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Ellsworth   /ˈɛlzwərθ/   Listen
Ellsworth

noun
1.
United States jurist and the third chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1807).  Synonym: Oliver Ellsworth.





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... Early, Jubal, East India Company, East Indies, trade with, Eastern Colonies, occupations, etc., Eastport captured, Edmunds Law, Electoral college, Electoral commission, Electricity, Elizabeth, Queen, Elizabeth City captured, Ellmaker, Amos, Ellsworth, Oliver, Emancipation, agitation; Proclamation; cost of. Embargo laws. Emigration, western. Endicott, John. English, possessions; settlements; relations with France; relations with Indians; government of colonies; attitude to colonies; war with colonies; at war ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
 
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... who were present on this occasion were John Langdon of New Hampshire, one of the purest and most disinterested of the Revolutionary veterans; Oliver Ellsworth, from Connecticut, afterward chief justice of the United States; Roger Sherman, also from Connecticut, one of the committee for preparing the Declaration of Independence; Rufus King, the eloquent statesman from New York; ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing
 
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... times. I saw the Gunpowder Bridge in flames when Baltimore was in arms and the Capital cut off from the North. I saw from Perryville the State flag of Maryland waving at Havre de Grace across the Susquehanna. I saw at the Washington Navy Yard the blackened body of Ellsworth, manipulated by the surgeons. I moved through the city with McClellan's onward army toward the transports which were to carry it to the Peninsula. The awful tidings of the seven days' retreat came first through the Capital in my haversack, ...
— Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, - and His Romaunt Abroad During the War • George Alfred Townsend
 
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... long and warm debates elicited by the resolutions of Governor Randolph and others, were King, Gerry, and Gorham, of Massachusetts; Hamilton and Lansing, of New York; Ellsworth, Johnson, and Sherman, of Connecticut; Paterson, of New Jersey, who presented a scheme counter to that of Randolph; Franklin, Wilson, and Morris, of Pennsylvania; Dickinson, of Delaware; Martin, of Maryland; Randolph, Madison, and Mason, of Virginia; Williamson, of North ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing
 
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... commodities of which they will become the carriers," said John Rutledge, of South Carolina, in the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States. "What enriches a part enriches the whole and the states are the best judges of their particular interest," responded Oliver Ellsworth, the distinguished ...
— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
 
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... Ellsworth Remsen, whose old Knickerbocker descent atoned for his modest rating at only ten millions, ate his canned beef gayly by the campfires of the Gentle Riders. The war was a great lark to him, so that he scarcely regretted ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
 
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Words linked to "Ellsworth" :   Oliver Ellsworth, chief justice



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