Identifier: historyofuniteds01jone (find matches)
Title: A history of the United States in chronological order from A. D. 432 to the present time
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Jones, Frederick Thomas
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Publisher: New York, The World
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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4-.>- /- ^< e ^^^/^^QU-^^<-<^r-^^ History of the U.dted States. l29 1820. of the planting- of mulberry trees and tlie breeding of silkworms, 3 May. The American Home Missionary Soeiety is organized in New-York, 10 May. William Morgan, of Batavia, N. Y., having written for publi-cation a work alleged to contain an exposure of Free-Masomy,is arrested on a criminal process and taken to Canandaigua,where he is imprisoned; he is released, 12 Sep., and forciblytaken to the Niagara frontier, where he is last seen; the ab-duction creates intense excitement throughout the country;rewards are offered in vain for the discovery of Morgan alive,or if nuu-dered, of the offenders; an anti-Mason party is formedand has a rapid spread. William Charles Macready, the English tragedian, appearsfor the first time in the U. S., at New York, 3 Oct. The first railroad constructed in the U. S. with metallictracks is opened 7 Oct.; it extends from the granite quarries atQuincy, Mass., to ti

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