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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Haven colony. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Non-conformists, (search)
Non-conformists,
A title given to those Protestants of England who refused to conform to the doctrines and ceremonials of the Established Church in that country; first applied in 1572. Ninety years afterwards (1662) about 2,000 ministers of the Established Church, unwilling to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles of Faith, seceded, and were called Dissenters, a name used at the present time in speaking of all British Protestants who are not attached to the Church of England.
The English-American colonies were first peopled chiefly by Non-conformists and Dissenters.
Philip, King
Sachem of the Wampanoag Indians; Indian name Pometacom, or Metacomet; was the youngest son of Massasoit (q. v.), the friend of the English; became sachem in 1662.
His wife was Woo-to-nek-a-nus-ke, daughter of Witamo, of the Pokanokets, on the eastern shore of Narraganset Bay.
Both Philip and his tribe had been corrupted by contact with the English—with imaginary wants—and they were so anxious to have things like the white people that they had sold off a large portion of their lands to procure such luxuries.
Of Philip's life before he became sachem very little is known.
He had witnessed frequent broils between the English and the Narragansets, and felt that his people were often wronged.
Yet he respected the treaty made by his father and renewed by his dead brother.
In 1665 he went to Nantucket to kill an Indian who had profaned the name of his father, according to an Indian law that whoever should speak evil of the dead should be put to death by the next of kin.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
Susquehanna settlers.
The charter of James I., in 1620, to the Plymouth Company, covered the territory extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and lying between lat. 40° and 46° N. Connecticut purchased a part of this territory of the Plymouth Company in 1631, with the boundary the same on the west and lat. 41° on the south.
This sale was confirmed by Charles II.
in 1662.
The grant of Charles II.
to Penn extended to lat. 42° N. Thus the Connecticut grant overlapped that of Pennsylvania one degree.
In 1753 an association called the Susquehanna Company was formed, and, with the consent of the Connecticut Assembly, applied to the crown for leave to plant a new colony west of the Delaware.
It was granted, and the company sent agents to the convention at Albany in 1754, who succeeded in obtaining from representatives of the Six Nations the cession of a tract of land on the eastern branch of the Susquehanna River—the beautiful valley of Wyoming.
The proprietaries of Pennsylva<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Talcott , John 1630 -1688 (search)
Talcott, John 1630-1688
Military officer; born in Braintree, England, about 1630; came to the United States with his father, and settled in Boston, and later in Hartford, Conn.; was made ensign of colonial troops in 1650; became captain in 1660; elected a deputy of the colony of Connecticut; treasurer of the colony in 1660-76; and was one of the patentees named in the charter granted to Connecticut in 1662 by Charles I. He served in the Indian War of 1676 as major, and in June of that year, at the head of the standing army of Connecticut, accompanied by 200 Mohican and Pequod Indians, fought a successful battle at the Housatonic.
He was promoted lieutenant-colonel during the war. Many of his official papers are preserved among the State records in Hartford.
He died in Hartford, Conn., July 23, 1688.