GREAT BRITAIN - ENGLAND: 17th & 18th Century Foreign Newspapers - Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress) 36. The Bath Herald; and General Advertiser. (Weekly: Saturday) Mar. 3, 1792 - ? LC file contains: Bound Volume: Control No.: 1722A 1792. 37. Bound Volumes: [Julian Calendar] Control No.: 17 1745. Control No.: 1724 1749. Portfolio Items: Box 39, Folder 15 1756. 39. Portfolio Item: Box 33, Folder 12 1777. 40. Portfolio Item: Box 33, Folder 13 1771. 41. Portfolio Item: Box 33, Folder 14 1753. Portfolio Item: Box 33, Folder 15 1786. 43. Portfolio Item: Box 41B, Folder 28 1777. 44. Sheffield Weekly Advertiser. Portfolio Item: Box 33, Folder 16 1755. 45. Control No.: 1725* 1792. GLOUCESTER 46. Portfolio Items: Box 41C, Folder 36 [Julian Calendar] 1742. [Gregorian Calendar] 1758. 47. Portfolio Items: Box 33, Folder 17 1756. 48. Portfolio Item: Box 33, Folder 18 1793. 49. Portfolio Items: Box 33, Folder 19 [Julian Calendar] 1721. 50. Portfolio Items: Box 33, Folder 20 1791. 51. Control No.: 1726 1692. Control No.: 1727 1694. 52. 53. Control No.: 1727A 1798. 54. 55. 56.
INTRODUCTION: 17th & 18th Century Foreign Newspapers - Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress) The foreign newspaper collection in original copy, as well as some photostats and facsimiles, for the 17th and 18th centuries at the Library of Congress is in the custody of the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room, LM-133. The current holdings consist of 663 bound volumes and 1,362 individual issues placed in portfolio folders. This checklist will provide new access for scholars. Many of the collation notes made on the endsheets of bound volumes indicate no inventory has been attempted since the 1920's. Use of this very special collection is restricted to those patrons who have a legitimate scholarly need to examine these newspapers in original form. There are two unique features of this collection that all researchers should bear in mind: calendars and mutilations. I. These two centuries, the eighteenth in particular, are notorious for disparities in national calendars. W.W. The Julian calendar was in use in Russia for the entire eighteenth century. II.
Calendar Reform in England, 1752 It is widely known that in September 1752, Great Britain switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. In order to achieve the change, 11 days were 'omitted' from the calendar - i.e. the day after 2 September 1752 was 14 September 1752. This change was as a result of an Act of Parliament - the "Calendar Act" of 1751 An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use. What isn't so widely known is a second change which the Act introduced - as named in the first part of the Act's title. Prior to 1752 in England, the year began on 25 March (Lady Day). So, in England, the day after 24 March 1642 was 25 March 1643. Historians have to be on their toes with dates prior to 1752. Some unanswered questions There is considerable evidence of contemporary dual dating. But remember that 29 February was in the last quarter of the year by the old reckoning. The Tax Year Lady Day was one of the days when rents were traditionally due.
William Van Slyke Three Rivers Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie History From America's Most Famous Valleys Excerpted from the PENSION APPLICATION OF WILLIAM VAN SLYKE, NO. W2461, are his remembrances of the BATTLE OF ORISKANY which was fought on AUGUST 6,1777, BATTLES OF STONE ARABIA AND KLOCKSFIELD which were fought on OCTOBER 19, 1780, THE BATTLE OF NEW DORLACH [SHARON SPRINGS] which was fought on JULY 10, 1781 and THE BATTLE OF JOHNSTOWN which was fought on OCTOBER 25, 1781. This Declarant returned home with the Company then under the Command of Lieutenant John Zeily(11) and arrived the second day afterwards and was discharged having been absent on duty and served not less than six days." 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. The day after the battle at Fox's Mills was returned back but not to our homes they were burned and destroyed and our cattle horses and personal property nearly all lost -" 1. However, his name does appear on the muster roll of Captain John Zeely in Colonel Klock's Regiment. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
American Revolution: Historical Documents: Digital Collections The New York State Library holds an extensive collection of material on the American Revolutionary War in print, microform, and online formats. This material consists of troop rosters and other details extracted from muster and pay rolls, Loyalist records, colonial New York State history documents, military bounty land records, diaries, orderly books, personal papers of participants and broadsides. The New York State Library is also a depository for several record series compiled by New York State Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, including grave locations of Revolutionary soldiers and their immediate family members buried in New York State. Listed below are publications that have been digitized from items/volumes in the New York State Library’s collection. As the State Library digitizes other Revolutionary War materials, links to the digital copy will be added to this list. The titles listed below are also available in print copy at the NYSL for use onsite. Dr.
Kitchen Cabinet The Kitchen Cabinet was a term used by political opponents of President of the United States Andrew Jackson to describe the collection of unofficial advisers he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet (the "parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton affair and his break with Vice President John C. Calhoun in 1831.[1][2] Blair was Kendall's successor as editor of the Jacksonian Argus of Western America, the prominent pro-New Court newspaper of Kentucky. Jackson brought Blair to Washington, D.C. to counter Calhounite Duff Green, editor of The United States Telegraph, with a new paper, the Globe. Lewis had been quartermaster under Jackson during the War of 1812; Andrew Donelson was Jackson's adoptive son and private secretary; and Overton was Andrew Jackson's friend and business partner since the 1790s.[3][5] Coinage[edit] Popular use[edit] Ronald Reagan had a kitchen cabinet of allies and friends from California who advised him during his terms.
Andrew Hamilton (lawyer) Andrew Hamilton (c. 1676 – August 4, 1741) was a Scottish lawyer in the Thirteen Colonies, where he finally settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was best known for his legal victory on behalf of the printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger. This 1735 decision in New York helped to establish that truth is a defense to an accusation of libel. His success in this case has been said to have inspired the term, "Philadelphia lawyer," meaning a particularly adept and clever attorney, as in "It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to get him off Hamilton did not talk about his parentage, career, and name in the Old World. Two years after his marriage, on March 26, 1708, Hamilton purchased from John Toads a 600-acre estate in Maryland known as “Henberry.” It was not until 1712, at age 36, that Hamilton had established himself in Chestertown, Maryland with a reputable and lucrative law practice. At some point during 1715, Hamilton moved to Philadelphia. Bush Hill.
Benjamin Chew Benjamin Chew (November 19, 1722 – January 20, 1810) was a fifth-generation American, a Quaker-born legal scholar, a prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer, head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System under both Colony and Commonwealth, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania. Chew was well known for his precision and brevity in making legal arguments as well as his excellent memory, judgment, and knowledge of statutory law. His primary allegiance was to the supremacy of law and constitution. He had a lifelong personal friendship with George Washington,[1] who is said to have treated Chew’s children “as if they were his own Early life and education[edit] Chew coat of arms Although Chew was raised in a Quaker family, he had first broken with Quaker tradition in 1741, when he agreed with his father, who had instructed a grand jury in Newcastle on the lawfulness of resistance to an armed force. Chew moved to Philadelphia in 1754. Marriage and family[edit]