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Winthrop Sargent VII portrait
No full textPortrait of Winthrop Sargent VII (August 18. 1853-March 29, 1932) of Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was a descendant of Winthrop Sargent II (1753-1820), who served in the Revolutionary War and as the first secretary of the Northwest Territory under Governor Arthur St. Clair. Winthrop Sargent VII wrote a family history of the Sargents titled "Early Sargents of New England" in 1922. The family was also related to John Singer Sargent, a notable American painter
Winthrop Sargent portrait photograph
No full textPortrait of Winthrop Sargent by Gilbert Stuart.
Winthrop Sargent (May 1, 1753 – June 3, 1820) was a United States politician, soldier and writer. He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1771. With the outbreak of the American Revolution, he joined the Continental Army and attained the rank of major by the war's end. In 1786, Sargent helped survey the Seven Ranges of townships in what is now eastern Ohio. Using the knowledge that he had attained while surveying parts of the Ohio Country, he helped organize the Ohio Company and Associates. He also was one of the principal shareholders of the Scioto Company. He became secretary of the Ohio Company in 1787 and assisted Manasseh Cutler in securing land from the Confederation Congress.
That same year, the Congress appointed Sargent as the secretary of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio. He accompanied some of the first Ohio Company settlers to Marietta in 1788. During the late 1780s and early 1790s, Sargent played a major role in the governance of the Northwest Territory. Governor Arthur St. Clair was commonly away from his position, and Sargent served as de facto governor in his absence. He also served under St. Clair in his expedition against the American Indians living in western Ohio in 1791. At St. Clair's Defeat on November 4, 1791, Sargent was twice wounded but survived.
In 1798, Winthrop Sargent resigned as secretary of the Northwest Territory to accept an appointment as the first governor of the Mississippi Territory. Sargent was a devoted member of the Federalist Party. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, became President of the United States. Jefferson removed Sargent from the governor's seat due to their differing political views. Sargent then retired from public life. He died in 1820 in New Orleans or aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi Rivers at Natchez, according to varying accounts
Winthrop Sargent, Philadelphia
No full textSargent relates a variety of military news items, including the British adding garrisons in the Northwest Territory and the appearance of privateers from Bermuda near Philadelphia.Document signed by Sargent
Winthrop Sargent, Cincinnati
No full textSargent asks that the letter's recipient extend him credit and honor a draft written for purchase of land
Lena K. Sargent Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information, a typed introductory letter from the Maine State Library in receipt of a book gift, a typed letter of reply on Portland Maine School of Commerce stationery from Sargent preparing to send the manuscript of her new Bruce book, and a typed copy of Sargent\u27s poem Orono, not published at the time
Jill Crossen Sargent : Information Series
No full textSargent provides a brief introduction to her plastic and metal constructions
Ruth Sexton Sargent Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information, typed correspondence between Sargent and the Maine State Library including her appreciation for the correction of a research error, typed biographies of Sargent and Jones describing collaboration between two writers who did not meet until their book was ready for publication, a newspaper clipping with a photographic image of Sargent and Jones working on their book, and a book jacket with artwork, a synopsis, and biographies of the authors
Winthrop Sargent, Cincinnati, to Colonel Samuel Hodgdon, Philadelphia
No full textSargent writes of issues concerning himself, including requests for Hodgdon to send sundry items and to place a subscription to a weekly paper free of advertisement for him.Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824Document initialed by Sargent. Reportedly addressed to Hodgdon
Matlab programs by Hansen and T. Sargent
No full textA set of programs from the book 'Recursive Linear Models of Dynamic Economies' by Hansen and T. Sargent
Israel 1983: A bout of unpleasant monetarist arithmetic?
No full textThis paper claims that anticipations of a promised massive future government bailout of owners of fallen bank shares suddenly caused a big jump in inflation in Israel in October 1983. That month, the government promised that four or five years later it would compensate innocent people for the fall in the value of their bank shares. We reason that the public believed that promise, that it understood that the public debt must jump, and further that the public anticipated that the government would finance that debt via a future monetary expansion. That sparked an immediate jump in inflation via the unpleasant monetarist arithmetic of Sargent and Wallace (1981). (Copyright: Elsevier)Inflation; Rational expectations; Inflation tax model; Unpleasant monetarist arithmetic
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