Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which Have Occurred in the Western States and Territories, from the Discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-sixW. S. Haven, book and job printer, 1857 - 1016 páginas |
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Página 560
... Kickapoo town on the opposite bank , they , in a few minutes , by a well - directed fire from their rifles , destroyed all the savages with which five canoes were crowded . To my great mortification , the Wabash was many feet beyond ...
... Kickapoo town on the opposite bank , they , in a few minutes , by a well - directed fire from their rifles , destroyed all the savages with which five canoes were crowded . To my great mortification , the Wabash was many feet beyond ...
Página 565
... I have the honor to enclose you , ) I commenced my march for the Kickapoo town in the prairie . I felt my prisoners a vast incumbrance , but I was not in force to justify a detachment , having barely five hundred and twenty 1791. ...
... I have the honor to enclose you , ) I commenced my march for the Kickapoo town in the prairie . I felt my prisoners a vast incumbrance , but I was not in force to justify a detachment , having barely five hundred and twenty 1791. ...
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... Kickapoo towns , I marched by the road leading to Tippecanoe , in the hope of finding some diverging trace which might favor my design . I encamped that evening about six miles from Kenapa- comaqua , the Indian name for the town I had ...
... Kickapoo towns , I marched by the road leading to Tippecanoe , in the hope of finding some diverging trace which might favor my design . I encamped that evening about six miles from Kenapa- comaqua , the Indian name for the town I had ...
Página 567
... Kickapoo town , in the prairie , by the road which leads from Quiatenon to that place . In the course of the day , I had discovered some murmurings and discontent among the men , which I found on inquiry to proceed from their reluctance ...
... Kickapoo town , in the prairie , by the road which leads from Quiatenon to that place . In the course of the day , I had discovered some murmurings and discontent among the men , which I found on inquiry to proceed from their reluctance ...
Página 568
... Kickapoo village , and cut down at least four hundred and thirty acres of corn , chiefly in the milk . The Ouiatenons , left without houses , home or provision , must cease to war , and will find active employ to subsist their squaws ...
... Kickapoo village , and cut down at least four hundred and thirty acres of corn , chiefly in the milk . The Ouiatenons , left without houses , home or provision , must cease to war , and will find active employ to subsist their squaws ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 471 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Página 416 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Página 472 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 747 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...
Página 471 - There shall be formed in the said territory not less than three nor more than five States ; and the boundaries of the States, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession and consent to the same...
Página 407 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Página 471 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.
Página 466 - ... deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin, in equal degree; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intestate shall have in equal parts among them their deceased parents.
Página 413 - It is agreed, that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Página 408 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...