Forces supplied to the Revolutionary Army by each State, from New Hampshire New York... 1775 to 1783, inclusive. Total. New Jersey.. Chronological List of the Cabinet Officers of each Administration. First Administration ;- ...... Thomas Jefferson, 1789 to 1797; -8 years. Vice-President. April 30, 1789. President. ...Feb. Massachusetts,..Sept. 12, 1789. Secretaries of State. Secretaries of the Treasury. ..Pennsylvania, ..Jan. 2, 1795. Secretaries of War. .Maryland, ...Jan. 27, 1796. Massachusetts, ..Sept. 26, 1789. ..Pennsylvania,...Nov. 7, 1791. Postmasters General. ..Georgia, .Feb. 25, 1795. .Virginia,.. .Sept. 26, 1789. ...Pennsylvania,...Jan. 27, 1794. Attorneys General. Virginia,... .Dec. 10, 1795. Second Administration;-1797 to 1801; JOHN ADAMS, ..........Massachusetts,..March 4, 1797. Timothy Pickering, Samuel Dexter,. Roger Griswold,. George Cabot, Virginia,........March 4, 1797. Benjamin Stoddert,. .....Maryland, ........... Third Administration ;- 1801 to 1809;-8 years. John Breckenridge, Appointed. .Virginia,.. .March 5, 1801. Vice-Presidents. Secretary of State. .Kentucky, ..Dec. 23, 1805. Attorneys General. Cæsar A. Rodney,....... Delaware, ......Jan. 20, 1807. Fourth Administration; - 1809 to 1817;-8 years. Virginia,.... March 4, 1809. George Clinton,... ..N. Y., 1809, (died April 20, 1812.) JAMES MADISON, Elbridge Gerry, Robert Smith, James Monroe, James Monroe,........................... Virginia,. ..Feb. 28, 1815. Albert Gallatin,. .Pennsylvania,...(cont'd in office.) George W. Campbell,...Tennessee, ..... Feb. 9, 1814. Gideon Granger,. Return J. Meigs,. Connecticut,....(cont'd in office.) .Ohio, Cæsar A. Rodney, ......Delaware, ......(cont'd in office.) President. Secretaries of State. Secretaries of the Treasury. Secretaries of War. Secretaries of the Postmasters General. William Pinkney,............... .Maryland, ..Dec. 11, 1811. Attorneys General. Richard Rush,.......... ...Pennsylvania,... Feb. 10, 1814. Fifth Administration; - 1817 to 1825-8 years. JAMES MONROE, Virginia, March 4, 1817. Daniel D. Tompkins, ... New York,......March 4, 1817. Appointed. John Q. Adams,........Massachusetts,.. March 5, 1817. President. Secretary of State .Kentucky, Isaac Shelby,. Secretaries of War. Secretaries of the Sixth Administration; -1825 to 1829;-4 years. Henry Clay,... Richard Rush,. James Barbour, Peter B. Porter,.. Appointed. ..Kentucky, ..March 8, 1825. ..Pennsylvania,...March 7, 1825. Virginia,..... .March 7, 1825. New York,.... May 26, 1828. Samuel L. Southard,....New Jersey, •(cont'd in office.) ..... .... .... Seventh Administration; ANDREW JACKSON,...... Tennessee, President. Secretary of State. Sec. of the Navy. Vice-Presidents .March 4, 1833. John C. Calhoun,.......South Carolina, . March 4, 1829. Martin Van Buren, .....New York,. Eighth Administration ;- 1837 to 1841;-4 years. MARTIN VAN BUREN,...New York,......March 4, 1837. Joel R. Poinsett,. .....New Hampshire, (cont'd in office.) ..... Mahlon Dickerson,. New Jersey, .(cont'd in office.) Amos Kendall, Ninth Administration; President. Secretary of State. President. Secretary of State. ..North Carolina, ........................................... Sec. of the Navy, .New York, Postmaster General. . Attorney General 4 Record of Events connected with the History of the United States. 1492. Columbus, on the 12th of October, landed at San Salvador, one of the Bahama Islands. He was the first European who set foot in the New World. 1493. He discovered St. Domingo, Jamaica, and other islands in the vicinity. 1497. North America was discovered by John Cabot and his son, who sailed from England on an exploring expedition. 1498. Columbus discovered South America. 1607. Jamestown, in Virginia, was founded. 1609. New York was discovered by Henry Hudson. 1613. The Dutch erected a fort near Albany, and established a few trading houses at New York, then New Amsterdam, Manhattan Island. 1620. The Mayflower arrived at Plymouth; her crew commenced the first settlement in Massachusetts. This year the Dutch first introduced slaves into Virginia. 1634. A settlement was made in Maryland by Lord Baltimore. 1635. The first settlement was made in Connecticut. 1664. New York, then New Amsterdam, was surrendered by the Dutch into the hands of the English. 1680. Carolina began to be permanently settled. 1681. A settlement was made in Pennsylvania by William Penn. 1720. Difficulties arose between the representatives of the people and the governor of New England. 1721. Carolina was divided into North and South Carolina. 1733. The first settlement was made in Georgia. At this period the whole coast between New Brunswick and Florida became settled with colonies, under the government of Great Britain. 1748. Delegates from seven of the colonies met at Albany to hold a conference with the Indians. 1755. Braddock was defeated by the Indians. George Washington was his aid, and took command after Braddock and others in command were slain. 1764. The British Parliament enacted a law imposing a duty on certain articles of merchandise. The colonies denied the right, asserting that they had domestic governments, which they alone supported. 1765. The stamp act was passed by Great Britain. This led to a quarrel between the colonies and the mother country. 1770. An affray took place between the British and Americans, in King Street, Boston, (now State Street,) in which four persons were killed, and others wounded. 1773. The tea, sent from England, was thrown from the ships into the sea, in Boston harbor. Soon after, large bodies of troops were sent to subject the people. 1774. The General Court of Massachusetts recommended a Continental Congress. It first assembled in 1775, in October. 1775. General Gage was commander-in-chief of the British forces in America. This year the militia was fired at by the British at Lexington, Massachusetts, and a battle followed. A few months after, the battle of Bunker Hill took place. 1775. Bills of credit, or paper money, were first authorized by Congress. The population of the colonies at this time, about three millions. 1776. A written constitution was adopted by New Hampshire. It acknowledged no source of power but the people. This was the first adopted in the colonies. This same year, Congress recommended the colonies generally to adopt constitutions. 1776. July 4, the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed by order of Congress. 1776. December. A law was passed by the English Parliament, amounting to a declaration of war against the colonies. 1777. September. The battle of Stillwater was fought. 1777. Congress adopted articles of confederation, which were subsequently ratified by the several states. 1778. The independence of the United States was acknowledged by France. 1779. Up to this period $150,000,000 of paper money had been issued by order of Congress. : Thirty dollars of paper were given for one of silver people finally refused to take it. 1781. Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington at Yorktown. The British naval force at this place was at the same time surrendered to count de Grasse. 1782. Pacific overtures were made by Great Britain to the colonies. John Adams, of Massachusetts, had been previously appointed, on the part of the colonies, to treat with Great Britain; three others were now added to act with him. Preliminary articles were, in November of this year, agreed upon at Paris. 1783. December. A definite treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States was signed. 1783. The patriot army was dissolved. year, the British troops left New York. In November of this "Independence and peace did not immediately produce all the advantages which had been anticipated by an ardent and sanguine people. The evils of war were protracted beyond its duration. Public and private debts bore heavily upon the people, restraining their enterprise, and demanding all their resources.' 1786. In Massachusetts, the commercial distress, and the difficulty of effecting exchanges of property, was so great, that an assembly of two thousand persons chose Daniel Shays for their leader, and demanded that the collection of debts should be suspended, and that the legislature should authorize an emis |