DOCSLIB.ORG

Town of Hamilton Annual Report

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Town of Hamilton Annual Report ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE TOWN of HAMILTON MASSACHUSETTS 1956 ANNUAL REPORT for the TOWN of HAMILTON MASSACHUSETTS 1956 TOWN OF HAMILTON ESSEX COUNTY COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Incorporated June 21, 1793 Area 14.99 sq. miles Sixth Congressional District Fifth Councillor District Third Essex Senatorial District Fifteenth Essex Representative District 1957 OFFICIALS Congressman—William H. Bates of Salem Councillor—Augustus G. Means of Essex Senator—Philip A. Graham of Hamilton Cornelius J. Murray of Beverly Representatives (2) \ ( Clarence S. Wilkinson of Beverly C. F. Nelson Pratt of Saugus County Commissioners (3) Arthur A. Thompson of Methuen John R. Ahern of Lawrence Population 1920 1631 (Federal Census 1925 2018 (State 1930 2044 (Federal 1935 2235 (State 1940 2037 (Federal " 1945 2387 (State " 1950 2764 (Federal " 1955 4116 (State " 1956 TOWN OFFICERS Elected and Appointed Selectmen LAWRENCE LAMSON, Chairman LAWRENCE R. STONE EVERETT F. HALEY Board of Public Welfare LAWRENCE R. STONE, Chairman LAWRENCE LAMSON EVERETT F. HALEY Welfare Agent BERNARD A. CULLEN Board of Health EVERETT F. HALEY, Chairman LAWRENCE LAMSON LAWRENCE R. STONE Moderator JOHN H. PERKINS Town Clerk—Town Accountant FRANCIS H. WHIPPLE Treasurer WALFRED B. SELLMAN Tax Collector BERTHA L. CROWELL Assessors ROBERT H. CHITTICK, Chairman Term expires 1959 ELMO 0. ADAMS ARTHUR L. BENNETT Term expires 1958 Term expires 1957 Planning Board GEORGE C. CUTLER, JR., Chairman Term expires 1960 PAUL F. PERKINS, JR. M. KEITH LANDER Term expires 1961 Term expires 1958 FRANCIS C. MOYNIHAN HENRY J. GOURDEAU Term expires 1957 Term expires 1959 4 Finance and Advisory Committee JOHN C. GARLAND, Chairman CLARK S. SEARS LAWRENCE E. PELKEY CHARLES E. GRANT THOMAS G. STEVENSON Town Counsel STANDISH BRADFORD Registrars of Voters FRANK W. BUZZELL, Chairman Term expires 1958 JESSIE W. B. CUNNINGHAM GEORGE MORROW Term expires 1959 Term expires 1957 FRANCIS H. WHIPPLE, Clerk-Officio Chief of Police EDWARD FREDERICK Fire Engineers A. MERRILL CUMMINGS, Chief RAYMOND A. WHIPPLE RUDOLPH H. HARADEN Moth Superintendent RUDOLPH H. HARADEN Tree Warden RUDOLPH H. HARADEN Forest Warden A. MERRILL CUMMINGS Building Inspector FRANK W. BUZZELL Inspector of Wires THOMAS M. ROBINSON Inspector of Animals and Slaughtering ERNEST M. BARKER Inspector of Milk ERNEST M. BARKER Sanitary Inspector PHILIP S. PLUMMER 5 Sealer of Weights and Measures ERVING 0. MAXWELL Dog Officer HUGH E. MacDONALD Civil Defense Director MELVIN F. REID, Resigned HARVEY E. BARNES Dental Clinic DR. JOHN KING, Dentist MISS FLORENCE L. STOBBART, Nurse Surveyor of Highways CHARLES F. POOLE Veterans' Agent LAWRENCE LAMSON Veterans' Service Director BERNARD A. CULLEN School Committee ALLAN MacCURRACH, Chairman Term expires 1958 GRACE B. LAMSON FREDERICK J. CALDWELL Term expires 1957 Term expires 1959 Superintendent of Schools DOUGLAS A. CHANDLER Trustees of Public Library JOHN F. NEARY, Chairman Term expires 1958 SARAH H. TRUSSELL MELVIN F. REID, Resigned Term expires 1959 JANICE P. PULSIFER Term expires 1957 Librarians LOUISE C. BROWN CYNTHIA B. WIGGIN Main Library Branch Library 6 Park Commissioners ALBERT P. LOUGEE, Chairman Term expires 1957 RAY M. SANFORD PHILIP C. HOPKINS Term expires 1959 Term expires 1958 Park Superintendent HENRY J. STELLINE Water Commissioners GORDON L. THOMPSON, Chairman Term expires 1958 GEORGE A. HARRIGAN RICHARD H. SMITH Term expires 1959 Term expires 1957 Superintendent of Water Works RAYMOND A. WHIPPLE Cemetery Commissioners PAUL S. TUCKER, Chairman Term expires 1959 JOHN T. WALKE RAYMOND A. WHIPPLE, Resigned Term expires 1958 LUTHER M. CAVERLY Term expires 1957 Cemetery Superintendent PHILIP S. PLUMMER Board of Appeals, under Protective {Zoning) By-Law GEORGE G. BECKETT, Chairman Term expires 1957 JOHN F. NEARY ELMER H. SMITH Term expires 1958 Term expires 1959 F. HARLAN CLOCK, Associate Member Board of Appeals, under Building By-Law JEROME F. FLYNN, Chairman CLARK S. SEARS CARL POEHLER, JR. W. WHITNEY LUNDGREN LAWRENCE C. FOSTER Measurers of Wood, Lumber and Bark THEODORE E. JOHNSON FRANK W. BUZZELL ERNEST M. BARKER LEON S. PERKINS 7 Field Drivers CARL C. ANDERSON ERNEST M. BARKER WILLIAM W. BANCROFT HAROLD M. DODGE Fence Viewers JAMES S. MacLAREN HAROLD A. DALEY EDWARD A. UNDERHILL Union Health Department Study Committee HAROLD A. DALEY, Chairman DR. ALBERT R. LARCHEZ SAMUEL J. TYACK PAUL F. PERKINS, JR. School Needs Study Committee ALLAN MacCURRACH, Chairman FREDERICK J. CALDWELL GRACE B. LAMSON DOUGLAS A. CHANDLER JOHN F. NEARY GEORGE C. CUTLER MORLEY L. PIPER HENRY J. GOURDEAU School Building Committee For Plans, Studies and Site For New Elementary School Building Authority of Special Town Meeting, July 16, 1956 FREDERIC WINTHROP, Chairman ALLEN MacCURRACH HENRY J. GOURDEAU FREDERICK J. CALDWELL DONALD L. MILLER GRACE B. LAMSON JOHN F. NEARY ELMER H. SMITH Committee Appointed To Consider the Use or Disposition of The Jonathan Lamson School Building Appointed by Authority of Vote of Special Town Meeting January 4, 1956 LAWRENCE R. STONE ELMER H. SMITH JOHN T. WALKE HENRY J. GOURDEAU JOHN C. GARLAND School Building Committee to Construct Two New Classrooms To Be Added To Manasseh Cutler School Authorized by Special Town Meeting held January 4, 1956 and Annual Town Meeting held March 5, 1956 ALLAN MacCURRACH, Chairman FREDERICK J. CALDWELL GRACE B. LAMSON DOUGLAS A. CHANDLER JOHN F. NEARY GEORGE C. CUTLER MORLEY L. PIPER HENRY J. GOURDEAU 8 Building and Electrical Code Study Committee ARTHUR M. KNIGHT, Chairman CARL POEHLER, JR. JEROME F. FLYNN A. MERRILL CUMMINGS OMER J. POIRIER Committee to Investigate Fire and Police Housing LAWRENCE LAMSON, Chairman EDWARD FREDERICK A. MERRILL CUMMINGS G. GORDON LOVE HENRY J. GOURDEAU REPORT of tke TOWN CLERK 1956 10 REPORT OF TOWN CLERK To the Citizens of Hamilton : I submit herewith my thirteenth annual report as Clerk of our Town of Hamilton. During the year 1956 the elections and town meetings consisted of a Special Town Meeting held January 4th which was an adjournment of the Special Town Meeting called for December 14, 1955 but adjourned to January 4, 1956 due to lack of quorum; the annual Town Meeting and Election which were held March 5th and 13th respectively; the Presiden- tial Primary held April 24; a Special Town Meeting held July 16; the State Primary held September 18th; and the State Election held November 6th. All of the town meetings and elections were held in the High School Auditorium. A detailed report of each is printed in the town report as part of the Town Clerk's report. A list of births, marriages and deaths recorded during the year is also included as a part of the Clerk's report. Each year the returns of several births and marriages are not received until after the list has been compiled and delivered to the printer, resulting in the record not being printed in the town report, although including in the official town records. I express my sincere appreciation to all the townspeople and town officials who have assisted me during the year. Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS H. WHIPPLE Town Cleric 11 REPORT OF THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Held in the High School Auditorium, January 4, 1956 Report of Special Town Meeting called for December 14, 1955, but due to lack of quorum was adjourned to January 4, 1956. A count of the Voters by the Moderator and the Town Clerk showed that more than the necessary 200 to constitute a quorum were present. Meeting called to order at 8 :10 P.M. by Moderator John H. Perkins, and Invocation offered by Rev. Edward J. MacLaughlin. Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to receive and accept the second special report of the School Building Needs Committee relative to its activities and investigations from December 1954 to the present time as an interim report and to continue the committee until the next annual meeting, or take any action thereon or relative thereto. Moved by Lawrence Lamson and duly seconded 4 'that the town receive and accept the Second Special Report of the School Building Needs Committee relative to its activities and investigations from December 1954 to the present time as an interim report and to continue the Committee until the next annual meeting. Voice Vote. Motion unanimously carried. Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to purchase the two-room unit which has been added to the Manasseh Cutler School under an agreement, dated February 11, 1955, between The New England De- velopment Corporation and the Hamilton School Committee, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the foregoing purpose and to determine the manner in which the appropriation is to be raised, whether by taxation or borrowing, by transfer of available funds or otherwise, or to do or act in any manner relevant thereto. Moved by Morley L. Piper and duly seconded "that the town pur- chase the two-room unit which has been added to the Manasseh Cutler School under an agreement dated February 11, 1955 between the New England Development Corporation and the Hamilton School Committee for the sum of $45,000 which sum is hereby appropriated, and for the foregoing purpose there be transferred $45,000 from the Excess and Deficiency Fund of the town." Voice Vote. Motion unanimously carried. Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the present School Building Needs Committee to serve as a School Building Com- mittee for the purpose of causing specifications, plans and estimates to be prepared for the construction of two new classrooms to be added to 12 the Manasseh Cutler School, consistent with the over-all educational plan outlined by the School Building Needs Committee in its second special report on file in the office of the Town Clerk, and transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account a sum of money for the same, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The American Founding and the Federal Era (1785-Early-1800S)
    Lesson 4 The American Founding and the Federal Era (1785-early-1800s) Words such as “virtue,” “piety” and “learning” are emphasized in the writings of our Founding Fathers and therefore appear in many of our governmental documents. In fact, when modern political scientists examined seventy-six of the most representative pamphlets and essays written by our Founders, they found the word “virtue” stressed over 300 times.1 Additionally, various synonyms meaning the same thing (such as “religion,” “morality,” and “knowledge”) also frequently appear in official writings (such as in the famous Northwest Ordinance, by which territories become states).2 Significantly, to our Founders, “religion” meant Christianity; “morality” or “virtue” meant Biblical character; and “knowledge” meant information or skills acquired within the framework of a Biblical worldview. The Founders consistently emphasized the elements of religion and morality (or piety and virtue) as the indispensable foundation and supports of our American system of government. They believed that if these pillars were lost, then our nation would eventually collapse. Notice some of their representative declarations affirming this: [I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. 3 [R]eligion and virtue are the only foundations...of republicanism and of all free governments. 4 Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious 5 people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. JOHN ADAMS , SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION [R]eligion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness. 6 While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.
    [Show full text]
  • Bibliotheca Sacra
    Tlte American Republic. 135 ART I C LEV Ill. THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC AND THE DEBS INSURRECTION. BY MR. Z. SWIFT HOLBROOK. THE American Republic is the fruitage of a religious inspiration. Our democratic institutions, ollr notions of lib­ erty and equality, had their origin with men who practised every form of self-denial, that they might be free from hie­ rarchical authority and worship God according to the dic­ tates of conscience. They were not men, like the colony that landed at Jamestown in 1607, moved by the spirit of adventure or by the desire to acquire,-both worthy and useful passions when subordinated to higher ends,-but they came to an unknown land, braving the perils of the sea and enduring the privations incident to such a perilous journey, that they might have freedom to worship God. To what extent these men had caught the inspiration of Luther and had given it a new interpretation, need not here be traced; but the age was one of discovery, of hero­ ism, of adventure, of awakened intellect,-giving the world the revival of faith, hope, and learning. It was the Eliza­ bethan Age in literature. It was the period of the centuries when, freed from the bonds of ecclesiastical authority, indi­ vidualism burst the barriers which had restrained it, and men took on new conceptions of liberty and of individual worth. Man as an individual, a unit, free and independent in his re­ lations to the unseen, and bound by social compacts only because thus his individualism found higher freedom and fuller .development,-this was the conception that inspired [Jan.
    [Show full text]
  • Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) Inventory Listing the Numerous BEP Historical Postage Stamp Production Folders, 2016
    Description of document: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) inventory listing the numerous BEP historical postage stamp production folders, 2016 Requested date: 19-January-2016 Released date: 01-February-2016 Posted date: 28-March-2016 Source of document: Disclosure Officer Bureau of Engraving and Printing Office of the Chief Counsel - FOIA and Transparency Services 14th & C Streets, SW, Room 419A Washington, D.C. 20228-0001 Fax: (202) 874-2951 The governmentattic.org web site (“the site”) is noncommercial and free to the public. The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference only. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals have made every effort to make this information as complete and as accurate as possible, however, there may be mistakes and omissions, both typographical and in content. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the information provided on the governmentattic.org web site or in this file. The public records published on the site were obtained from government agencies using proper legal channels. Each document is identified as to the source. Any concerns about the contents of the site should be directed to the agency originating the document in question. GovernmentAttic.org is not responsible for the contents of documents published on the website. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING WESTERN CURRENCY FACILITY FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76131 February 1, 2016 FOIA/PA Request No.
    [Show full text]
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Volume 3, 1803-1818
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GUIDE TO SERIES I-B-1: GENERAL RECORDS. LETTERBOOKS. BOUND LETTERBOOKS. VOLUME 3, 1803-1818 Archives American Academy of Arts and Sciences 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 © 2011 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Updated: 15 April 2016 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ARCHIVES Series I-B-1: General records. Letterbooks. Bound letterbooks. Volume 3, 1803-1818 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Historical Note The Academy has received letters, announcements, and other forms of correspondence since the founding in 1780. All such correspondence was the responsibility of the Corresponding Secretary, one of the original officers of the Academy. Beginning sometime in the late 1800s, incoming letters were pasted into bound scrapbooks, which the Academy referred to as “letterbooks.” This practice continued until 1988, when staff began saving correspondence in folders. For the time period covered by Volume 3, the Presidents of the Academy were John Adams (1791-1814) and Edward Augustus Holyoke (1814-1820). The Corresponding Secretaries were John Quincy Adams (1802-1809) and Josiah Quincy (1809-1823). Scope and Content The series of letterbooks in its entirety includes letters from newly-elected Fellows, formally accepting their elections; communications with other learned societies (especially, invitations to attend meetings or send representatives to official events, and offers to exchange publications); correspondence concerning gifts of books, maps, and natural history specimens; and inquiries from members and non- members regarding the submission and publication of articles. Volume 3 contains letters and other documents received by the American Academy from 1803 to 1818. Most of this incoming correspondence pertains to the election of members and other administrative duties.
    [Show full text]
  • Will Be by Ann Fidler, “Finding Manasseh Cutler”
    FYI Emeriti - Notes for January 2020 Lunch reservations for January 16, 2020 Reservations must be received before noon on Friday, January 10 but don't wait. Contact Tom Franz < [email protected] > The price of the luncheon will be $17. An “always attending” list is also available with payment of $85 for January to May (no refunds). Checks made payable to the OU Emeriti Association will avoid the problem of having to bring exact change payment for the luncheon. The menu for the January Luncheon is Fresh Garden Salad Cucumber and Tomato Salad with Balsamic Drizzle Salisbury steak with onion gravy Tomato Braised chicken Oven Roasted Vegetables Buttermilk whipped potatoes Assorted Cookies & Brownies Vice President Scott Moody reports that the Emeriti Association program for January 16, 2020 will be by Ann Fidler, “Finding Manasseh Cutler” From: https://www.ohio.edu/library/about/news-events/celebrating-50-years-alden-library-ohio-s- founding-father-manasseh-cutler . Abstract: An ordained minister, Yale graduate, and father of eight children, Manasseh Cutler (1742- 1823) was instrumental in the formation of the Ohio Company of Associates, whose purpose was not only the purchase of land in the old Northwest Territory, but the acquisition of a land grant from Congress to establish a university. Although surveyed in 1799, it was not until 1804 that Ohio University was established. Fidler became intrigued with Cutler’s personality, accomplishments and his association with OHIO after encountering a copy of the “Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler” while working in her Cutler Hall office several years ago. “One of my jobs in the provost’s office was to do speech writing, and as a historian working at a University that had an intriguing history, I was always trying to incorporate historical events, ideas and people into my speeches,” Fidler explains.
    [Show full text]
  • OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Volume 4, Number 3, Fall 2004
    1 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Volume 4, Number 3, Fall 2004 A Journal of the History and Culture of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South, published in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky, by Cincinnati Museum Center and The Filson Historical Society, Inc. Contents The Art of Survival: Moravian Indians and Economic Adaptation in the Old Northwest, 1767-1808 Maia Conrad 3 “Fairly launched on my voyage of discovery”: Meriwether Lewis’s Expedition Letters to James Findlay Edited by James J. Holmberg 19 Space and Place on the Early American Frontier: The Ohio Valley as a Region, 1790-1850 Kim M. Gruenwald 31 Henry Bellows Interviews Hiram Powers Edited by Kelly F. Wright 49 Cincinnati in 1800. Lithograph by Reviews 79 Strobridge Lithograph Co. from painting by Announcements 92 A.]. Swing. Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati Historical Society Library FALL 2004 3 Contributors MAIACONRAD is an independent scholar. She received her Ph.D. in History from The College of William and Mary. JAMESJ. HOLMBERGis Curator of Special Collections at The Filson Historical Society. He is the author of Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002). KIM M. GRUENWALDis Associate Professor of History at Kent State University. She is the author of River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002). KELLYF. WRIGHTis a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Cincinnati. 2 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Space and Place on the Earlv American Frontier: The Ohid Valley as a Region, 1790-1850 KIM M.
    [Show full text]
  • Mr. Jefferson's Sickle: Thomas Worthington and The
    Mr. Jefferson’s Sickle: Thomas Worthington and the Implementation of the Agrarian Republic Research Thesis Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation with research distinction in History in the undergraduate colleges of The Ohio State University By Joseph T. Ross The Ohio State University March 2015 Project Advisor: Professor John L. Brooke, Department of History Committee Member: Professor Lucy M. Murphy, Department of History Committee Member: Professor Andrew R. L. Cayton, Miami University Ross 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………………..3 Abbreviations……………………………………………………………………………………...4 The Jeffersonian Commonwealth: An Introduction………………………………………………6 Chapter 1: “Fair Objects of Speculation:” Land Companies and Oligarchy…………………….18 Chapter 2: “A Very Great Quantity of Land Has Been Sold:” Harringtonian Land Reform……44 Chapter 3: “A Government of Our Own Choice:” Democratization and Deliberation………….74 Epilogue: “An Incapacity to Bear Up Any Other Than Free Men”…………………………….101 Ross 3 Acknowledgements There are a lot of people who I am grateful towards for helping me to conduct this project. First I would like to thank Nathaniel Swigger for his help in securing two Ohio State Newark Student Research Grants, which I utilized to conduct and present this research. I was also the recipient of one of Ohio State’s 2014 Undergraduate Research Office Summer Research Fellowships, which provided the means for much of the research. During my trips both in and out of state I met many wonderful people
    [Show full text]
  • Federalist Politics and the Unitarian Controversy Marc M
    Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History Faculty Scholarship Winter 2002 The orF ce of Ancient Manners: Federalist Politics and the Unitarian Controversy Marc M. Arkin Fordham University School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Law and Philosophy Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Society Commons, and the Legal History Commons Recommended Citation Marc M. Arkin, The Force of Ancient Manners: Federalist Politics and the Unitarian Controversy, 22 J. of the Early Republic 575 (2002) Available at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/716 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE FORCE OF ANCIENT MANNERS: FEDERALIST POLITICS AND THE UNITARIAN CONTROVERSY REVISITED Marc M. Arkin Some of our mutual friends say all is lost-nothing can be done. Nothing is to be done rashly, but mature counsels and united efforts are necessary in the most forlorn case. For though we may not do much to save ourselves, the vicissitudes of political fortune may do every thing-and we ought to be ready when she smiles.1 As 1804 drew to a close, Massachusetts Federalists could be forgiven for thinking that it had been a very bad year, the latest among many.
    [Show full text]
  • Men of Progress, 1898
    Menf o Progress Biographical S ketches and Portraits OF Leaders i n Business and Professional Life INND A OF THE COMPILED U NDER THE SUPERVISION OF RICHARD H ERNDON EDITEDY B RICHARD B URTON BOSTON NEW E NGLAND MAGAZINE 1898 M5"3 Copvright, 1 897 uv RICHARD H ERNDON 7TKTrcq H lSTORICAC-1 • C. ALFRED M UDOE * SON, PRINTERS, BOSTON. MENF O PROGRESS. ALLEN, I saac Almarin, Jr., Architect, Hartford, a d escendant of Captain Ephraim Pease, who was born in Enfield street, Enfield, Connecticut, entertained General Washington at his house in May 22, 1859, son of Isaac Almarin and Harriet Enfield. His father's mother Mary (Pease) Allen Jane (Carrier) Allen. He is an only son; of his was also a descendant of Captain Ephraim Pease. four sisters, but one is now living — Elizabeth A letter from General Washington referring to the Ingraham (Allen) Burns, wife of Louis Burns of hospitality of Captain Pease, is still preserved by Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The other three sisters died while young. His father is a well-to-do farmer of Enfield, and his grandfather, Chauncey Allen, was an extensive farmer and dealer in leaf tobacco, who died at the age of eighty-nine, leaving a large property. Isaac Allen, brother of Chaun cey, moved from Enfield to Clarkson, Monroe county, New York, and became an extensive farmer there. At the age of eighteen he was a Colonel in the War of 1812. The genealogy of the family is traced back many generations in the Allen gene alogy, which has been published. On his mother's side he is descended from John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration of Independence.
    [Show full text]
  • Down but Not Out: How American Slavery Survived the Constitutional Era
    Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University History Theses Department of History 12-16-2015 Down But Not Out: How American Slavery Survived the Constitutional Era Jason Butler Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses Recommended Citation Butler, Jason, "Down But Not Out: How American Slavery Survived the Constitutional Era." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2015. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/99 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of History at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. DOWN BUT NOT OUT: HOW AMERICAN SLAVERY SURVIVED THE CONSTITUTIONAL ERA by JASON E. BUTLER Under the Direction of H. Robert Baker, Ph.D. ABSTRACT Whether through legal assault, private manumissions or slave revolt, the institution of slavery weathered sustained and substantial blows throughout the era spanning the American Revolution and Constitutional Era. The tumult of the rebellion against the British, the inspiration of Enlightenment ideals and the evolution of the American economy combined to weaken slavery as the delegates converged on Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Even in the South, it was not hard to find prominent individuals working, speaking or writing against slavery. During the Convention, however, Northern delegates capitulated to staunch Southern advocates of slavery not because of philosophical misgivings but because of economic considerations. Delegates from North and South looked with anticipation toward the nation’s expansion into the Southwest, confident it would occasion a slavery-based economic boom.
    [Show full text]
  • Washington City, 1800-1830 Cynthia Diane Earman Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
    Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School Fall 11-12-1992 Boardinghouses, Parties and the Creation of a Political Society: Washington City, 1800-1830 Cynthia Diane Earman Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Earman, Cynthia Diane, "Boardinghouses, Parties and the Creation of a Political Society: Washington City, 1800-1830" (1992). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 8222. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/8222 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BOARDINGHOUSES, PARTIES AND THE CREATION OF A POLITICAL SOCIETY: WASHINGTON CITY, 1800-1830 A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in The Department of History by Cynthia Diane Earman A.B., Goucher College, 1989 December 1992 MANUSCRIPT THESES Unpublished theses submitted for the Master's and Doctor's Degrees and deposited in the Louisiana State University Libraries are available for inspection. Use of any thesis is limited by the rights of the author. Bibliographical references may be noted, but passages may not be copied unless the author has given permission. Credit must be given in subsequent written or published work. A library which borrows this thesis for use by its clientele is expected to make sure that the borrower is aware of the above restrictions.
    [Show full text]
  • Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment David Barton
    Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy Volume 17 Article 3 Issue 2 Symposium on Religion in the Public Square 1-1-2012 The mI age and the Reality: Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment David Barton Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndjlepp Recommended Citation David Barton, The Image and the Reality: Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment, 17 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 399 (2003). Available at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndjlepp/vol17/iss2/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy at NDLScholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy by an authorized administrator of NDLScholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE IMAGE AND THE REALITY: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT DAVID BARTON* Thomas Jefferson had a significant impact on America, American government, and American culture, and his influence continues today. His words help shape policies on everything from the scope and limits of the federal government to the growth and development of scientific inquiry. His most recogniz- able current role is as a singular authority on religion in the pub- lic square. JEFFERSON AND THE SUPREME COURT In 1947 in Everson v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court acknowledged Thomas Jefferson as an authority on the First Amendment's religion clauses: This Court has previously recognized that the provisions of the First Amendment, in the drafting and adoption of which .
    [Show full text]