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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Susquehanna settlers. (search)
In 1779 and 1780 they again returned and occupied the valley. In the meanwhile the titles of the Penns had passed to the State, and although the struggle was kept up after the Revolution, negotiations were more direct. Pennsylvania finally confirmed the title of the Connecticut settlers on their payment of a nominal sum for their land, and compensated the Pennsylvania claimants with other lands and with money. The Examination of the Connecticut claim to lands in Pennsylvania, written by William Smith, was published in Philadelphia in 1774, and A plea in vindication of the Connecticut title to the contested lands West of the province of New York, written by Benjamin Trumbull, was published in New Haven in the same year. The Continental Congress, to whom the dispute was referred, decided in favor of Pennsylvania in 1781. The cession of her western lands by Connecticut to the general government of the United States ended all controversy. See Connecticut; Pennymite and Yankee War.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trumbull, Benjamin 1735-1820 (search)
Trumbull, Benjamin 1735-1820 Historian; born in Hebron, Conn., Dec. 19, 1735; graduated at Yale College in 1759, and studied theology under Rev. Eleazer Wheelock; pastor in North Haven for nearly sixty years. His publications include General history of the United States of America; Complete history of Connecticut from 1630 till 1713 (2 volumes). He died in North Haven, Conn., Feb. 2, 1820.
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: fiction I — Brown, Cooper. (search)
vember, 1804, he married Miss Elizabeth Linn of New York, and was thereafter an exemplary husband, father, and drudge, who produced pamphlets, large parts of his magazine, and practically the whole of the useful American Register (1807-11). The fame of his novels, of which he claimed to think little, became a legend, but new editions were not called for. In 1809 he was elected to honorary membership in the New York Historical Society, with such notables as Lindley Murray, Noah Webster, Benjamin Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, Josiah Quincy, and George Clinton. He died of consumption 19 February, 1810. In England he was well known for at least a generation. Blackwood's praised him with the fiery pen of John Neal; Scott borrowed from him the names of two characters in Guy Mannering; Godwin himself owed to Wieland a hint for Mandeville. In his native country Brown has stood, with occasional flickerings of interest, firmly fixed as a literary ancestor. There is little to note in American
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
avels (Abbe Robin), 212 Travels through the interior parts of North America, etc., 192 Treadwell, Thomas, 148 Treatise concerning religious affections, 64, 66, 73 Trenchard, John, 118 n. Trent, W. P., 224 n., 280 n. Tristram Shandy, 236 Triumph at Plattsburg, the, 222, 226 Triumph of Infidelity, 165 Trollope, Mrs., 207, 241 True relation, a (Smith), 16, 19 True relation of the Flourishing state of Pennsylvania, 151 True travels, the (Smith), 17, 18 Trumbull, Benjamin, 292 Trumbull, John, 139, 164, 171-173, 174, 233 Tucker, George, 320, 320 n. Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 312 Tuckerman, Henry Theodore, 243, 244 Tudor, William, 240 Turell, Jane, 158, 159, 161 Turgot, 91, 106, 147 Twenty considerations against sin, 112 Twenty-six years of the life of an Actor-manager, 221 n. Two Admirals, the, 302 Two years before the mast, 321 Tyler, Pres., John, 250 Tyler, M. C., 135 n. Tyler, Royall, 180, 218-219, 227, 234, 235
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 17: writers on American history, 1783-1850 (search)
4-92), which is of the first rank in our historical compositions. Had its theme been more extended, it would have become a household memory in the country. Benjamin Trumbull's (1735-1820) History of Connecticut (2 vols., 1818) and Robert Proud's (1728-1813) History of Pennsylvania (2 vols., 1797-98) were of scholarly standards buful work. It marked the author as a man of scientific mind, worthy of equal respect with his son, the delightful Autocrat. The next to take up the task was Benjamin Trumbull, whose history of Connecticut has already been mentioned. He planned to write a history of the United States in three volumes and prepared for it by collecthis History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent. At the time neither Hildreth nor Tucker had written, and only Pitkin, Holmes, and Trumbull had undertaken a task like his. They were all didactic. Bancroft produced a work of a different character. There was a lofty and sonorous sense of detachment i
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 22: divines and moralists, 1783-1860 (search)
u 2d, who was a founder and the first President of Tufts College. he protested against that pioneer Universalist's preaching the final salvation of all mankind; and above all he protested against the defection of his own son, the Rev. Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1784-1812), whose ordination sermon (1805) he nevertheless preached, not without a note of fatherly foreboding. The Buckminsters were of the Edwards stock. The staunch and earnest father was a contemporary of Dwight, Barlow, and Trumbull at Yale; the scholarly, eloquent, and saintly son was an immediate predecessor of Andrews Norton, and a contemporary of W. E. Channing, Charles Lowell, and Washington Allston at Harvard. But for his father's opposition, he might have become assistant to James Freeman, whom he heard with admiration at King's Chapel. He taught Daniel Webster Latin at Phillips Exeter, and tried to persuade his pupil to take part in the school exercises in public speaking. His work, in fact, is full of seeds
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
ramp, Tramp, Tramp, 285 Transferred Ghost, the, 386 Translation of the Gospels, 210 Traubel, 263 n., 272 Travels in New England and New York, 201, 201 n., 203, 205 Travels, Voyages and Adventures of Gilbert Go-Ahead, The, 154 Treason's lost device, 283 Trent, W. P., 304 Tribune (N. Y.), 156, 187, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 266 n. Trimmer, Mrs., 397, 400 Trinity College, 277 Troilus and Cressida, 361 Trollope, Mrs., 127 Trowbridge, J. T., 402, 405 Trumbull, Benjamin, 106, 108, 111 Trumbull, John, 150, 207 Truth about Horace, the, 241 Tucker, George, 110, 111 Tucker, St. George, 305 Tuckerman, H. T., 58 n. Tudor, William, 105, 164 Tufts College, 207 n. Turn of the Screw, the, 375 Turner, J. A., 348, 349, 350, 354 Tuskegee, 324 Twice told tales, 16, 19, 21, 63, 64, 173 Two Rivulets, the, 265 Two years before the Mast, 225, 399, 400 n. Tyler, President, 93 n. Tyler, Moses Coit, 149 Tyler, Royall, 241 Tyndall,