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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
..May 6, 1789 First General Assembly under new constitution meets......Nov. 3, 1789 General Assembly meets for public worship in St. Paul's church, Augusta, on the first national Thanksgiving under the constitution......Nov. 26, 1789 Colonel Willet gains the confidence of Creek Indians, and Alexander McGillivray, son of a Scotchman by a half-breed Creek, an enemy to the Americans and acknowledged head of the Creeks; McGillivray with eight warriors accompanies Willet to Philadelphia and Willet to Philadelphia and New York, when a treaty is concluded, ceding land south of Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers......Aug. 13, 1790 Two brass cannon, taken at Yorktown, are presented to the Chatham artillery of Savannah, by General Washington, in appreciation of their part in his reception in Savannah; one bears the inscription, Surrendered by the capitulation of York Town, Oct. 19, 1781. Honi soit qui mal y pense—G. R. with the imperial crown......1791 General Washington, on a Presidential tour, arrives at Savann
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
vel top surface and canted sides. See curb-roof; man-sard roof; etc. Trun′dle. A pair of round disks united by round bars or rundles which act as teeth. A form of pinion; also known as a wallower or lantern wheel. A trundle-wheel. See also lantern-wheel. Trun′dle-bed. A low bed on small wheels trundled under another in the daytime, and at night drawn out for a servant or children to sleep on. A truckle-bed (which see). My wife and I on the high bed in our chamber, and Willet [the maid] in the trundle-bed. — Pepys's Diary, 1667. Trun′dle-head. 1. (Nautical.) The head of a capstan into whose peripheral sockets the capstanbars are inserted. The trundle-head is from 3 to 5 feet in diameter, and has a handspike-socket for each foot of its periphery. The length of the bars is nearly three times the diameter of the trundle-head, say from 8 to 14 feet. 2. (Gearing.) One of the end disks of a trundlewheel. Trun′dle-shot. （Projectile.) A bar o
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 1: Ancestry. (search)
; and he died on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the age of thirty-five. He was buried the next day with the respect due to his memory. His funeral was attended by the Vice-President (John Adams), the Secretary of War (Henry Knox), and the Senators and Representatives in Congress from Massachusetts. The first Congress under the Constitution was then in session in New York. His pall was upheld by eight officers of the late army: General Webb, and Colonels Bauman, Walker, Hamilton, Willet, Platt, Smith, and White. The hearse was preceded by a regiment of artillery and the Society of the Cincinnati. New York Journal and Weekly Register, Sept. 16, 1789: Gazette of the United States, Sept. 19, 1789; Massachusetts Centinel, Sept. 26, 1789 The tombstone of Major Sumner is in the centre of St. Paul's Churchyard, on Broadway. It is by the side of that of Major John Lucas of the Georgia line, who died the month preceding. Both stones,—lying horizontally, with hardly any spa
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
on the twenty-fifth of February, had directed Washington to protect the inland frontier and chastise the Seneca Indians. Of the two natural routes to their country, both now traversed by railroads, that of the Susquehanna was selected for three thousand men of the best continental troops, who were to rally at Wyoming; while one thousand or more of the men of New York were to move from the Mohawk river. Before they could be ready, a party of five or six hundred men, led by Van Schaick and Willet, made a swift march of three days into the country of the Onondagas, and, without the loss of a man, destroyed their settlement. The great expedition was more tardy. Its command, which Gates declined, devolved on Sullivan, to whom Washington in May gave repeatedly the May. instruction: Move as light as possible even from the first onset. Should time be lost in transporting the troops and stores, the provisions will be consumed, and the whole enterprise may be defeated. Reject every ar
The Daily Dispatch: April 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fifty dollars reward. (search)
Virginia State Convention.forty-ninth day. Thursday, April 11, 1861. The Convention was called to order at 10 o'clock. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Bosserman, of the Universalist Church. Mr. Harvie, of Amelia, presented a series of resolutions adopted by the people of Nottoway, in favor of immediate secession. Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Equality of taxation. Mr. Branch, of Petersburg, who was entitled to the floor, gave way to Mr. Willet, of Monongalia, who desired to make a statement. Mr. Willey said that he had indicated his purpose last evening to vote for his original resolutions in preference to the substitute.--He had, however, since been appealed to by gentlemen for whom he had the highest respect, to accept the substitute as a compromise, and in view of all the circumstances he had concluded that this was now his proper course. He therefore hoped that those who thought with him on the subject would support the substitute, preferring a
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
t of the Penitentiary. They all went from here by the steamer New England, on the 3d instant, to Boston. The chesapeake did not coal here. She called off the harbor and took on board Captain Parker, formerly of the privateer Retribution, who took command. Our citizens generally regret that this city has unwillingly offered temporary shelter to the conductor of the scheme, and that any person from this place should be concerned in it. Public opinion here condemns the act entirely. Captain Willet and the passengers and crew of the steamer have been provided for by the steamer New England to-day. A telegram from Portland, Me., dated the 11th says: The steamer New England arrived this evening from St. John, bringing Captain Willetts and a position of the crew of the Chesapeake, all of whom, with the exception of the mate, who is badly wounded, proceeded to Boston. Captain Willetts reports having met two steamers bound east, undoubtedly in pursuit of the pirates — both sid