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Richard Lippincott (Loyalist)
Captain Richard Lippincott, U.E. (January 2, 1745 – May 14, 1826) was an American-born Loyalist (American Revolution), Loyalist who served in the British Army during the American War of Independence. He is best known for his part in the Asgill Affair in which he hanged an enemy officer, Joshua Huddy, in revenge for similar murders of Loyalists, provoking an international incident. Lippincott was born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, a member of an old colonial family. He married on March 4, 1770, Esther Borden, daughter of Jeremiah and Esther Borden, of Bordentown, New Jersey. On the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he sided with the Crown. Captured early in the war and confined in the jail at Burlington, New Jersey, he escaped in 1776 and made his way to the British Army at Staten Island. He fought with the New Jersey Volunteers, which David Gagan described as an irregular group that fought guerilla warfare behind American lines. In 1782, Lippincott's brother-in-law, Phili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrewsbury, New Jersey
Shrewsbury is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Centrally located in the Jersey Shore region in the New York Metropolitan area, the borough is an historic bedroom community of New York City. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 3,809,DP-1 – Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Shrewsbury borough, Monmouth County, New Jersey , United States Census Bureau. Accessed August 1, 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Run A Gauntlet
Run(s) or RUN may refer to: Places * Run (island), one of the Banda Islands in Indonesia * Run (stream), a stream in the Dutch province of North Brabant People * Run (rapper), Joseph Simmons, now known as "Reverend Run", from the hip-hop group Run–DMC * Giacomo Bufarini, known as RUN, Italian artist based in London, UK Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Run'' (1991 film), an American action thriller film * ''Run'', a 1994 Hong Kong film featuring Leon Lai * ''Run'' (2002 film), an Indian Tamil film directed by N. Linguswamy starring Madhavan * ''Run'' (2004 film), an Indian film, a Hindi remake of the Tamil film * ''Run'', a 2009 Croatian film directed by Nevio Marasović * ''Run'', a 2013 film featuring William Moseley * ''The Run (2013 film)'', Malaysian film also known by it Malay-language title ''Lari'' * ''Run'' (2014 film), a French-Ivorian film * ''Run'' (2016 film), an Indian Telugu film * ''The Run'' (film), a 2017 Australian-Indian documentary * ''Run' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York, Upper Canada
York was a town and second capital of the colony of Upper Canada. It is the predecessor to the Old Toronto, old city of Toronto (1834–1998). It was established in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as a "temporary" location for the capital of Upper Canada, while he made plans to build a capital near today's London, Ontario. Simcoe renamed the location York after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, George III of the United Kingdom, George III's second son. Simcoe gave up his plan to build a capital at London, and York became the permanent capital of Upper Canada on February 1, 1796. That year Simcoe returned to Britain and was temporarily replaced by Peter Russell (politician), Peter Russell. The original townsite was a compact ten blocks near the mouth of the Don River (Ontario), Don River and a Fort York, garrison was built at the channel to Toronto Harbour. Government buildings and a law court were established. Yonge Street was built, connecting York to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Taylor Denison
Captain George Taylor Denison (December 29, 1783 – December 18, 1853) was a British-born landowner, military officer and community leader in Upper Canada (later Canada West). Life and career He was born in England, the son of Captain John Denison and Sophia Taylor. He traveled to Upper Canada and the town of York, Upper Canada, in 1796 with his parents and two brothers. He inherited the bulk of his family's property and, after the War of 1812, purchased and acquired land through marriage around what is now the Kensington Market neighborhood of Toronto. At the end of his life, he held in York and was one of the wealthiest landowners in Canada West. He married four times and fathered thirteen children; he wed Esther Borden Lippincott (daughter of Richard Lippincott) in 1806, Maria Taylor in 1828, Elizabeth Eleanor Caldwell in 1835, and Mary Priscilla Coates in 1850. In 1815, he built an estate named Belle Vue (including an orchard and farm) on the south side of Russell Creek, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaughn Township
Vaughn may refer to: Places in the United States *Vaughn, California, former name of Bodfish, California * Vaughn, Montana *Vaughn, New Mexico *Vaughn, Oregon *Vaughn, Pennsylvania *Vaughn, Virginia *Vaughn, Washington Name * Vaughn (surname), list of notable people with the surname *Vaughn Bodē (1941–1975), underground comics writer *Vaughn Duggins (born 1987), American basketball player *Vaughn Flora (1945-2022), American politician *Vaughn Meader (1936–2004), American comedian and impressionist * Vaughn Monroe (1911–1973), American singer * Vaughn Taylor (1910-1983), American movie and TV actor * Vaughn Taylor (born 1976), American golf-player *Vaughn van Jaarsveld (born 1985), South African cricketer *Vaughn Walker (born 1944), federal judge Other * Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, New York * Vaughn (band), hard rock band * Vaughn Hockey, sports equipment maker See also * Vaughan (other) ** Vaughan (surname) ** Vaughan (given name) * Justice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763. Upper Canada included all of modern-day Southern Ontario and all those areas of Northern Ontario in the which had formed part of New France, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River or Lakes Huron and Superior, excluding any lands within the watershed of Hudson Bay. The "upper" prefix in the name reflects its geographic position along the Great Lakes, mostly above the headwaters of the Saint Lawrence River, contrasted with Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) to the northeast. Upper Canada was the primary destination of Loyalist refugees and settlers from the United States after the American Revolution, who often were granted land to settle in Upper Canada. Already populated by Indigenous peoples, land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native English-speakers, and the province's population is 969,383 according to the 2021 Census. It is the most populous of Canada's Atlantic provinces. It is the country's second-most densely populated province and second-smallest province by area, both after Prince Edward Island. Its area of includes Cape Breton Island and 3,800 other coastal islands. The Nova Scotia peninsula is connected to the rest of North America by the Isthmus of Chignecto, on which the province's land border with New Brunswick is located. The province borders the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, and is separated from Prince Edward Island and the island of Newfoundland by the Northumberland and Cabot straits, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evacuation Day (New York)
Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when the British Army departed from New York City on Manhattan Island, after the end of the American Revolutionary War. In their wake, General George Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army from his headquarters north of the city across the Harlem River, and south through Manhattan to the Battery at its southern tip. History Background Following the significant losses at the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, General George Washington and the Continental Army retreated across the East River by benefit of both a retreat and holding action by well-trained Maryland Line troops at Gowanus Creek and Canal and a night fog which obscured the barges and boats evacuating troops to Manhattan Island. On September 15, 1776, the British flag replaced the American atop Fort George, where it was to remain until Evacuation Day. Washington's Continentals subsequently withdrew north and west out of the town and following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphreys
Humphreys may refer to: Places * Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge, Arkansas-Mississippi *Camp Humphreys, U.S. Camp in South Korea *Humphreys, Missouri *Humphreys County, Mississippi *Humphreys County, Tennessee * Humphreys County Airport, Tennessee *Humphreys County School District, Mississippi * Humphreys National Forest, Virginia *Humphreys Peak, the highest point in Arizona *Humphreys Station, California *Mount Humphreys, a peak in the Sierra Nevada Other uses *Humphreys (surname) * 10172 Humphreys, main belt asteroid * Humphreys College, Californian college * Humphreys series, spectral line emissions of the hydrogen atom *Humphreys (Unigate) The British milk company Unigate produced a series of TV advertisements in the 1970s featuring characters called the Humphreys. The Humphreys were milk thieves whose only visible presence was a red-and-white striped straw with which to suck up the ..., characters featured in a 1970s advertising campaign for milk * USS ''Humphreys'' (DD-236), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smith (judge, Born 1728)
William Smith (18 June 1728 – 6 December 1793) was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually the loyalist Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1780 to 1782 and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec from 1786, later Lower Canada, from 1791 until his death. Early life Born in New York City on June 18, 1728, he was the son of Judge William Smith. His brother, Joshua Hett Smith was notable as the supposed "dupe" of Benedict Arnold and Major John André when they collaborated during the American Revolution. Smith graduated from Yale University in 1745, studied law with William Livingston, and was admitted to the bar in 1750. Family His brother, Doctor Thomas Smith, was the owner of the " treason house" in West Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York that was being occupied by his other brother, Joshua Hett Smith, at the time that Benedict Arnold and Major John André planned their conspiracies. Career During the American Revolution, he was referred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Clinton (British Army Officer, Born 1730)
General Sir Henry Clinton, KB (16 April 1730 – 23 December 1795) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1772 and 1795. He is best known for his service as a general during the American War of Independence. First arriving in Boston in May 1775, from 1778 to 1782 he was the British Commander-in-Chief in North America. In addition to his military service, due to the influence of his cousin Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, he was a Member of Parliament for many years. Late in life he was named Governor of Gibraltar, but died before assuming the post. Early life Henry Clinton was born on 16 April 1730, to Admiral George Clinton and Anne Carle, the daughter of a general. Willcox, 1964, p. 5. Early histories claimed his birth year as 1738, a date widely propagated even in modern biographic summaries; according to biographer William Willcox, Clinton claimed in a notebook found in 1958 to be born in 1730, and that evidence fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
