Named Entity Results, 1736 AD

ees for founding the colony of Georgia. Oglethorpe accompanied the first company of emigrants thither, and early in 1733 founded the town of Savannah on Yamacraw Bluff. A satisfactory conference with the surrounding Indians, with Mary Musgrave (q. v.) as interpreter, resulted in a treaty which secured sovereignty to the English over a large territory. Oglethorpe went to England in 1734, leaving the colony in care of others, and taking natives with him. He did not return to Georgia until 1736, when he took with him several cannon and about 150 Scotch Highlanders skilled in the military art. This was the first British army in Georgia. With him also came Rev. John Wesley (q. v.) and his brother Charles, for the purpose of giving spiritual instruction to the colonists. The elements of prosperity were now with the colonists, who numbered more than 500 souls; but the unwise restrictions of the trustees were a serious bar to advancement. Many Germans, also, now settled in Georgia, am

Payson, Phillips 1736-1801 Clergyman; born in Walpole, Mass., Jan. 18, 1736; graduated at Harvard College in 1754; studied theology, and was pastor of the Congregational Church in Chelsea, Mass., in 1757-1801. His publications include Transactions of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Battle of Lexington; Death of Washington, etc. He died in Chelsea, Mass., Jan. 11, 1801.

Pettit, Charles 1736-1806 Legislator; born in Amwell, N. J., in 1736; admitted to the bar in 1770; appointed secretary to Governor Franklin of New Jersey in 1772; was also secretary to Governor Livingston, Franklin's successor. He served as quartermaster during the War of the Revolution. He was elected to Congress in 1785, and was instrumental in obtaining Pennsylvania's adoption of the United States Constitution. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 4, 1806. Pettit, Charles 1736-1806 Legislator; born in Amwell, N. J., in 1736; admitted to the bar in 1770; appointed secretary to Governor Franklin of New Jersey in 1772; was also secretary to Governor Livingston, Franklin's successor. He served as quartermaster during the War of the Revolution. He was elected to Congress in 1785, and was instrumental in obtaining Pennsylvania's adoption of the United States Constitution. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 4, 1806.

Poor, Enoch 1736- Military officer; born in Andover, Mass., June 21, 1736; became a merchant in Exeter, N. H. After the fight at Lexington he was appointed colonel by the Provincial Congress, and after the evacuation of Boston his regiment was ordered to join the troops in New York that invaded Canada. In February, 1777, he was appointed brigadier-general, and as such commanded troops in the campaign against Burgoyne, after whose surrender he joined the army under Washington in Pennsylvania. He was in the movements near Philadelphia late in the year; spent the winter amid the snows of Valley Forge, and in June, 1778, was engaged in the battle of Monmouth. He accompanied Sullivan on his expedition against the Indians in 1779. When the corps of light infantry was formed (August, 1780), Poor was given command of one of the two brigades. He was killed in a duel with a French officer near Hackensack, N. J., Sept. 8, 1780. In announcing his death, Washington said he was an office

Prince, Thomas 1687-1758 Clergyman; born in Sandwich, Mass., May 15, 1687; graduated at Harvard College in 1707, and, going to England in 1709, preached there until 1717, when he returned to America, and was ordained minister of the Old South Church, Boston (1718), as colleague of Dr. Sewall. In 1703 he began a collection of private and public papers relating to the civil and religious history of New England, and continued these labors for fifty years. These he published under the title of The chronological history of England (1736 and 1756). The history was brought down only to 1633, as he spent so much time on the introductory epitome, beginning with the creation. His manuscripts were deposited in the Old South Church, and were partially destroyed by the British in 1775-76. The remains, with his books, form a part of the Public Library of Boston. He died in Boston, Oct. 22, 1758.

Shippen, William 1736-1808 Physician; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 21, 1736; graduated at Princeton in 1754; studied medicine in London and Edinburgh, and began its practice in Philadelphia in 1762. In the autumn of that year he began the first course of anatomical lectures ever given in the United States. In 1765 lie was chosen Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the new medical school of the College of Philadelphia, of which he was the founder. In 1776 he entered the medical department of the army, and, from April, 1777, to January, 1781, was its director-general. He withdrew from the practice of his profession in 1798, and died in Germantown, Pa., July 11, 1808.

Smith, Joshua Hett 1736-1818 Lawyer: born in New York City in 1736; became successful in his profession; was a Tory during the Revolution, and was connected with the treason of Benedict Arnold, who, with Andre, passed the night of Sept. 22, 1780, at the Smith house. When the conspiracy was consummated Smith, for some unexplained reason, declined to place Andre on board the Vulture, but went with him to a place of supposed safety, and before leaving him changed coats, in order to afford him1736; became successful in his profession; was a Tory during the Revolution, and was connected with the treason of Benedict Arnold, who, with Andre, passed the night of Sept. 22, 1780, at the Smith house. When the conspiracy was consummated Smith, for some unexplained reason, declined to place Andre on board the Vulture, but went with him to a place of supposed safety, and before leaving him changed coats, in order to afford him better protection. Smith was afterwards tried by a military court and acquitted, but was rearrested by the civil authorities. After passing a few months in prison he escaped to New York in woman's dress, and was there protected by loyalists. He went to England at the conclusion of hostilities, but later returned to the United States. He was the author of An authentic narrative of the causes that led to the death of Major Andre;. He died in New York City in 1818. See Andre, John.

Spottswood, Sir Alexander 1676-1740 Colonial governor; born in Tangier, Africa, in 1676; served in the army under the Duke of Marlborough; was wounded in the battle of Blenheim; was governor of Virginia in 1710-23. In 1736 he was colonial postmaster, and in 1739 commander of the forces intended to operate against Florida. The French, in pursuance of their policy for spreading their dominions in America, had always concealed from the English all knowledge of the country beyond the Apalachian range of mountains. In 1714 Governor Spottswood resolved to acquire some knowledge of that mysterious region, and he went in person, with a few attendants, over those lofty ranges to the headwaters of the Tennessee and Kentucky rivers. He made the first certain discovery of a passage through those everlasting hills; but the country was very little known to Europeans until the middle of the eighteenth century. Spottswood was a zealous friend of the College of William and Mary and of effort

Steam navigation. The value of steam in navigation was demonstrated by Denys Papin in a model steamboat on the Fulda, near Cassel, in 1707. This was soon destroyed by a mob of boatmen. Jonathan Hulls, of London, England, set forth the idea in a patent obtained in 1736. Bernouilli experimented with a steamboat, using artificial fins, and Genevois with one using the duck's-foot propeller, in 1757. In 1775 M. Perier navigated the Seine with a small steamboat, and in 1783 Claude, Comte de Jouffroy, constructed an engine which propelled a boat on the Saone. Immediately after the close of the Revolutionary War, James Rumsey, of Maryland, propelled a vessel by steam on the Potomac River, a fact certified to by Washington. In 1785 an association was formed to aid him, which was called the Rumsey Society, of which Benjamin Franklin was president. Nothing came of it. The next year John Fitch, a native of Connecticut, exhibited a boat on the Delaware propelled by steam; and in 1788

Stokes, Anthony 1736-1799 Jurist; born in England in 1736; admitted to the bar in London; made chief-justice of Georgia in 1768, and was councillor of the colony in 1772-82. When the Revolutionary War began he was imprisoned but soon exchanged. His property was confiscated in 1778. He settled in Charleston, S. C., and when that city surrendered he returned to England. His publications in, elude View of the Constitution of the British colonies in North America and the West Indies; Narrat1736; admitted to the bar in London; made chief-justice of Georgia in 1768, and was councillor of the colony in 1772-82. When the Revolutionary War began he was imprisoned but soon exchanged. His property was confiscated in 1778. He settled in Charleston, S. C., and when that city surrendered he returned to England. His publications in, elude View of the Constitution of the British colonies in North America and the West Indies; Narrative of the official conduct of Anthony Stokes, etc. He died in London, England, March 27, 1799.