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Swan's Island
A HISTORY OF SWAN'S ISLAND, MAINE. H. vV. SMALL, M. D, ELLSWORTH, ME.: HANCOCK COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1898. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER. PAGE. I. INTRODUCTION-ABORIGINES-DISCOVERY, 3 II. PURCHASE - SETTLEME:1'-;T AND LAND TITLES, III. A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF Co1... JAMES SWAN, 44 IV. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ]~ARLY SET-.. TLERS, 59 V. GoTT's lsLAND, 159 VI. Tnrt FisI-IINti INDUSTRY, 175 VII. SYNOPSIS OF THE MUNICIPAL RECORDS, 204 VIII. MISCELLANEOUS, 2 33 HISTORY OF SWAN'S ISLAND. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION-ABORIGINES - DISCOVERY. UPON the verv threshold of this historical sketch I found myseif quite destitute of early public records. For over half a century from the settlement of this island until its organization as a plantation no municipal records were kept. But I have been fortunate in bringing to light many private family records, old deeds showing what lots were occupied by the pioneer settlers ; and writ ten mutual agree1nents, which seem to have been often the result of arbitration on any disputed point where dif ferent clain1s to land conflicted "vith one another. A great deal of the infonnation which I have received concerning the early settlers was obtained fro1n the oldest inhabitants of the island, many of who1n were children of the first settlers, and in a few instances the latter of the pioneer settlers then1selves. In this part, which I have obtained from the 1nemory of aged people, son1e errors 1nay appear, but in the n1ain it will be found correct, as a great· deal of pains has been taken to verify these records. -
War and Constitution-Making in Revolutionary Massachusetts, 1754-1788 James Fred Hrdlicka Garfield Heights, Ohio B.A. University
War and Constitution-Making in Revolutionary Massachusetts, 1754-1788 James Fred Hrdlicka Garfield Heights, Ohio B.A. University of Notre Dame, 2010 M.A. University of Virginia, 2012 A Dissertation presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Corcoran Department of History University of Virginia August 2016 Abstract Throughout the Revolutionary era, Americans embraced the capacity of constitutional government at all levels to mobilize power to achieve desired ends. This study explores how and why the inhabitants of one province-turned-state looked to the institutions, practices, and authority of constitutional government to address the myriad challenges they faced between the French and Indian War and the ratification of the United States Constitution. In these years, people in Massachusetts viewed constitutions as more than sets of theoretical propositions designed to limit the power of those who ruled, and they appreciated them not only because they provided opportunities to declare inviolable rights. Constitutions also comprised practical plans of government through which the populace could effectively mobilize power during times of greatest strain. War and its burdens thus formed the essential backdrop as inhabitants considered what made for legitimate and effective government. In no other context did government demand so much of them; at no other times were they presented with as many opportunities to consider the nature of their attachments to the state and to each other. This study properly situates the narrative of constitutional development by first examining the process by which authorities worked with the populace to mobilize men and resources for war and the specific contexts of governance in which that process occurred. -
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The Boston Tea Party: Activism Or Vandalism?
8th Grade American Revolution Inquiry The Boston Tea Party: Activism or Vandalism? “An Illustration Depicting the Boston Tea Party, 1881”, Digital Public Library of America Supporting Questions 1. Why were the colonists upset before the Tea Party and what actions had they already taken to try and resolve their problems with Great Britain? 2. What actually happened at the Tea Party on December 16, 1773? 3. Was Great Britain’s reaction to the Tea Party justified? THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION- NONCOMMERCIAL- SHAREALIKE 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE. 1 8th Grade American Revolution Inquiry Boston Tea Party: Activism or Vandalism? Kentucky Key KY Academic Expectations 2.20: Students understand, analyze, and interpret historical events, conditions, Ideas & trends, and issues to develop historical perspective. Enduring Understanding: Explain how the ideals of Enduring equality and personal liberty that developed during the colonial period were motivations for the Understanding American Revolution and proved instrumental in forging a new nation. Staging the Label a series of modern photographs as examples of “activism” or “vandalism” or “both”. Use this Question discussion to make an initial judgment about the Boston Tea Party. Supporting Question 1 Supporting Question 2 Supporting Question 3 Why were the colonists upset and What actually happened at the Tea Was Great Britain’s reaction to the what actions had they already taken Party on December 16, 1773? Tea Party justified? to resolve their problems with Great Britain? Formative Formative Formative Performance Task Performance Task Performance Task Create a T-Chart listing the colonists’ Draw a storyboard of the events that Develop a claim supported by grievances and the steps they had happened on December 16, 1773. -
The Public Career Op Elbridge Gerry Dissertation
THE PUBLIC CAREER OP ELBRIDGE GERRY DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By EUGENE FRANCIS KRAMER, B. S., A. M. The Ohio State University 1952 Approved by; Department of History TABLE OP CONTENTS Chapter Page . I Origins of- the Revolution, 1772-1776 1 II The Continental Congress, 1776-1785 31 III The Federal Constitution ■ 71 IV The Federal Congress, 1789-1793 95 V XYZ Affair 120 VI Final Services l60 VII Summary and Conclusions 179 Bibliography l88 Autobiography 203 - 11 - CHAPTER I Origins of the Revolution, 1772-1776 Elbridge Gerry was born on July 17, 17^4 in Marble head, Massachusetts, the third of twelve children born to Thomas and Elizabeth Gerry. Thomas Gerry was born in Devonshire, England, in 1713, and came to New England in 1740 as master of a merchant vessel. Here he met and married Elizabeth Greenleaf, the daughter of a prominent merchant. Marblehead at that time was an important com mercial town and Thomas Gerry built up a prosperous busi ness as a cod fisherman and general merchant. Elbridge, as a member of a well-to-do middle-class family, entered Harvard where he had an unspectacular career and was graduated in the upper half of the class of 1762. After leaving college, he worked in the offices of Gerry & Company learning the trade of merchant. Poli tics were not neglected, however, in favor of business, and Elbridge was prominent enough in the colonial dispute with England to be elected to the General Court (Massa chusetts’ colonial assembly) in 1772. -
The Financial Misadventures of Charles Bulfinch
✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦✧✦ The Financial Misadventures of Charles Bulfinch jay wickersham HIS is a story about money: how Boston architect Charles T Bulfinch (1763–1844) went bankrupt; how his leading client, Harrison Gray Otis (1765–1848), grew wealthy; and how the architect felt about the two men’s relative failures and suc- cesses. It is also a story that dramatizes the difficulties of archi- tectural practice in the early years of the United States, showing how the choice of career and the pursuit of status, riches, and influence could make or break a man. The relationship between Bulfinch and Otis is one of the foundation myths of American architecture, for rarely have two men collaborated to shape a city as Bulfinch and Otis shaped Boston between 1794 and 1817. Bulfinch, in his dual roles as first selectman and police superintendent, headed Boston’s municipal government and effectively served as its first town planner; acting as an architect, he designed most of the town’s major public and private buildings. Otis, a successful lawyer and politician, was a pioneer of large-scale real estate develop- ment; he built his fortune through the development of Beacon Hill, which would become Boston’s most expensive residen- tial enclave. Bulfinch planned and designed all of Otis’s major projects, including his three homes, each one larger than the last. Bulfinch’s architectural vision gave outward form to Otis’s ambitions, and Otis’s projects gave Bulfinch a canvas on which he could express his artistic talents. Yet Bulfinch and Otis were not close. Otis was a prolific correspondent, but there are almost no letters extant between the two men. -
Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Volume 9
Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 9 AMERICAN THEATRE: Jun. 1, 1777–Jul. 31, 1777 EUROPEAN THEATRE: Jun. 1, 1777–Sept. 30, 1777 AMERICAN THEATRE: Aug. 1, 1777– Sept. 30, 1777 United States Government Printing Office Washington, 1986 Electronically published by American Naval Records Society Bolton Landing, New York 2012 AS A WORK OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS PUBLICATION IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. APPENDICES APPENDIX A [The series of sketches which comprise this appendix are by Captain Hector McNeill commanding officer of the Continental Navy frigate Boston. On July 7, 1777, Boston in company with the frigate Hancock, Captain John Manley, and a captured Royal Navy frigate, Fox, fell in with a British squadron under Captain Sir George Collier. McNeill's drawings depict ship positions at various times during the running action which ensued. Manlcy surrendered the Hancock, the Fox was retaken while the Boston ran to safety on the Maine coast. This volume contains American and British accounts of the action.] 1. MassHS. These sketches are also published in Philip Chadwick Foster Smith's book Fired by Manley zeal; A Naval Fiasco of the American Revolution (Salem, Mass., 1977). Victor Rainbow Boston sloop Hancock Flora Fox Victor Rainbow Boston sloop Flora Hancock Fox Victor Rainbow sloop Boston Hancock Fox Flora sloop Rainbow Flora Bozton Hancock Fox Rainbow Boston Hancoch Flora Fox Rainbow Boston Hancock Flora Fox Boston Hancock Rainbow Fox Flora Boston Fox Rainbow Flora Hancock Boston Fox Flora Hancock Rainbow APPENDIX I3 [This detailed and highly informative document was prepared by the Conti- nental Marine Committee and may have been carried as a "shopping list" by Benjamin Franklin when he sailed for France on board the Continental Navy brig Reprisal in the fall of 1776. -
'Charmed with the French:' Reassessing the Early Career Of
Thomas Conroy, “’Charmed with the French:’ Reassessing the Early Career of Charles Bulfinch, Architect” Historical Journal of Massachusetts Volume 34, No. 2 (Summer 2006). Published by: Institute for Massachusetts Studies and Westfield State University You may use content in this archive for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the Historical Journal of Massachusetts regarding any further use of this work: [email protected] Funding for digitization of issues was provided through a generous grant from MassHumanities. Some digitized versions of the articles have been reformatted from their original, published appearance. When citing, please give the original print source (volume/ number/ date) but add "retrieved from HJM's online archive at http://www.westfield.ma.edu/mhj. “Charmed with the French”: Reassessing the Early Career of Charles Bulfinch, Architect By Thomas E. Conroy Charles Bulfinch casts a long shadow on Boston, his hometown and the major seat of American Federalist architecture. In the last half- century, he received enough scholarly attention to put him on par with other important Bostonians born in the colonial period. Nearly as many full-length biographies have been written about Boston’s first famous architect as have been written about the town’s most notable founders, influential colonial divines, and important American Revolutionaries. Similarly, Bulfinch’s career has been explored more often than those of other early American architects working in and around Boston. Compelled primarily by his architectural work, and secondarily by his long political service on the Boston Board of Selectmen, scholars have extensively explored his dual career from the mid-1790s to his removal to Washington, DC in 1817 when he was called on by President Monroe to be the Architect of the Capitol.1 Almost universally, these studies portray Bulfinch as the man who single-handedly transformed the face of post-revolutionary Boston by turning the colonial town into a model of modern English architecture. -
Sargent=Murray=Gilman=Hough House Association
Crfc SZ. 19MI Sargent=Murray=Gilman=Hough House Association 1941 Gloucester CAPE ANN TICKET AND LABEL COMPANY GLOUCESTER. MASSACHUSETTS 19 4 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Foreword 1 Reccrd of Title 6 Agreement of Association 7 Charter 9 Amendment to Charter 11 By-Laws of Sargent-Murray-Gilman-Hough House Ass'n .... 12 Amendments to By-Laws 15 Organization 17 Membership 18 Report of Treasurer for fiscal year ending August 31, 1940 23 Collections Entrance Hall, First Floor and Main Staircase 25 Sargent Room, First Floor 27 Small Sargent Room on First Floor 37 Office of the Secretary 43 Main Dining-Room 45 Side Hall on First Floor 46 Side Hall on Second Floor 46 Side Hall on Third Floor 46 Gilman Room, Second Floor 46 Plumer-Burnham Room, Second Floor 48 Library, or John Sargent Room 50 Universalist-Hough Room, Second Floor 53 Parsons Room, Second Floor 58 Large Room, Third Floor 60 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Judith Sargent House Frontispiece Main Staircase 26 Palladian Window on Main Staircase 28 Sargent Room, First Floor 30 Universalist-Hough Room, Second Floor 54 The Illustrations are from photographs taken by Samuel Chamberlain, Esq., of Marblehead and made available by his courtesy. THE JUDITH SARGENT HOUSE FOREWORD The Board of Managers, at a meeting in 1940, decided that there were several reasons for gathering into accessible form the records of the organization and of the acquisitions of the Judith Sargent House, together with an occasional illustration of the House itself. The Board felt that, as a modest booklet, such a record might be acceptable and useful to the Convention of the Universalist Church to be held in Gloucester in 1941. -
Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1772-1789 Content List (HIL-MICL FC LPR .A4P8C6M5C6)
Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1772-1789 Content List (HIL-MICL FC LPR .A4P8C6M5C6) Vol. 139 (Reels 2-3): Revolutionary Miscellaneous, 1786-89 Papers Obtained from the Treasury Department and Arranged in 1844 on a variety of subjects: Pg. # Content Date Penobscot Expedition: Orders for pay for service on the Brig Pallas (1779), Capt. James Johnson commander (Data in documents pertaining to crew may be included: role on ship, place of residence, and family member when crew member deceased.) 1 John Silloway’s Order Nov. 24, 1786 2 William Pidgin’s Order Jan. 22, 1787 3 John Nickol’s Order June 4, 1787 3A Cary McLellan’s Order, originally for Joseph Parker, deceased July 3, 1788 4 John Cushing’s Order July 3, 1787 4A James Dyer’s Order, originally for son James Dyer Jr., deceased July 6, 1787 5 Abigail Stanford’s Order, originally for husband Thomas, July 7, 1787 deceased 5A Hannah Langley’s Order, originally for her late husband Richard, July 7, 1787 deceased 6 John Woodbury’s Order for his apprentice John Blake July 7, 1787 6A Isaac Dyer’s Order for his late son Edward Dyer, deceased July 10, 1787 7 Michael Smith’s Order July 10, 1787 8 John Webster’s Order on behalf of Thomas Webster, deceased July 10, 1787 8A John Mars’ Order July 11, 1787 9 David Strout’s Order on behalf of his late son David, deceased July 28, 1787 9A James Pudington’s Order Aug. 4, 1787 10 Michael Holland’s Order Aug. 30, 1787 10A Enoch Coffin’s Order Nov. -
Boston-Tea-Party.Pdf
55 Tea Launches the Final Crisis The duty on tea—a modest levy of threepence per pound—was the only Townshend duty not repealed in 1770. The American boycott on British tea continued after 1770. Although the boycott was only partially observed in most of the ports, it was strictly maintained in the two major tea-buying ports of New York and Philadelphia, which shifted to buying smuggled tea from Holland and the Dutch West Indies. Here was a happy marriage of principle and economic self-interest, for the price of smuggled tea was considerably lower than that imported from Great Britain. During 1771 and 1772, the Americans imported 580,000 pounds of British tea, of which Boston imported 375,000 pounds and the southern ports most of the remainder. In contrast to this average annual import of dutiable tea of 290,000 pounds, total American consumption per year was estimated at six and a half million pounds. Even reducing the sum to half, British tea was not in these years able to capture over eight percent of the vast American tea market. The British tea price could have been far more competitive with Dutch tea, even with the three-penny burden, because the Townshend Act had removed the shilling tax on imports of tea into England for all tea reexported to America. In 1769, however, the East India Company, to which Britain had granted a monopoly on the import of tea (the tea was imported from China), followed the typical path of monopoly and raised the upset price it charged at auction from about two shillings threepence a pound to three shillings. -
Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice Report
Slavery and Justice report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice Contents Introduction 3 University Steering Committee Slavery, the Slave Trade, on Slavery and Justice and Brown University 7 Brenda A. Allen Evelyn Hu-DeHart Confronting Historical Injustice: Associate Provost and Professor of History; Director of Institutional Director, Center for the Comparative Perspectives 32 Diversity Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Confronting Slavery’s Legacy: Paul Armstrong The Reparations Question 58 Professor of English Vanessa Huang ’06 A.B., Ethnic Studies Farid Azfar ’03 A.M. Slavery and Justice: Doctoral Candidate, Arlene R. Keizer Concluding Thoughts 80 Department of History Associate Professor of English and American Omer Bartov Recommendations 83 Civilization John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor Seth Magaziner ’06 Endnotes 88 of European History A.B., History B. Anthony Bogues Marion Orr Image Credits 106 Professor and Chair Fred Lippitt Professor of Africana Studies of Public Policy and Acknowledgments 106 Professor of Political Science James Campbell (Chair) and Urban Studies Associate Professor of American Civilization, Kerry Smith Africana Studies, and Associate Professor of History History and East Asian Studies Ross E. Cheit William Tucker ’04 Associate Professor A.B., Africana Studies of Political Science and and Public Policy Public Policy Michael Vorenberg Steven R. Cornish ’70 A.M. Associate Professor of History Associate Dean of the College Neta C. Crawford ’85 Adjunct Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies Introduction et us begin with a clock. public sites in Providence, including the Esek LIn 2003, Brown University President Ruth J. Hopkins Middle School, Esek Hopkins Park (which Simmons appointed a Steering Committee on includes a statue of him in naval uniform), and Slavery and Justice to investigate and issue a public Admiral Street, where his old house still stands.