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Hutton registered nine people as lifetime slaves in 1780 [4] and sixteen children as term slaves [5] between 1788 and her death in 1797. [6] Her 1795 last will and testament identified twenty-six enslaved people by name. [7] All told, Hutton enslaved at least thirty-six people during her lifetime. [8]
February 6 – Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 6th U.S. state (see History of Massachusetts). March 21 – Great New Orleans Fire (1788) kills 25% of the population and destroys 856 buildings, including St. Louis Cathedral and the Cabildo, leaving most of the town in ruins. At the time New Orleans was a ...
Definitions of the geographic components of the Mid-Atlantic region differ slightly among sources. [15] Generally speaking, the region is inclusive of the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, and the federal district of the District of Columbia, with some additional sources including or excluding other areas in parts of the Northeast ...
Unlike New England, the Mid-Atlantic region gained much of its population from new immigration and, by 1750, the combined populations of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania had reached nearly 300,000 people. By 1750, about 60,000 Irish and 50,000 Germans came to live in British North America, many of them settling in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Josiah Holbrook (June 17, 1788 – June 20, 1854) was the initiator and organizer of the lyceum movement in the United States. He formed the first industrial school in the country in 1819, organized the first lyceum school in the country in 1826 and inspired the foundation of the American Lyceum Association, the first national education association.
The Constitution took effect after eleven states ratified the document in 1788, and George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States on March 4, 1789. After the passage of the Residence Act , Philadelphia again served as the capital of the nation from 1790 to 1800 prior to the development of Washington, D.C. as the ...
1855: New York Women's Hospital opened in 1855 as the first hospital solely devoted to ailments affiliated with women. [8] 1869: Wyoming is the first territory to give women the right to vote. [9] 1870: Louisa Ann Swain is the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election. She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie ...
The Mid-Atlantic is a region of the United States located in the overlap between the Northeastern and Southeastern states of the United States.Its exact definition differs upon source, but the region typically includes New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia, District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania.