Further, Seward's proclamation questioned the validity of those reversals.

Although Wyatt was executed, Freeman, whose conviction was reversed on Seward's successful appeal to the New York Supreme Court, died in his cell of tuberculosis.

Seward and his family owned a home in Auburn, New York which is now a museum ; it was built in 1816 by Seward's father-in-law, Judge Elijah Miller.

Seward's birthplace in Florida, New York was bought by the village in 2010, with the purpose of refurbishing it.

In 1860 he was chairman of the New York delegation to the Republican National Convention where he placed Senator William H. Seward's name in nomination for President.

Seward, who is best remembered for purchasing Alaska (" Seward's Folly ") from Russia, was the first New Yorker to have a monument erected in his honor.

Before Payne loomed the Old Clubhouse, Seward's home, where Key had once been killed.

He had no idea where Seward's room would be.

" Similarly, English poet Anna Seward had a devoted friendship to Honora Sneyd, who was the subject of many of Seward's sonnets and poems.

More recent scholarship suggests that Taylor was not under Seward's influence and would have accepted the Compromise if he had not died.

Weed did this largely as a favor to his friend Erastus Corning, though Corning was a Democrat and had not supported Seward's gubernatorial bid or Taylor's quest for the presidency.

After conducting the tests themselves ( tests which Seward rigged ) they confirmed Seward's story.

Reversing it, he smashed the butt down on Frederick Seward's head, over and over again.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

Critics sneered at " Seward's Folly " and " Seward's Icebox " and " Icebergia.

The Senate likewise rejected Seward's arrangement with Britain to arbitrate the Alabama Claims.

When Sneyd married despite Seward's protest, Seward's poems became angry.

* Earliest day on which Seward's Day can fall, while March 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Monday in March.

The exterior of the Camelot Castle Hotel was used to portray Dr. Seward's asylum in the 1979 film, Dracula starring Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence.

Seward's wife Frances Adeline Seward.

In Secretary Seward's bedroom was his daughter, Fanny Seward.

Seward's support for Andrew Johnson extended to behind the scenes scheming for the President's acquittal during his 1868 Impeachment trial.

Historian David O. Stewart sums up Seward's involvement this way:

Seward's most famous achievement as Secretary of State was his successful acquisition of Alaska from Russia.

The purchase was variously mocked by the public as Seward's Folly, " Seward's Icebox ," and Andrew Johnson's " polar bear garden.

" Alaska celebrates the purchase on Seward's Day, the last Monday of March.

* Both the proclamation and the letters patent of 1917 remain in force today, excepting a few amendments and creations noted.

The proclamation noted that on six workdays, 5, 300 volunteers have contributed between 30, 000-35, 000 hours through yard work, painting, construction, and more to benefit 40 schools, two post-secondary schools, 44 churches, 55 family homes, 14 parks, nine city / government buildings, 16 hospitals, 47 ministries, and ten Memphis City School football fields.

The proclamation also noted that Bellevue Loves Memphis provided every city fire station with a copy of the movie “ Fireproof ,” assisted with the City of Memphis clean up, and assisted with ten block parties.

The proclamation, which established an appointed colonial government, was the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774, when the British parliament passed the Quebec Act, which expanded the province's boundaries to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, which was one of the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence.

The Village of Waterville, by proclamation of the Ohio Secretary of State, became a City on April 29, 2011!

By proclamation of acting governor and territorial secretary Winthrop Sargent, the " first " Wayne County was established August 15, 1796, from Knox and Hamilton counties, and included most of the area that later became the Michigan Territory, as well as portions of what are now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and wisconsin.

The treaty established a Line of Property which extended the earlier proclamation line of the Alleghenies ( the divide between the Ohio and coastal watersheds ), much farther to the west.

New schools were rising, but with this went a harsh proclamation: any academic degree earned during Batista's regime was invalid.

His famous Sermon on the Mount is considered by some Christian scholars to be the proclamation of the New Covenant ethics, in contrast to the Mosaic Covenant of Moses from Mount Sinai.

Early in 1779, Governor Clinton issued a proclamation stating that the state of New York would honor the Wentworth grants, if the settlers would recognize New York's political jurisdiction over the Vermont territory.

Probably the most famous Irishman ever to reside in Mexico is the Wexfordman William Lamport, better known to most Mexicans as Guillen de Lampart, precursor of the Independence movement and author of the first proclamation of independence in the New World.

* May 18 – Civil War gold hoax: The New York World and the New York Journal of Commerce publish a fake proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln has issued a draft of 400, 000 more soldiers.

Confederation was accomplished when the Queen gave royal assent to the British North America Act ( BNA Act ) on March 29, 1867, followed by a royal proclamation stating: " We do ordain, declare, and command that on and after the First day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-seven, the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, shall form and be One Dominion, under the name of Canada.

On May 20, 2010, George Clinton received a proclamation from Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs of Plainfield, New Jersey, the city in which he was raised, at a fundraiser for the Barack Obama Green Charter High School, which is focused creating leaders in sustainability for the 21st Century.

This argument was supported by the claim that New Zealand had become a colony when annexed by proclamation in January 1840, before the treaty was signed.

The proclamation was published four months after the signing of the Treaty, in the New Zealand Advertiser and Bay Of Islands Gazette issue of 19 June 1840, the proclamation " asserts on the grounds of Discovery, the Sovereign Rights of Her Majesty over the Southern Islands of New Zealand, commonly called ' The Middle Island ' ( South Island ) and ' Stewart ’ s Island ' ( Stewart Island / Rakiura ); and the Island, commonly called ' The Northern Island ', having been ceded in Sovereignty to Her Majesty.

Then New Mexico Governor Garrey Carruthers and Texas Governor Bill Clements joined in the special proclamation.

United States Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico entered into the Congressional Record of the United States a request that Congress and the President join in the proclamation.

At the same time that this treaty was received in Washington, Pierce learned that New Mexico Territorial Governor William C. Lane had issued a proclamation claiming the Mesilla Valley as part of New Mexico, leading to protests from Mexico.

Throngs before the Tokyo Imperial Palace | Imperial Palace in Japan awaiting the appearance of the Crown Prince Hirohito for the recent proclamation of his official recognition as the heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne | Japanese Imperial Throne – New York Times, 1916.

Throngs before the Tokyo Imperial Palace | Imperial Palace in Japan awaiting the appearance of the Crown Prince Hirohito for the recent proclamation of his official recognition as the heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne | Japanese Imperial Throne -- New York Times, 1916.

On April 25, 1997 New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani issued a proclamation, naming April 25 " Harry Harrison Day " in honor of the second " Mayor.

: This church accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life.

On 10 August leading pro-government chiefs issued a proclamation to all tribes of New Zealand calling on the government to halt surveys of disputed lands and on Māori to end their action in claiming those lands.

The flag of New Brunswick, Canada, is a banner modelled after the province's coat of arms and was adopted by proclamation on February 24, 1965.