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Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (1748-1816), a powerfully built, twenty-year-old Scotsman with a booming voice and fierce countenance, must have captured the attention of his younger classmates when he entered the class of 1771. Instead of courting the Muses, he appeared better suited for clearing the barrens of York...
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In 1781, at the end of a journey of weeks across the mountain wilderness, Hugh Henry Brackenridge got his first glimpse of the crude village of log houses scattered at the forks of the Ohio.
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BRACKENRIDGE, Hugh Henry, jurist, born neat" Campbelton, Scotland, in 1748; died in Catlisle, Pennsylvania, 25 June, 1816. When five years old he accompanied his father, a poor farmer, to this country, and settled in York County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland border.
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Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in a small village in western Scotland near Cambeltown. His family emigrated to Philadelphia around 1753 and settled in York County, Pennsylvania.
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Poet: Hugh Henry Brackenridge - All poems of Hugh Henry Brackenridge .. poetry ... Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 - 1816) ... 2 poems of Hugh Henry Brackenridge ; File Size:319 k ; File Format: Acrobat Reader...
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The tragedies of Hugh Henry Brackenridge, the American lawyer-author (1748-1816), have been mentioned elsewhere. ... Samuel Woodworth, the creator of Jonathan Ploughboy, a Yankee character made familiar by J.H. Hackett, Alexander Simpson, G.H. Hill, Henry Placide and Joshua Silsbee, was born in Scituate, Mass.,
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Born in Scotland, Brackenridge was brought to York County, Pennsylvania in 1753. At fifteen, he was a successful schoolteacher in Maryland. In 1773, he enrolled at Princeton to be trained for the Presbyterian ministry by its president, John Witherspoon.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Brackenridge, Hugh Henry. Brackenridge, Hugh Henry. Information about Brackenridge, Hugh Henry in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... Brackenhill; Brackenhills railway station; Brackenlands; Brackenridge; Brackenridge, Henry Marie; Brackenridge, Henry Marie; Brackenridge,
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In 1651, Henry Dunster, president of Harvard College, published a revision of the book. He prepared the revision with the aid of Richard Lyon, a Harvard tutor. The revision became popular not only in the colonies but also in England and Scotland.
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