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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
capture Elizabethtown, N. J. Jan. 23, 1777 Letters of marque and reprisal granted by England against American shipsFeb. 6, 1777 Five vessels belonging to a British supply fleet are sunk near Amboy, N. J. Feb. 26, 1777 Vermont declares itself an independent State, Jan., 1777, and presents a petition to Congress for admission into the confederacy, which was deniedApril 8, 1777 Danbury, Conn., destroyed by troops under ex-Governor Tryon April 26, 1777 Colonel Meigs, with whale-boats from Guilford, attacks the British forces at Sag Harbor, destroying vessels and stores and taking ninety prisonersMay 23, 1777 Stars and Stripes adopted by CongressJune 14, 1777 British under General Howe evacuate New Jersey, crossing to Staten IslandJune 30, 1777 British under Burgoyne appear before Ticonderoga July 1, 1777 American garrison withdraw from New York July 6, 1777 Battle of Hubbardton, Vt July 7, 1777 British Gen. Richard Prescott surprised and captured near Newport by Lieutenant-Colo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steiner, Bernard Christian 1867- (search)
Steiner, Bernard Christian 1867- Educator; born in Guilford, Conn., Aug. 13, 1867; graduated at Yale College in 1888; became associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University in 1894, and Dean and Professor of Constitutional Law at the Baltimore University in 1897. He is the author of Education in Maryland; Education in Connecticut; Institutions and Civil government of Maryland; History of Guilford, Conn., etc. Steiner, Bernard Christian 1867- Educator; born in Guilford, Conn., Aug. 13, 1867; graduated at Yale College in 1888; became associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University in 1894, and Dean and Professor of Constitutional Law at the Baltimore University in 1897. He is the author of Education in Maryland; Education in Connecticut; Institutions and Civil government of Maryland; History of Guilford, Conn., etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitfield, Henry 1597-1658 (search)
Whitfield, Henry 1597-1658 Clergyman; born in England in 1597; received a university education; admitted to the bar, and afterwards took orders in the Church of England; emigrated to New England and settled in New Haven in 1637; was one of the founders of Guilford, Conn., in 1639. He returned to England in 1650, and was minister in Winchester, where he died in 1658. He wrote A farther discovery of the present State of the Indians in New-England, etc.
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