History of West Virginia: In Two PartsHubbard Brothers, 1889 - 744 páginas |
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Adjourned Alleghenies Andrew appointed army Assembly Augusta Barbour Benjamin Berkeley Berkeley county boundary Brooke Brooke county Brown Cabell cabin Captain Charles Clerk Colonel colony commanded commissioners Confederate Constitution Convention county seat court creek Daniel Daniel Lamb Daniel Polsley December delegates Dist District Doddridge Doorkeeper elected Farmer 66 Federal fire George ginia Government Governor Greenbrier Hampshire Harper's Ferry Harrison Henry hundred Indians Jackson Jacob James January Jefferson John Joseph jurisdiction Kanawha Kanawha river Kentucky killed land Lawyer Legislature Lewis March Marion Marshall Maryland Mason Merchant 66 miles Monongalia Monongalia county Monroe Morgan mountains mouth Nathan Goff officers Ohio Ohio river passed Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Virginia Point Pleasant Potomac President Preston Randolph Richmond ridge river Robert Samuel savages seat Senate Sergeant-at-Arms settled settlement Smith territory thence Thomas tion town trustees Valley Virginia 66 vote Waitman West Virginia western Wetzel Wheeling Wheeling creek William Wood
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Página 208 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Página 301 - The subject to be regulated is commerce: and our Constitution being, as was aptly said at the bar, one of enumeration, and not of definition, to ascertain the extent of the power, it becomes necessary to settle the meaning of the word.
Página 203 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Página 617 - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company while living that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
Página 303 - Union, by which it was agreed, " that the use and navigation of the river Ohio, so far as the territory of the proposed, or the territory that shall remain within the limits of this commonwealth, lies thereon, shall be free and common to the citizens of the United States," and which compact was assented to by congress at the time of the admission of the State.
Página 206 - ... or in acquiring any part of, the territory so ceded or relinquished, shall be fully reimbursed by the United States: and that one commissioner shall be appointed by Congress, one by this Commonwealth, and another by those two commissioners, who, or a majority of them, shall be authorized and empowered to adjust and liquidate the account of the necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by this State, which they shall judge to be comprised within the intent and meaning of the act of Congress,...
Página 260 - Declarations, hereafter expressed, all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being, in that Part of America called Virginia, from the Point of Land, called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Northward two hundred Miles, and from the said Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the Southward two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout from Sea to Sea,...
Página 301 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Página 207 - American army, shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become, members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure...
Página 187 - When we went to the fire the Colonel was stripped naked, ordered to sit down by the fire, and then they beat him with sticks and their fists. Presently after I was treated in the same manner. They then tied a rope to the foot of a post about fifteen feet high, bound the Colonel's hands behind his back and fastened the rope to the ligature between his wrists. The rope was long enough for him to sit down or walk round the post once or twice, and return the same way. The Colonel then called to Girty,...