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 (IUFFNF Siege of l-'ort Ninclv six. raised by (lie :i.l aneo of LordlJawdon, I. ill followed by the immediate evacuation of the post nnl the retreat of the enemy to ward the osl ; the drawn lint lie of Kulaw Springs, tho hardest fought Held of the Mild (lie adv. 'Hire ii|.on Dorchester, spoken of I'.v Washington as "another proof of the singular al'ililies of" (ien. (troono. II pivseiited him uilh a medal for the battle of Kutnw Springs, and I u o of (lie cannon taken iVom I lie enemy for his general cr ices. The Carolina* and (loorgia made him valuable grants of proper! . Afier passing a year in Rhode Island, ho removed to Mulberry (irovo on tin* Savannah river, where he died of sun stroke. A monument was voted by congrc. but never ireeted, and all traces of his hnrial place have boon lost. lie left, t u o sons and I hive daughters, and an estate seriously em harrasgcd hy his oUorts in 17HIJ to food and elolhe his -irmx. (iUKKNK. I. NNthftnlH, an Ameriean author, horn in Uoseawon, N. II., May l!0, IV'.>7. At the ago of 1'2 hocntercd the ollice of t ho " New Hampshire Patriot " at Concord, and at l.'> he- j came editor of the " Concord lia/otlo." Re ' to Portsmouth in ISM, he oil it oil fora I year the "New Hampshire (Ja/.ette." From 'isi.'i to IS17 he conducted t he " ( ia/elte " at llaverhill, Mass. lie commenced the puhliea lion ,,f the " Fssex Patriot" at llaverhill in Ma, lsi;, niid eondnelod it for nearly four years, when he removed to Boston, and cslal' iished, l-'eh. (>, 1 S'J 1, the " Moston Statesman," which hocame the loading ilomoeratie journal ol'the state. In IS'J'.I, on the election of Pros ident .lackson, Mr. (Jrocnc was mado post- master of Post. >n, hieh ollieo he held till ISII.and again from |S|,">io ISp.t. In IS.'ii; he translated a "Hi-. lory of Italy " from the Italian of Sfor/.o/.i, vv hich was followed hy the translation of two volumes of "Talcs from the Cerman " (Hoston, IS:?;). Six years later he published "Tales and Sketclies from the French, Herman, and Italian." U. Umrlos Gordon, an American journalist, hrother of the preceding, horn in Uoscawon, N. 11., .Inly 1, l^o I At an e:irl ar.e ho was place. 1 in' tho otlloo of tlio " Kssex Patriot "as an apprentice, whence lie was removed to a print itii;- otlice at K'ter. At IS ho went to Uostoii, and ho came connected with the "Statesman," his Ill-other's journal. lie conducted in IS .',* '('. tho ' 1 ' at Tannlon. Ki-turning to Hoston. he puhlMiod a literary paper, 'the "Speetiitor," atu-r which he resiimcd his con nection with the "Statesman." In 1827 he removed (,. Philadelphia, whore he was one I onddOtonof the " National Palladium," the tiixi Pennsylvania journal that ailvocated the election of (Jon. .laekson to the proMdencv. 18 he WM employed in tlu> otlice of the " Tinted States Telegraph." conducted hy li "' I 'nil* C.rci'ii, at Washington, then the pnncipal journal of the democratic party. After the election of Jackson he succeeded ., 1:1.1 i ir.i.h his hrother Nathaniel as one of the proprietors and publishers of the "Statesman," of which he finally hecamo sole proprietor. On Nov. '., |S:t|. he issue. 1 the lirsl numher of t he l>os ton " Morning Post." lie has several times heen a candidate tor memher of congress, lie was naval ollieer at Most on from |s;>;; to IS <;KIIM, Kobort, an l ; n:'li h dramatist and miscellaiietuis writer, horn at Ipswich ahoiit l.'.r.O, lied in London, Sept. ;5, IfiD'J. lie was educated at Catnhrid^e, and studied for a w hiU also at (Kl'ord. Although hrcd t o a profession, lu< followed the career of an author, rivalling his hrother dramatists, if not always in dramat- ic power, at least in prollifacx . His life was spent alternately in plenty and pciiurv. lleiu:-; deserted hy all his friends, he was indebted for shelter and attendance in his last sickness to a poor eohhler and his wife, lie was a prolific writer, and in addition to his dramas, of which onlv live that are certainly his have come down to us, wrote poem--, tales, and pamphlets. Some of his poems are character- i/ed hy much elegance of diction. His talc of " Pandosto, or the Historic of Poraslus and Kaniua," furnished Shakespeare the plot for his " Winter's Tale." In " A (Jroat'.s orth of Wit hought with a Million of Kcpcntanoo," (ireene alludes to Shakespeare as "an upstart, crow hoautitiod with our leal hers in his own conceit tho only .v/M/l, xr<'n<- in a country." An edition of his works was published hy tho Kev. A. hveo in I SHI ('.' vols. Svo). (.KIIMHII), the shire town of 1'ranklin co., Massachusetts, on the W. bank of the Connecticut river, 'JO m. N.of Northampton, and SO m. W. N. W. of Ho-toti; pop. in ISTO,
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Vermont and Massachusetts with the Connec- ticut Kiver railroad, and is connected with Alhany and Troy hy the Troy and (iroentiold line, which passes through the lloosac tunnel. It is supplied with water power hy Cirocn and L'all rivers, the latter of which forms part of (he I', boundary, besides the county buildings, it contains three manufactories of hardw are for children's carriages, one of children's carriages, one of bolt culling machines, one of plumbs and lovoK one of bench planes and o shoes, atannerv, a carriage factor, and a sasli uiul blind factory. The first manufactory of table cutlery in the I'nitod States was established here by John Russell in ISlM, under tho name of the tlreen Kiver manufacturing company; destroyed by tire in IS.'Ui, it was rebuilt near Cireenlield village, but within the limits of the town ol heertield. The ,1. Russell manufac- turing company of table cutlery was estab- lished in IS.Vi; in IS7H its works were ro- moved to Turner's Falls, a village on the F. bank of the Connecticut, '.' m. from lireclt- tield, with which it is connected hy a suspen- sion bridge built in IS7-. Ureentiold contains two national hanks with an aggregate capital of $."iOO,OUO, two savings banks with depos- its amounting to $:v>00,000, four hotels, gas