| 词条 | Benjamin Eyre |
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BiographyBenjamin was the brother to Manuel and Jehu Eyre, also both major players in the Revolution.[4] Apocryphally, his family was descended, through his father, from the royal House of Wessex.[4] The Eyre family as a whole played a pivotal role in the war (most notably through their invaluable contributions to the U.S. Navy, which they essentially founded[5][6]) and Washington mentioned them several times in his personal correspondences.[7] ShipbuilderBenjamin Eyre was commissioned by the Continental Congress to build the frigate General Greene, a service for which he was paid 56,561 pounds. [8] Large contracts such as this one during the Revolutionary War era helped the Eyres' shipping company, Eyre and Massey, to become one of the largest in the world and bolstered the political and financial situation of the Eyre family. RevolutionaryAs aide-de-camp to General George Washington,[9] he was so close to the future President that he was once given an expensive punch-bowl by him.[10] The punchbowl was loaned to the American Wing of New York's Metropolitan Museum in 1928 and donated by the surviving heirs in 1973. A large color photo can be seen in the magazine American Heritage, August 1955. The bowl depicted the China international trade and includes one of the first illustrations of the American flag, along with other international standards. The Eyre brothers were major ship builders. LegacyA portrait of him standing alongside Washington can be found at Princeton University.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} References1. ^Ancestors of{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Eyre, Benjamin}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~cooverfamily/member_roll.html|title=Books of Historical Interest - The Iowa Society - Membership Roll, A-H|publisher=}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kipke/sotr/membs_h.htm|title=Sons of the Revolution in Washington D.C. 1920 - Members H|publisher=}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/NJBURLIN/1998-10/0908718604|title=RootsWeb: NJBURLIN-L Burlington "EYRES" surname & associated names info #25|publisher=}} 5. ^http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w3/washington-ii.htm{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 6. ^{{cite book| chapterurl = http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/risch/chpt-5.htm| chapter = Other Quartermaster Support| url = http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/risch/risch-fm.htm| title = Supplying Washington's Army| first = Erna| last = Risch| publisher = United States Army Center of Military History| series = Special Studies Series| year = 1981| location = Washington D.C.| deadurl = yes| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100617002456/http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/risch/risch-fm.htm| archivedate = 2010-06-17| df = }} 7. ^Papers of George Washington {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220194740/http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/index/revolution/elist.html |date=February 20, 2007 }} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8obAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA476&dq=Benjamin%20Eyre&lr=|title=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography|date=1 January 1881|publisher=Historical Society of Pennsylvania.|via=Google Books}} 9. ^{{cite journal|jstor=20084425|title=Memorials of Col. Jehu Eyre (concluded)|first1=Peter D.|last1=Keyser|first2=Wm.|last2=Henry|first3=Jehu|last3=Eyre|first4=Thos.|last4=Wharton|first5=John|last5=Armstrong|date=1 January 1879|publisher=|volume=3|issue=4|pages=412–425}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oldandsold.com/articles16/antique-china-10.shtml|title=Punch Bowls And Punches|publisher=}} 7 : Eyre family|1747 births|1789 deaths|People from Burlington, New Jersey|Continental Army officers from New Jersey|People of colonial New Jersey|American people of English descent |
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