See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1804-1809.
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NEVADA:
The aboriginal inhabitants.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: SHOSHONEAN FAMILY.
NEVADA: A. D. 1848-1864.
Acquisition from Mexico.
Silver discoveries.
Territorial and State organization.
"Ceded to the United States at the same time, and, indeed, as
one with California [see MEXICO: A. D. 1848], this region of
the Spanish domain had not, like that west of the Sierra
Nevada, a distinctive name, but was described by local names,
and divided into valleys. In March following the treaty with
Mexico and the discovery of gold, the inhabitants of Salt Lake
valley met and organized the state of Deseret, the boundaries
of which included the whole of the recently acquired Mexican
territory outside of California, and something more." But
Congress, failing to recognize the state of Deseret, created
instead, by an act passed on the 9th of September, 1850, the
Territory of Utah, with boundaries which embraced Nevada
likewise. This association was continued until 1861, when the
Territory of Nevada was organized by act of Congress out of
western Utah. Meantime the discovery in 1859 of the
extraordinary deposit of silver which became famous as the
Comstock Lode, and other mining successes of importance, had
rapidly attracted to the region a large population of
adventurers. It was this which had brought about the separate
territorial organization. Three years later the young
territory was permitted to frame a state constitution and was
admitted into the Union in October, 1864.
_H. H. Bancroft,
History of the Pacific States,
volume 20: Nevada, page 66._
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NEVELLE, Battle of (1381).
See FLANDERS: A. D. 1379-1381.
NEVILLE'S CROSS, OR DURHAM, Battle of.
A crushing defeat suffered by an army of the Scots, invading
England under their young king, David Bruce, who was taken
prisoner. The battle was fought near Durham, October 17, 1346.
_J. H. Burton,
History of Scotland,
chapter 25 (volume 3)._
See SCOTLAND: A. D. 1333-1370.
NEW ALBION, The County Palatine of.
By a royal charter, witnessed by the Deputy-General of
Ireland, at Dublin, June 21, 1634, King Charles I. granted to
Sir Edmund Plowden and eight other petitioners, the whole of
Long Island ("Manitie, or Long Isle"), together with forty
leagues square of the adjoining continent, constituting the
said domain a county palatine and calling it New Albion, while
the island received the name of Isle Plowden. "In this
document the boundaries of New Albion are so defined as to
include all of New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and
Pennsylvania embraced in a square, the eastern side of which,
forty leagues in length, extended (along the coast) from Sandy
Hook to Cape May, together with Long Island, and all other
'isles and islands in the sea within ten leagues of the shores
of the said region.' The province is expressly erected into a
county palatine, under the jurisdiction of Sir Edmund Plowden
as earl, depending upon his Majesty's' royal person and
imperial crown, as King of Ireland.'" Subsequently, within the
year 1634, the whole of the grant was acquired by and became
vested in Plowden and his three sons. Sir Edmund, who died in
1659, spent the remainder of his life in futile attempts to
make good his claim against the Swedes on the Delaware and the
Dutch, and in exploiting his magnificent title as Earl
Palatine of New Albion. The claim and the title seem to have
reappeared occasionally among his descendants until some time
near the close of the 18th century.
_G. B. Keen,
Note on New Albion.
(Narrative and Critical History of America,
J. Winsor, editor, volume 3, pages 457-468)._
ALSO IN:
_S. Hazard,
Annals of Pennsylvania,
pages 36-38 and 108-112._