American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Fisher Ames (April 9, 1758-July 4, 1808) was an American founder and politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1789-97, who help formulate the Bill of Rights in the First Session of the U.S. Congress. He graduated from Harvard, 1774, and became of member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1788, where he participated in the state's ratification of the U.S. Constitution. He was chosen a member of the Governor's Council, 1798, and served until 1800, the year he was honored by the Massachusetts Legislature to deliver the message upon the occasion of George Washington's death. In 1804,...

Georgia Act (January 11, 1758) passed in the Assembly: <For constituting the several Divisions and Districts of this Province into Parishes, and for establishing Religious Worship therein, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England...[Each clergyman of the Established Church of England to receive from the government a salary of £25 per annum.]> 1758GA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1758GA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Georgia Act, January 11, 1758, passed in the Assembly.

James McGready (c.1758-February 1817) was a pastor of a congregation in Orange County, North Carolina, 1790, and three small congregations in Logan County, Kentucky, 1796. His ministry contributed to the great revivals of 1797, 1798, and 1799, which preceded the Great Revival of 1800. In 1811, he pioneered churches in South Indiana. James McGready wrote A Short Narrative of the Revival of Religion in Logan County in the State of Kentucky and the Adjacent Settlements in the State of Tennessee from May 1797 until 1800. In 1797, James McGready, together with others in Kentucky, agreed: <Therefore, we bind ourselves to...

Richard Johnson (1757-1827) was the first chaplain to the Colony of New South Wales in Australia. Recommended to that position by William Wilberforce and the Rev. John Newton, Richard Johnson, and his wife, Mary Burton, sailed with the First Fleet on May 13, 1787. On January 26, 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip and Captain John Hunter directed the Fleet up harbor to Sydney amidst warlike demonstrations by the natives from the shore. Upon their landing, they raised the British flag, toasted their Majesties and gave a gun salute. On Sunday, February 3, 1788, Chaplain Richard Johnson preached his first sermon under a...

Marquis de Lafayette (September 6, 1757-May 20, 1834) was a descendant of one of the oldest French families, with ancestors who fought in the Crusades and alongside of Joan of Arc. His father died when he was a child, and when he was a youth, he was trained in the French Military. At age 19, Marquis de Lafayette purchased a ship and sailed to America, arriving June 13, 1777. He was appointed a Major General in the Continental Army, though he paid his own expenses. Lafayette endured the freezing winter at Valley Forge, was wounded at Brandywine, and fought with distinction...