American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Georgia University (January 27, 1785) was founded by Abraham Baldwin, a signer of the Constitution of the United States. Through his far-sighted efforts, Baldwin secured for the university 40,000 acres of land. His expertise in law and ministry was manifest in his writing of the Charter of the College of Georgia: <An act for the more full and complete establishment of a public seat of learning in this State. When the minds of the people in general are viciously disposed and unprincipled, and their conduct disorderly, a free government will be attended with greater confusions and evils more horrid than...

Connecticut Western Reserve Lands (1785-1786) arrangements were enacted in the Legislature for the sale of the Western Reserve Lands, which included a provision that there should be reserved in each township: 500 acres for the gospel, 500 acres for schools and 240 acres: <To be granted in fee simple to the first gospel minister who shall settle in such town.> 1785CT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1785CT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Connecticut, 1785-1786. Allen Nevins, The American States During and After the Revolution: 1770-1789 (New York:...

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784-July 9, 1850) was the 12th President of the United States, 1849-50, famed as a national military hero; Major General during Mexican War, 1846-48; fought General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at Buena Vista, 1847; fought at Monterrey, Resaca de la Palma, Palo Alto, Matamoros, 1846; commanded Army of Occupation on Mexican border, 1845; took command of Fort Jesup, 1844; commanded Department of Florida, 1838; Brigadier General in Seminole War, 1836-37, fighting in the Battle of Okeehobee, 1837; Colonel in the Black Hawk War, 1832; took command of Fort Crawford, 1832, Fort Snelling, 1829; established Fort...

New Hampshire Constitution (June 2, 1784): <PART I, ARTICLE 1: All men are born equally free and independent; therefore all government of rights originates from the people... PART 1, ARTICLE 4. Among the natural rights, some are in their very nature unalienable, because no equivalent can be given or received for them. Of this kind are the Rights of Conscience. PART 1, ARTICLE 5. Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship GOD according to the dictates of his own conscience, and reason; and no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained in his person, liberty or estate...

Congress of the Confederation (January 14, 1784) ratified the peace treaty with Great Britain, which had been signed in Paris on September 3, 1783, thereby officially ending the Revolutionary War. The treaty began: <In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,...and of the United States of America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences....Done at Paris, this third day of September, in...