Identifier: historyofnewyork00loss_0 (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Perine, George E
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) History New York (N.Y.) Biography
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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one of the leading men in civil and military life throughoutthe war for independence. He entered the army as colonel, and was a major-general in1777. A delegate in Congress in 1781, he was soon appointed Minister of Marine(Secretary of the Navy), but did not hold the office long. He returned to the army.He was chosen a senator of the State of New York in 1783, and held that position at thetime of his death. \ John Morin Scott was born in New York in 1730 : died there September 14, 1784.He was a graduate of Yalo College, became a lawyer, and holding a forcible pen, hejoined William Livingston in writing against ministerial measures for years before thebreaking out of the war for independence. He was a most active and influential memberof the Provincial Congress of New York, and of committees. In 177G he was made abrigadier-general, and fought in the battle of Long Island. In 1777 he was chosen Statesenator ; was Secretary of the State of New York, and was a member of Congress 1780-83.
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OUTLINE HISTORY, 1009-1830. 31 mous vote the proceedings of the assembly were disapproved. A com-mittee presented the proceedings of the meeting to the assembly, andwere courteously received. Another handbill from the same hand,signed Legion, appeared the next day, in which the action of theassembly was denounced as base and inglorious, and charged thatbody with a betrayal of their trust. This second attack was pro-nounced a libel by the assembly, only the stanch patriot Philip Schuy-ler voting No. They offered a reward for the discovery of the writer.The printer of the handbills, menaced with punishment, told them itwas Alexander McDongall, a seaman, who was afterward a conspicuousolKcer in the Continental army. He was arrested, and refusing toplead or give bail, was imprisoned many weeks before he was broughtto trial. Regarded as a martyr to the cause of liberty, his prison wasthe scene of daily public receptions. Some of the most reputable ofthe citizens sympathizing with him frequ

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