to appear before the governor and council at Boston in 1642. Nothing being found against him, he was dismissed with honor. It was the policy of the English to foment a rivalry between the Mohegans and Narragansets, and Uncas was induced to insult and injure Miantonomoh as much as it was in his power to do. When Uncas pressed hard upon Miantonomoh, the latter made war. The Narragansets were beaten and their sachem was made prisoner. Uncas conveyed him to the English at Hartford, where, by the advice and consent of the magistrates and elders of the C

to De Vries, claimed everything ; and these New-Englanders went on and had no trouble in finding Indians to sell them unoccupied lands. Indeed, the Indians were ready to sell the same lands to as many people as possible. At the middle of the summer they had planted corn and built trading-posts on Salem Creek, N. J., and near the mouth of the Schuylkill in Pennsylvania. Both settlements prospered, and the New Haven colony took them under their protection They came to grief in the spring of 1642 The intrusion of the New-Englanders was as distasteful to the Swedes on the Delaware as to the Dutch; and when the Dutch commissioner at Fort Nassau was instructed by Governor Kieft to expel them, the Swedes assisted the Dutch with energy. The New-Englanders yielded without resistance. They were carried prisoners to Manhattan, and thence sent home to Connecticut. In 1644 a vessel was fitted out by a Boston company, and ascended the Delaware in search of the great interior lakes of which ru

Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, The name of the Presbyterian Church operating in the Northern section of the United States. The first church was established by John Young, a Puritan minister, on Long Island in 1640; another was organized in Hempstead in 1642, and in the following year services were held in New York. From these beginnings the growth was slow until after the Revolutionary period, when it became more rapid. The Presbyterians are Calvinistic in doctrine and in policy; have four supervising boards, viz., the session, consisting of a bench of elders elected in each individual church; the presbytery, composed of all the ministers in a limited section; the synod, made up of delegates, ministerial and lay, from the presbyteries over which it has jurisdiction; and the general assembly, constituted of members elected by the presbyteries. This last body is the supreme judicial and legislative court of the Church. In 1741 a division occurred owing to

To-mo-chi-chi, 1642- Creek chief; born in Georgia about 1642; met Oglethorpe in Savannah in friendly conference early in 1733. He was then ninety-one years old, of commanding person and grave demeanor, and though for some reason he had been banished from the Lower Creeks, he had great influence throughout the confederacy as a brave chief and wise sachem. Mary Musgrave, the half-breed wife of a South Carolina trader, acted as interpreter. He pledged his unwavering friendship for the Engl1642; met Oglethorpe in Savannah in friendly conference early in 1733. He was then ninety-one years old, of commanding person and grave demeanor, and though for some reason he had been banished from the Lower Creeks, he had great influence throughout the confederacy as a brave chief and wise sachem. Mary Musgrave, the half-breed wife of a South Carolina trader, acted as interpreter. He pledged his unwavering friendship for the English, and he kept his word. A satisfactory treaty was made, by which the English obtained sovereignty over the ___domain between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers, and westward as far as the extent of their tide-waters. Oglethorpe distributed presents among the friendly Indians. In the spring of 1734 To-mo-chi-chi went with Oglethorpe to England. He was accompanied by his wife, their adopted son and nephew, and five chiefs. They were cordially received in England, and were objects of great cur

or, or in respect of, his or her religion, nor in the free exercise thereof within this province ...nor any way compelled to the beleefe or exercise of any other religion against his or her consent ......April, 1649 Assembly grants Lord Baltimore power to seize and dispose of any lands purchased of any Indian, unless the purchaser could show a lawful title thereto from his lordship under the great seal......1649 Mr. Durand, elder of a Puritan or Independent church founded in Virginia in 1642 (from Massachusetts), and which was broken up and driven out by that government, obtains permission of the lord proprietary's government to settle with his people at Providence or Anne Arundel, now Annapolis......1649 Commission granted by Lord Baltimore to Robert Brooke, as commander of a county (Charles) around about and next adjoining to the place which he should settle, on the south side of the Patuxent, with a colony he was transporting to Maryland......Sept. 20, 1649 During the te

policy, he dissolves them......February, 1642 George Baxter, an exile from New England, English secretary; salary 250 guilders ($95)......1642 Johannes Megapolensis the first clergyman in Rensselaerwyck, with a residence and 1,000 guilders ($380)......1642 Anne Hutchinson takes refuge near New Rochelle from religious persecution in Massachusetts......1642 Dutch at Fort Orange seek in vain to ransom Jogues (a French missionary, prisoner of the Iroquois), but his life is spared......1642 Kieft rashly provokes an Indian war by sending soldiers to destroy the Indians at Pavonia and Corlear Hook......Feb. 25, 1643 Thus aroused, the Indians begin a war of retaliation......1643 They attack trading-vessels on the river......August, 1643 Capt. John Underhill, a hero of the Pequod War, enters the Dutch service......September, 1643 Anne Hutchinson killed, the settlement destroyed, and her granddaughter, eight years old, captured......1643 Throgmorton's settlement a

a Quaker), arrives from England with news of the repeal of Coddington's power......Feb. 18, 1653 Assembly of island towns, Portsmouth and Newport, restore code of 1647, and elect John Sandford as president......May 17-18, 1653 Providence and Warwick with Portsmouth and Newport in one General Assembly re-establish code of 1647, forbid sale of liquors to Indians, and prohibit French and Dutch trade with them......Aug. 31, 1654 Pawtuxet men withdraw allegiance to Massachusetts, given in 1642, and transfer it to Rhode Island......May 26, 1658 Block Island is granted for public services to Governor Endicott and three others, Oct. 19, 1658, who sell it to Simon Ray and eight associates in 1660; they begin a settlement......1661 Settlement of Misquamicut, now Westerly, begun......1661 Charter of Rhode Island and Providence plantations obtained from Charles II. by John Clarke, agent for the colony......July 8, 1663 [This charter continued in force till 1843-180 years.]

Whalley, Edward 1620-1678 Regicide; born in England, presumably about 1620; joined the Parliamentary party in the revolution of 1642; led a command which defeated the cavalry of Sir Marmaduke Langdale at Naseby in 1645, for which he was appointed colonel. Later he had charge of King Charles at Hampton Court, and was one of the members of the high court of justice which pronounced the death penalty against him, and also one of the signers of his death warrant. He fled to America with William Goffe, his son-inlaw, after the restoration. He died in Hadley, Mass., about 1678.

Wheeler, Thomas 1620-1686 Military officer; born in England about 1620; removed to Concord, Mass., in 1642; took part and was wounded in King Philip's War; was military escort, in July, 1675, to Capt. Edward Hutchinson, of Boston, who was appointed to treat with the Indians in the Nipmuck country. His Narrative of that expedition is found in the Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society. He died in Concord, Mass., Dec. 16, 1686.

Wyatt, Sir Francis 1575-1644 Governor; born in England, presumably in 1575; made governor of Virginia in 1621; brought with him a new constitution which allowed trial by jury, annual meetings of the Assembly subject to the call of the governor, and all former franchises and immunities. This constitution became the model for all later forms of government in the American colonies. He returned to England upon the death of his father, Sir John Wyatt, in 1626, but was again made governor in 1639. He permanently returned to England in 1642, and died in Bexley in 1644.