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 Sargent Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Sargent Hall is located in the West Green, between coordinates E-4 and F-4 on the campus map.
Sargent Hall, located on the West Green, is a four-story residence hall.
Sargent Hall was named in honor of Winthrop Sargent.
www.ohiou.edu /athens/bldgs/sargent.html   (167 words)

  
 Heath Anthology of American LiteratureJudith Sargent Murray - Author Page
She was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Captain Winthrop Sargent and Judith Saunders.
A socially prominent family, the Sargents were distinguished by their political activity: Winthrop Sargent served in the provisional government during the Revolutionary War, and his son Winthrop was honored by Washington for his military activities.
At an early age Judith Sargent exhibited so high a degree of intelligence that her parents encouraged her to study with her brother, who was preparing with a local Gloucester minister for entrance to Harvard.
college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/eighteenth/murray_ju.html   (1077 words)

  
  27543-1-II - State of Washington, Respondent v. Jeffrey M. Tamblin, Appellant File Date: 02/03/2004
Deputy {Sargent} searched the kitchen stove area because based on his training and experience a stove is often used as a heat source for methamphetamine manufacturing and could possibly pose a risk of explosion.
Deputy Sargent's safety concerns were further supported by what he believed was a chemical reaction that had produced the gas cloud which presented a potential hazard because someone could be overcome by the fumes or the fumes could present a hazard of explosion.
Deputy Sargent{'s} warrantless search of the kitchen stove and the stove drawer was within the scope of the safety check of the premises when he searched the stove and the stove drawer for active laboratory chemicals or components.
www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/slip/appellate/275431MAJ.htm   (2795 words)

  
 The Enterprise at SouthofBoston.com
Board of Health Chairman Winthrop Sargent said the mold-contaminated cafeteria was ordered closed by the board and will not reopen until it has been removed.
Sargent said if the infected areas of the roof and ceiling can be sealed off to protect the children, the cafeteria will be allowed to reopen.
Sargent said it now appears that while the roof was under construction last spring, it got wet and then was covered over, allowing the growth of mold spores.
enterprise.southofboston.com /articles/2004/04/22/news/news/news07.txt   (565 words)

  
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Manuscripts Department Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill #4025 GEORGE WASHINGTON SARGENT PAPERS Inventory Abstract: George Washington Sargent, son of Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820) and Mary McIntosh Williams Sargent, was born in Mississippi, where his father was the first territorial governor.
There are biographical sketches of both Winthrop and George Sargent in Dictionary of American Biography, XVI: 368-370, where it is noted that George Washington Sargent "was brutally murdered in 1864" at Natchez, Miss.
Letters from George Washington Sargent at Natchez, Miss., chiefly about financial/legal matters related to the settlement of his mother's estate and the sale of her property in Mississippi and Louisiana.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/s/Sargent,George_Washington   (1033 words)

  
 John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) | Special Topics Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
His grandfather, Winthrop Sargent IV, descended from one of the oldest colonial families, had failed in the merchant-shipping business in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and had moved his family to Philadelphia.
The Sargents' stay in Europe was meant to be temporary, but they became expatriates, passing winters in Florence, Rome, or Nice and summers in the Alps or other cooler regions.
Sargent engineered his career so astutely that by 1907, when he pledged not to accept any more portrait commissions, he had established a solid reputation as a watercolorist.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/sarg/hd_sarg.htm   (1202 words)

  
 26318-1-II - State of Washington, Respondent v. David J. Rogers, Appellant
Sargent noticed that the smell and effects of the hazardous chemicals, which he had detected at the road, became stronger as he walked up the driveway.
Sargent did a quick walk around the exterior of the buildings to check for any persons that may have become overcome or affected by the fumes.
Sargent's Search Because of our disposition of the standing issue, we need not reach Rogers' challenge to the trial court's conclusion that the emergency exception to the warrant requirement justified the deputies' entry onto the property.
www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/slip/appellate/263181MAJ.htm   (2925 words)

  
 Winthrop Sargent
Winthrop Sargent was the first Secretary of the Northwest Territory.
In 1798, Winthrop Sargent resigned as secretary of the Northwest Territory to accept an appointment as the first governor of the Mississippi Territory.
Record of all official actions and communications of the territorial government, as kept by secretaries Winthrop Sargent from July 9, 1788 to May 31, 1798; by William Henry Harrison from June 28, 1798 to October 1, 1799 and by Charles Willing Byrd from December 31, 1799 to January 15, 1803.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=331   (352 words)

  
 Francis Vigo History
Winthrop Sargent appoints Francis Vigo a Major (with Henry Vanderburg) for the County of Knox and orders him to command the Militia of Post Vincent and in its vicinity "and is to be obeyed and respected accordingly".
Winthrop Sargent publishes notice that all person who have exhibited papers on land claims are to call and receive their papers "at Major Vigo's between the Hours of twelve and two this Morning or from Four to Six in the Eveg."
Sargent appoints Francis Vigo Lieut Colonel of the Militia for the County of Knox.
web.indstate.edu /community/vchs/history/franvigo2.htm   (2655 words)

  
 Boston's Arnold Arboretum--Reading 1
Among Charles Sargent's well-known relatives was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, the painter John Singer Sargent, and his father's cousin Henry Winthrop Sargent.
Sargent, along with Olmsted in his new position as park planner, joined forces in a campaign to secure funding for the arboretum by including it in the plans for Boston's park system.
The long negotiations did prove beneficial in one respect; Sargent had time not only to educate the public as to what an arboretum was, but to win their support.
www.cr.nps.gov /NR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/56arnold/56facts1.htm   (774 words)

  
 Papers of George Washington
II, Winthrop Sargent's Journal, provides the best surviving account of the proceedings of the meeting and of the role that GW played.
Printed here as appendixes to Sargent's journal are letters directed to GW as presiding officer dated and received during the meeting itself and letters that went out during the meeting under GW's name as president of the society.
A committee of five then undertook a second revision of the Institution, and, after further revision, its report was adopted as embodying the new Institution of the society.
gwpapers.virginia.edu /documents/confederation/cincinnati.html   (860 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Judith Sargent Murray
Judith Sargent Murray began her writing career in 1784 when she published the essay “Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms”.
Judith Sargent Murray died on June 9, 1820 in Natchez, Mississippi, where she had moved to be near her daughter.
Today Sargent Murray is credited with being an early American feminist writer, a chronicler of early American history in general and with American women's history specifically, and an example of an enlightened thinker.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3269   (356 words)

  
 ohiohistory.org / Transcription of the Executive Journal of the Northwest Territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
In it are recorded all of the official acts and communiques of the governor, Arthur St. Clair, and the secretary, Winthrop Sargent.
Of these, Winthrop Sargent kept, by far, the most nearly full and accurate account of the happenings in the territory.
There is little doubt, also, that Sargent wielded more authority than his successors, and, one may say with some assurance, that much of the success of the government of the territory was because of Sargent's continuing interest in and promotion of that government.
www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/northwest/exjournal   (301 words)

  
 Introduction
For Judith Sargent Murray to gather her published and unpublished magazine pieces into a book was daring, especially for a woman.
Judith Sargent Murray thus presents us with the fascinating spectacle of a woman at once very much of her time and very much ahead of it.
Winthrop, a wealthy ship owner and merchant, pursued liberal, broadranging political, religious, and cultural interests; this active engagement would have an enduring effect on his daughter.
www.english.uiuc.edu /-people-/emeritus/baym/essays/gleaner.htm   (5821 words)

  
 people
Mary's four children, and the two sons she had with Winthrop, were (with one exception) all sent north to Boston for "Aunt Murray" (Judith) to oversee their education.
Mary and Winthrop had two children, George Washington Sargent and William Fitz Winthrop Sargent, who were also sent North as boys.
Epes Sargent's wife was, according to Judith and the Sargent family genealogy, an active participant in her husband's business affairs.
www.hurdsmith.com /judith/people.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The White Blackbird : A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter: Books: Honor Moore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Sargent's manic-depressive illness and alcoholism led her to undergo electroshock therapy and repeated stays in sanatoriums.
Unrecognized today, Margarett Sargent McKean (1892-1978)?fourth cousin to the American Impressionist painter John Singer Sargent?was well known in avant-garde circles of the 1920s as an emancipated modernist artist and collector from a prosperous upper-class Boston family.
For two decades, as she devoted herself to sculpture and then to painting, she remained in a tenuous marriage, engaged in various sexual exploits, managed a privileged household, raised four children, and mounted nine one-woman art shows.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670805637?v=glance   (1013 words)

  
 sargent3.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Solomon Sargent was born in Gloucester Jan 12, 1706/07.
She was born in Gloucester around 1704 and was baptized there August 8, 1708.
David Sargent was born Nov 11, 1739, in Annisquam, MA.
members.aol.com /randsherm/family/sargent3.html   (133 words)

  
 FOURTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Jane D Chewning (Chowning) was born on 2 Aug 1809 in Louisa County, VA. She immigrated in 1817 to Barren County, KY. She immigrated in 1824 to St Clair County, IL.
Sargent was born between 1835 and 1840 in St Clair County, IL.
A female Sargent fell to her death in front of a farm thresching machine while driving the team.
members.aol.com /Heinzmann/hazelsar/d495.htm   (491 words)

  
 John Singer Sargent on the North Shore
Although John Singer Sargent was born in Florence and spent much of his life abroad, he appears to have taken a keen interest in the 1918 efforts of his cousins Charles Sprague Sargent and Winthrop Sargent to transform "an interesting and historic old house in Gloucester, Massachusetts," into a museum.
On one of his visits to Gloucester, Sargent gave the museum his father's medical account book from 1852; he also gave several rolls of French wallpaper which was put on the walls of the museum's dining room.
A palette dating from Sargent's work on murals at the Boston Public Library is also part of the collection, as is an array of archival materials including photographs and documents.
www.sargenthouse.org /sargent.html   (678 words)

  
 Re: winthrop sargent--govenor of mississippi
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genforum.genealogy.com /sargent/messages/1394.html   (95 words)

  
 Daily Blague: Orhandelo
Winthrop Sargent, who wrote about music in The New Yorker when I was young, made two observations that I recall with complete approbation.
On a more general plane, Sargent opined that the music of J S Bach was about the oldest that modern concertgoers could hear with complete comfort.
(Although Telemann and Vivaldi were born slightly earlier, and their music remains equally accessible, Sargent's rule is well-stated.) You can test this for yourself by listening to a few of the Concerti Grossi, Op.
www.portifex.com /DailyBlague/archives/2005/04/orhandel.html   (1172 words)

  
 introduction.htm
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) is considered America's first public champion of female equality, education, and economic independence.
Like her father, Winthrop Sargent, Judith Sargent Murray from a very young age embraced the Universalist interpretion of scripture espoused by England's James Relly.
In 1780, the first Universalist meeting house in America was built and dedicated in Gloucester, and John Murray became known as the "Father of American Universalism." In 1788, Judith and John Murray were married (after the death of her first husband, John Stevens Jr.).
www.hurdsmith.com /judith/introduction.htm   (581 words)

  
 Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) Reclaiming Eve: Women's History 2000 presentation by Sunshine for Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Her father, Captain Winthrop Sargent, was a shipowner and merchant, her mother was from a prominent family.
Judith Sargent Stevens was very religious, but none the less a staunch defender of individual religious liberty and separation of church and state.
Judith Sargent Stevens married Murray in 1788 for love, admiration, and "ardour" He supported her literary ambitions, she supported his efforts to establish the new faith in America.
www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2000/murray2.html   (1704 words)

  
 ARC :: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) :: Page 1 of 43
Sargent was born in Florence, Italy in 1856 to American ex-patriots.
In London, Sargent quickly re-established his career as a portraitist, and through the patronage of several key London elites, he was once again able to secure the trust of his aristocratic sitters.
While preparing for a trip to Boston from his London residence, Sargent died quietly in his sleep of a heart attack on April 25, 1925 at the age of sixty-nine.
www.artrenewal.org /asp/database/art.asp?aid=187   (743 words)

  
 Southwest Territory Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
In 1798, Winthrop Sargent, a Federalist with previous experience as an administrator and interim governor of the Northwest Territory, was appointed the first governor of the Territory of Mississippi.
Sargent's duties included the daunting task of organizing the structures of military and political authority, virtually from the ground up.
An assemblage of miscellaneous items relating to the territorial and early statehood period in the old Southwest, the Southwest Territory Collection documents the process of establishing civil and military authority in the present states of Mississippi and Tennessee, including the organization of the militia, institution building, and the construction of networks of power.
www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/S/SoWest.html   (544 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Sargent
Sargent, Aaron Augustus (1827-1887) — also known as "The Senator for the Southern Pacific Railroad" — of Nevada City,
Sargent, Francis Williams (1915-1998) — also known as Francis W. Sargent — of Massachusetts.
Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y. Sargent, Winthrop (1753-1820) — of Ohio.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/sargent.html   (640 words)

  
 Major David Zeigler Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
[Winthrop Sargent, Secretary of the North West Territory, also acted, on occasion, as Governor or Executive in St. Clair's absence.
Sargent's assistance in obtaining that amount will be "great acknowledge".
Deed executed on "the foregoing lands" by directors of Ohio Company to Winthrop Sargent in trust for Major Zeigler.
www.dayton.lib.oh.us /daytoncollection/davidzeigler.html   (7554 words)

  
 THE FORMULATION OF THE CLASSICAL STYLE
Now that filmmakers were regularly dealing with more than one shot per scene, they formulated guidelines specifying the placement of the establishing shot, cut-in, and re-establishing shot.
Sargent commented in 1914 on the increasing use of close-ups: 'Lately we saw a subject in which a setting room was used.
In the four years between Sargent's statement and this review, the conception of cutting had changed considerably.
www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~tfm320/continuity2.htm   (9408 words)

  
 The History of An Expedition Against Fort Duquesne, in 1755
Or was it caused by an arrogant, overbearing, and stubborn General Braddock who refused to listen to practical advise from lowly woodsmen and Indians.
But not only is this book, by far and away the most factual account, Sargent includes many additional sources of facts about the Braddock campaign that are not found in any other book.
Sargent's memoirs begins on the night of April 30, 1748, with what was boldly proclaimed to a definitive and lasting pence between France and England with the signing of the treaty of Aix-laChapelle.
www.lordnelsons.com /bookstore/36.htm   (491 words)

  
 Olive Tree Genealogy Blog: December 2004
"Winthrop Sargent, a lad of twelve years crawled out to the end of the bowsprit, and as the vessal was going down, grasped a splitting table which floated by, and by his
The story goes on to add "On the return trip of the steamer, young Sargent was brought home,and at two o'clock in the morning,was landed at Eastern point, and lad though he was, commenced his lonely journey of walking to town.
Sargent at first thought it must be the ghost of the lad, as he had given him up as drowned, but young Winthrop had no idea of being taken for a ghost, and soon gave evidence that he was alive and well, which caused great rejoicing in the family.
olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_olivetreegenealogy_archive.html   (1561 words)

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