, Blennerhassett, Harman

(1764 or 1765-1831), was born in England. Becoming imbued with republican ideas, he disposed of his estates and came to the United States in 1797 and purchased an island in the Ohio River, upon which he erected a fine mansion. He became interested in the schemes of Aaron Burr, to which he contributed large sums and for complicity in which he was arrested on a charge of treason,; but discharged. The proceedings ruined him. “Ble ing of the Bay,’’ the first seaworthy ve el built in the United States. She was built at Mistick, Ma ., for John Winthrop, and was launched July 4, 1631. She was used for a number of years in trade with the Connecticut colonies and the Dutch settlers of New York, Bli , Cornel i us N., born in 1833, cotton manufacturer. Secretary of the Interior under McKinley from 1897 to 1899.