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* Charles W. Hackensmith, Biography of Joseph Neef, Educator in the Ohio Valley, 1809 – 1854, Carlton Press, New York, 1973.
His autobiographical tracts are Observations of some Specialities of Divine Providence in the Life of Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, Written with his own hand, and his Hard Measure, reprinted in Christopher Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography.
* Biografie von Heinrich Heine ( Biography of Heinrich Heine, 1934 ) Subtitled The Artist in Revolt it was first published in English in 1956 in a revised version translated by Joseph Witriol
* Abler, Thomas S. " Joseph Brant " in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography.
* Hiller, James K. " Smallwood, Joseph Roberts ( 1900 – 1991 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition
* Joseph Ritson: A Critical Biography, by Henry A. Burd, Illinois, 1916, ( BiblioBazaar, 2008 ) ISBN 0-554-58449-2
* Burd, Henry A., Joseph Ritson: A Critical Biography, Illinois, 1916, ( BiblioBazaar, 2008 ) ISBN 0-554-58449-2
He and Sir John Child, president of Surat and governor of Bombay ( no relation according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, arms: " Vert, 2 bars engrailled between 3 leopards ' faces or ") are sometimes credited with the change from unarmed to armed traffic, but the actual renunciation of the Roe doctrine of unarmed traffic by the Company was resolved upon in January 1686, under Governor Sir Joseph Ash, when Child was temporarily out of office.
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Andrew Ellicott continued the survey with his brothers Benjamin and Joseph Ellicott and other assistants through 1791 and 1792.
The town derives its name from David E. Evans, an agent of the Holland Land Company and nephew of land agent Joseph Ellicott.
Joseph Ellicott, the agent of the Holland Land Company, once owned land that encompassed part of the village.
* Shelby Center – Joseph Ellicott, an agent of the Holland Land Company, purchased land near here in order to use a waterfall on Oak Orchard River.
The town was separated from the Town of Hamburg in 1850 and was first named the town of Ellicott, after Joseph Ellicott, an agent of the Holland Land Company.
The regional office of the Holland Land Company, the owner of all this territory, was located in the town, in the Village of Batavia, founded by Joseph Ellicott, the company's land agent.
The land was then surveyed under the supervision of Joseph Ellicott, a monumental task of the biggest land survey ever attempted to that time.
Joseph Ellicott lived in Batavia for many years although he thought Buffalo would grow to be larger.
To build as Mills did on what is now the National Mall, he had to contend with the planning strictures of Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, as well as Andrew and Joseph Ellicott.
In 1798, Joseph Ellicott was hired and he, along with his brother Benjamin and 130 men surveyed the purchase for the next three years at a total cost of $ 70, 921. 69½.
* Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company bibliography of books and manuscripts in the library collection at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.
A sales office for the Holland Land Company was opened in 1801 by surveyor and agent Joseph Ellicott in Batavia where land was sold until 1846 when the company was dissolved.
Joseph Ellicott ( November 1, 1760 Bucks County, Pennsylvania – August 19, 1826 New York City ) was an American surveyor, city planner, land office agent, lawyer and politician of the Quaker faith.
Joseph Ellicott was subsequently sent to Georgia to survey the boundary line, established by treaty with the Creek tribe.
* " The Holland Land Company in Western New York ", by Robert W. Silsby, Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Adventures in Western New York History, volume VIII, 1961, ( provides account of Joseph Ellicott, downloadable from http :// bechsed. nylearns. org /, click on Adventures in WNY History )
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