THE ANNIVERSARY REGISTER:

OR,

MONTHLY CALENDAR OF AMERICAN CHRONOLOGY.

EXHIBITING

CORRECT DATES

OF

THE BIRTHS AND DEATHS OF EMINENT MEN,

LAND AND SEA FIGHTS, TREATIES, EXTRAORDINARY AND MEMORABLE EVENTS, AND OTHER MATTERS, CONNECTED WITH THE

HISTORY OF AMERICA.

NOVEMBER.

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Earthquake in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Born, at Albany, N. Y. Stephen Van Rennselaer, the patroon of Albany.

The British Stamp Act went into operation in America, to the great dissatisfaction of the inhabitants, who expressed their displeasure by tolling bells, etc.

Advanced Guard of the American army under General Brown, repulsed an attack by a British
force.

British ship of war Bacchaute captured American privateer Macdonough.
Died, at Boston, aged 75, Jonathan Mason, formerly U. S. Senator.

U. S. Literary Convention assembled at New York, and formed themselves into an Institu-
tion called The National Society of Science, Literature, and the Arts.

Died, in Fayette County, Kentucky, aged 103, John Howard, a revolutionary soldier-he re-
ceived 5 wounds at the Battle of Guilford.

Committees of Correspondence (the origin of Congress) appointed in Boston by "The Sons of
Liberty."

General Washington issued his farewell orders to the American army.

All Acts of Congress respecting neutrals rescinded by President Madison, on the presumption that Bonaparte intended to revoke the Berlin and Milan decrees.

The British again repulsed by the Americans under General Brown, at French Creek, Pa. Americans under General Coffee defeated the Creeks at Talluschatches, killing 200 warriors, and taking 86 prisoners.

Died, aged 78, Major General Thomas Pinckney, a distinguished revolutionary officer, Governor of South Carolina, M. C., and Minister to London.

1832 Four Bishops of the Episcopal Church consecrated at New York-viz. Vermont, New Jersey, Ohio, and Kentucky.

An order issued by the government of the U. S. prohibiting the use of ardent spirits in the armies of the U. S.

Died, at Belfast, Maine, aged 62, Abiel Wood, of Wiscasset, formerly M. C.

James I. granted the Plymouth Company a patent for the planting, ordering, and governing
of New England.

Born, Samuel Davis, president of Nassau Hall, and founder of the first Presbytery in New
England.

Louisiana, including New Orleans, ceded to Spain by France.

St. Johns, Canada, surrendered to the Americans under Montgomery, including a quantity of cannon, arms, and naval stores.

The fine and spacious Exchange at Boston destroyed by fire.

Massachusetts General Court agreed to resist the orders of the Long Parliament, and declared its independence.

Mutiny amongst the N. H. troops. Captain Beall killed.

The Congress of the U. S. adjourned to Annapolis, Md. from Princeton, on account of the open disaffection of the army.

Battle of Miami Village. Americans under General St. Clair defeated by the Indians. 38 officers killed, 21 wounded, several mortally. About 835 men killed and wounded.

Americans, under General Izard, having destroyed Fort Erie, retire from U. C.

The militia of Virginia assembled at Fort Gower, declared their independence, and resolved
to support the rights of their countrymen.

Died, at Morrisania, N. Y. aged 64, Governor Morris, celebrated Orator and Statesman.
Died, at New York, aged 82, General Philip Van Courtlandt, a distinguished revolutionary
officer.

Died, at West Point, N. Y., aged 88. Major Roger Alden, a revolutionary officer.
The office of The Vindicator, a revolutionary paper in Montreal, destroyed by violence.
Born, in Norfolk County, Va., Richard Dale, a Commodore in U. S. Navy, and first Lieut. to
Paul Jones in the action with the Serapy.

Died, in Boston, aged 64, James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts.

British order in council issued, condemning all neutral vessels and their cargoes trading with
the French ports.

Died, aged 63, Oliver Ellsworth, a distinguished Statesman, and Chief Justice of the U. S.
The American flotilla, consisting of 300 boats full of troops, under General Wilkinson, can
nonaded by the British from the Canadian shores, without sustaining the slightest injury.
A new form of government, the third, of Pennsylvania, passed into effect.
Lord Dinmore, British governor of Virginia, declared the State in rebellion, proclaimed mar-
tial law, and invited the slaves to join him.
General Washington, in retaliation of the death of Joshua Huddy, an American Captain,
hanged by the British without a trial, resolved to hang an English Captain, and desired
two prisoners to decide by lot which should suffer death. Sir Charles Asgill drew the
fatal chance, and was ordered for execution, but by the intercession of the French
Court, he was released.

Battle of Tippecanoe, on the Wabash, Indiana. The Indians under Tecumseh and the Pro-
phet defeated by the Americans under General Harrison.

A detachment of the British army routed by the Americans under General Macomb, near
Hamilton, on the St. Lawrence.

Americans under General Jackson, entered Pensacola. The British retired to their shipping
having first destroyed the fortifications.

Died, at Northampton, Mass, aged 74, Caleb Strong, L. L D. Senator of U. S., Member of
State Convention, and Governor of Massachusetts for nine years.

The New York and Erie Rail Road commenced.

Riot at Alton, Ill. Abolition Press destroyed. Reverend E. P. Lovejoy and Mr. Bishop shot dead.

Patent issued by the King of France to De Mouts, for the sovereignty of Arcadia, extending from the shores of the Delaware to the parallel of Montreal-with exclusive privileges. Born. at Bladensburg, Md., William Wirt, a celebrated Statesman, Jurist, and Literateur. British attacked Mud Fort. now Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware, which was bravely defended by Colonel S. Smith and Major Simeon Thayer.

British Minister at Washington, F. J. Jackson, debarred from all intercourse with the govern. ment of the U. S. by order of President Madison.

The Creeks defeated by the Americans under General Jackson, at Talladega, Alabama. 29 warriors slain.

American Privateer Schooner General Putnam taken by the British Man of War Leander, off Cape Sable.

Brig Juno, of New York, upset at sea, and 32 persons lost.

Convention of Delegates assembled at Dover, Delaware, to amend the Constitution of the
Slate.

The Pilgrim Fathers first espied the shores of America-off Cape Cod.

Earthquake at Ogdensburg, N. Y.

Died, at Lincoln, Mass., aged 80, Brigadier General Eleazer Brooks, a distinguished revolutionary officer.

Earthquake at Portsmouth, N. H.

British repulsed in an attempt upon Ogdensburg, N. Y.

Died, at Harrisburg, Pa., aged 71, Major General Andrew Porter.

The River Delaware blockaded by British Men of War.

Died, in Goochland County, Va., aged 67, James Pleasants, M. C., Governor of Virginia, U
S. Senator, and Member of the Convention of 1837.

A vessel equipped for American discovery, by Popham, the Chief Justice of England and
Gorges, the Governor of Plymouth, captured by the Spaniards.

Born, in Paris, France, Francis A. Matignon, a celebrated Physician in the U. S.
Died, aged 50, Joseph Hewes, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Born, near Charleston, S. C., Robert Y. Hayne, Statesman.

Tremendous Storm and High Tide at Boston-the Town overflowed.

U. S. Schooner Growler captured on Lake Ontario a British Schooner with valuable cargo
and $12,000 in money aboard. The Growler was convoying a prize Schooner at the
time of capture, and the British vessel taken this day was under convoy of two British
Sloops of War.

Died, at Providence, R. I. Jeremiah Olney, a distinguished revolutionary officer.
Advanced Guard of the American army under General Brown, defeated a strong party of
British troops near the Longue Saut, on the St. Lawrence.

Providence and Stonington Rail Road opened to the public.

The British government issued orders in council retaliatory on the Berlin decree of Napo-
leon. The U. S. strongly opposed the British orders, termed the paper blockade, which
placed violent restrictions on their commerce.

Battle of Chrystler's Field or Williamsburg, U. C., between the British and the Americans.
Both sides claimed the victory.

Nat Turner, a leader of a slave insurrection in Southampton County, Va., executed.
Great tempest and rise of water in Lake Erie-many vessels wrecked, some lives lost, and
much damage done to Buffo and other border cities.

The Americans under General Montgomery, entered Montreal, which the British had pre-
viously evacuated.

American Schooner Defence attacked by two British Ships of War, near Hog Island, S. C.,
being the commencement of open hostilities in South Carolina.

British repulsed in an attack on American General Sumpter, at Broad River, S C.
Sloop Betsey, Captain Kennedy, of Philadelphia, captured off Currituck, N. C. by British
Frigate Lacedemonian, who took out the crew, and left the Captain with a Captain
Holbrook on board, under the charge of a prize master and 5 men. In the night, the
two American Captains rose on the British, retook the Sloop, and carried her safe into
Washington, N. C., with their 6 prisoners on board.

Died, in Lincoln County, N. C., aged 77, General Joseph Graham, a revolutionary officer of
distinction.

Them is Hansford, a native Virginian, hanged by order of Sir William Berkely, for rebellion-
the first American martyr in the cause of republicanism.

Born, in Maryland, John Dickinson, author of the celebrated" Farmers' Letters."
Massachusetts issued the first Letters of marque and reprisal against England.

General Arnold arrived with his wilderness party before Quebec, but was compelled to retire.
John Moody hanged as a Spy, at Philadelphia. He intended to have seized the books and
papers of Congress.

Died, Brigadier General Leonard Covington, of wounds received while leading the American forces at the Battle of Chrystler's Field, on the 11th of this month.

Convention agreed on between U. S. Minister and Court of Great Britain, to indemnify injuries to American commerce during the past war.

Died, at Mount Airy, Va., aged 72, Sir Jennings Beckwick, known as the "Leather Stocking" of the northern neck.

Born, at Cambridge, Mass., William Fessenden, Philanthropist.

Fort Mifflin, (Mud Fort) on the Delaware, evacuated by the Americans, after a gallant de-
fence, wherein 250 of the garrison were killed or wounded.

Died, at Stratford, Coun., aged 93, William Samuel Johnson, L. L. D., a distinguished Jurist,
Senator of U. S., and President of Columbia College.

Died, in New York, aged 63, of apoplexy, Thomas Addis Emmett, a celebrated Lawyer.
Died, near Baltimore, aged 96, Charles Carroll, of Carrolton, one of the Signers of the Decla
ration of Independence, and the longest liver of that band of worthies.
Died, at Talladega, Ala., aged 36, Samuel W. Mardis, M. C. from Alabama.
Born, William Pitt, Lord Chatham, the strenuous advocate of the rights of America, in the
English Senate.

Articles of confederation adopted by the various Colonies, and the name of the United States
first assumed.

Died, at Princeton, N. J., aged 72, John Witherspoon, D. D., L. L. D., and one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Disturbances arising from private quarrel between American and French sailors, at Savannah, S. C. Two French Privateers burnt, and several sailors killed on both sides. Boston Tea Party. Several citizens, disguised as Indians, entered the Ships at the wharves, and destroyed 342 chests of imported tea, upon which a duty of 3d. per pound was intended to be charged.

Fort Washington, on an Island near Kingsbridge, N. Y. surrendered to the British with nearly 3000 prisoners.

Treaty between United States and Choctaws.

The Coast of the U. S. from the Mississippi to Long Island Sound, declared by proclamation of the British Admiral to be in a state of blockade.

Earthquake at Ogdensburg. N. Y.

Steamboat Flora burst her boilers on the Ohio, 30 miles below Cincinnati.

Arms first appealed to in the Canadas insurrection. Several radical leaders arrested, and rescued by their own party.

Riots in Boston, from Commodore Knowles having sanctioned the impressment of several citizens to serve as sailors aboard the King's Ships.

Eleven British vessels laden with stores, captured by the Americans under Colonel Easton. at Sorrel or Chambly River, L Canada.

Ogdensburgh, N. Y. cannonaded by the British gun boats.

Died, at Hartford, Conn, Eli Todd, M D. and Philanthropist.

Died, at Charleston, S C., aged 45, Wm. D. Martin, a distinguished Jurist, and formerly M. C
Very extraordinary Aurora Borealis visible in many parts of U. S.

Cortez sailed from Cuba for Mexico.

Born, at Bladensburg, Md., William Wirt, a distinguished Literateur, and Attorney General of United States.

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Fort Lee, near the Hackinsac, N. J., evacuated by the Americans, who left a quantity of
valuable stores, cannon, and baggage, to the British.

U. S. Congress authorized the establishment of lotteries, to defray the expenses of the war.
Fort Mercer evacuated by the Americans.

Philips Manor, N. Y., burnt by order of Governor Tryon, under circumstances of extra
cruelty.

Died, near Albany, aged 71, Philip Schuyler, a distinguished revolutionary officer.

Creeks defeated by the Americans under General White, at Hillibee; 60 warriors killed, and
256 prisoners taken, without the loss of a single American.

Died, at Bartlett, N. H., aged 74, Ebenezer L. Hall, a revolutionary soldier and distinguished
Jurist.

The most severe shock of an earthquake ever known in New England.

Americans compelled to abandon their position on Red Bank, N. J., and leave their stores in the hands of the British.

Shock of an Earthquake felt at Fredericksburg, Va.

Jay's Treaty signed in London.

Died, aged 60, Philip Doddridge, a distinguished Lawyer and M. C.

Convention of Delegates assembled at Columbia, S. C., and passed opposite ordinances to the Tariff Act of the U. S. Congress.

Columbus and his brother Diego landed at Cadiz from his third voyage of discovery—prisoners and in chains.

Skirmish between Sumpter's troops and Tarleton's legion on the Tyger River, S. C.

Died, at Fayetteville, N. C. Major General Richard Caswell, President of the Senate, and
Governor of the State of N. C.

U. S Schooner Retaliation captured by two French Frigates.

Died, in Saratoga County, N. Y., aged 85, Colonel James Livingston, a celebrated revolutionary officer.

Packet Ship Bristol, from Liverpool to New York, wrecked on Rockaway Beach. More
than 70 lives lost.

The Oneida Bank, at Utica, N Y., robbed of 108,600 dollars.
Born, in Essex County, Mass, Josiah Bartlett, Governor of N. H.

East and West Florida advertised in the London papers, as about to be laid out into town.
ships, and lots offered gratis to actual settlers.

John Horne Tooke, tried in London for high treason, in asserting that the royal troops had
committed murder in firing upon the Americans at Lexington. He was sentenced to
twelve months imprisonment, and fined.

The Berlin decree, wherein Bonaparte declared the British Islands in a state of blockade,
forbidding the whole world communicating with them, even by letter or packet.
Fort Niagara bombarded by the British at Fort George.

The first Maryland Colony, consisting of 200 settlers under Leonard Calvert, sailed from
England.

Born, at Albany, N. Y., Philip Schuyler, a distinguished Patriot.

Cobble, or Miller's Hill, near Boston, possessed and entrenched by 1000 Americans.

Fort St. George, Long Island, captured by Americans under Major Talmadge. Many prisoners taken, and the works, shipping, and stores destroyed.

U. S Brig Vixen captured by British Frigate Sonthampton.

Died, at Portsmouth, N. H, aged 70, Clement Storer, Senator of U. S.

Died, at East Haddam, Conn., aged 78, General Epaphroditus Champion, long time a Member of Congress.

Violent gale on Lake Erie. Number of lives lost from the rise of water at Buffalo, and much
property destroyed.

Congress of U. S. voted thanks to General Lafayette, and gave him permission to return to
France.

American Privateer Tom, of Baltimore, captured British Packet Ship Townsend.

1814 Died, in Washington, D. C., aged 70, Elbridge Gerry, V. P. of U. S., Governor of Massachu

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setts, and one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

British Camp before New Orleans attacked by Americans under General Jackson.
Died, at New Orleans, aged 42, William C. C. Claiborne, the first Governor of Louisiana.
Skirmish at St. Dennis, L. C., wherein the British regulars are worsted by the Canadians.
Solemn gathering of the people of Rhode Island for the reception of the King's letters patent,
granted on the most honorable terms by Charles II.

Americans and British, under General Braddock, took possession of Fort du Quesne, which
the French had evacuated. From this date, the Fort received the name of Pitt, and the
city was called Pittsburg.

Died, in U C., aged 65, Thayendaneca, or Joseph Brant, the celebrated half-bred Onondaga
or Mohawk Indian.

1814 Treaty of Peace concluded at Ghent hetween Great Britain and the United States.
1829 Great fire at Camden, S. C. Loss, 150 000 dollars.

1834 More than half the town of Snowhill, Md., destroyed by fire.

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Died, at Philadelphia, aged 76, Colonel William Duane, the able Edit of "The Aurora."
Died, at Waterloo, N. Y., aged 63, Robert S. Rose, formerly M. C.

The British evacuated New York, and the Americans took possession of the city-peace and
ndependence being established.

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Born, at Salisbury. Conn., Josiah S. Johnston, Judge of Louisiana, Senator of U. S. He was
killed in 1833 by an explosion of gunpowder in the hold of the Lioness Steamboat, in
the Red River.

Died, at Charleston, S. C., aged 83, Major James Hamilton, a revolutionary officer.
Great fire at Johnstown, N. Y. Loss, 30,000 dollars.

The Canadian Insurgents defeated at St. Charles, L. C.

St. Charles, L. C. taken from the insurgent Canadians by the British troops under Colonel
Wetherell. 200 Canadians killed, 500 wounded. British, 3 killed, 18 wounded.

In consequence of a mutiny amongst the soldiers, Congress of the U. S. met at Annapolis, Md.
Solemn thanksgiving and prayer throughout the United States.

Great fire at Savannah, Georgia. 230 houses burnt.

Died, in Jefferson County, Va, Colonel William Darke, a distinguished officer in the wars of '55, '63, the revolutionary, and the Indian war under St. Clair.

Died, at Philadelphia, aged 71, Bushrod Washington, a celebrated Patriot, Jurist, and revolu-
tionary soldier.

The Washington Monument at Baltimore completed at an expense of 140,000 dollars.
Died, at Cincinnati, Ohio, George L. Kinnaird, M. C. from Indiana. He received his death
injuries on board the Flora Steamboat, at the time of the bursting of her boilers on
the 16th.

General Santa Anna, the President of Mexico, released from captivity by General Houston,
the President of Texas.

Great fire at Boston.

Died, John Fitz Winthrop, F. R. L., and Governor of Connecticut for 9 years.

British Frigate Southampton with her prize the U. S. Brig Vixen, wrecked on sunken rocks off Conception. American sailors earned the commendations of the English Admirał by their endeavors to save their wrecked conquerors.

Treaty of Ghent ratified by Great Britain.

Died, at New Hampton, N. H, aged 81, Major Thomas Simpson, a revolutionary soldier.
A Convention of 135 delegates from the principal banking houses in 18 States of the Union,
met in New York to debate the question of the resumption of specie payments.
Died, aged 55, William Whipple, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Died, at Steubenville, N. Y., aged 61, Frederick William Baron de Steuben, a Prussian
Baron, who served with distinguished success as Major General in the revolutionary
army of the United States of America.

Died, on board British Ship Revenge, in Baia Bay, Naples, aged 71, Francis Hastings, Earl
Rawdon, a British General connected with the revolutionary war in America.

A party of 90 Americans attacked near San Antonio or Bexar, in Texas, by 300 Mexicans;
40 of whom are killed, and but one American.

American Privateer Lee captured British Brig Nancy with ordnance and stores for British
army in America.

Dorchester, S. C., evacuated by the British on the approach of the Americans under General
Greene.

Earthquake in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and the New England States.
British Schooner of War Subtle upset in a squall while chasing American Privateer Favorite.
All hands perished.

1813 Georgia Militia, under General Floyd, destroyed Creek towns Tallassee and Autossee, con-
taining 400 houses, and killed 200 warriors, including the Kings of two Tribes.
Rappahannock, Va. taken by the British.

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Died, in Conn., aged 89, Hezekiah Ripley, D. D.

Provisional treaty signed at Paris between American and English Commissioners, acknowledging the Independence of the U. S.

1793 Treaty signed between the United States and the Creeks..

1836

Died, at Bellegrove, Va., aged 80, Major Isaac Hite, a revolutionary officer.