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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... town plat surveyed . Col. Hamtramck died at Detroit . D. Goforth discovered mammoth skeleton at Big Bone Lick , Ky . 1804. Fort Dearborn built at Chicago . Territory of Orleans and district of Upper Louisiana organized . Lewis and Clark ...
... town plat surveyed . Col. Hamtramck died at Detroit . D. Goforth discovered mammoth skeleton at Big Bone Lick , Ky . 1804. Fort Dearborn built at Chicago . Territory of Orleans and district of Upper Louisiana organized . Lewis and Clark ...
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... town , Mauvile , now Mobile . Here many thousand Indians assembled to rescue their chief , and expel the invaders . The Spaniards were suddenly attacked with great fury ; the battle lasted all day ; the town was burned , eighty - three ...
... town , Mauvile , now Mobile . Here many thousand Indians assembled to rescue their chief , and expel the invaders . The Spaniards were suddenly attacked with great fury ; the battle lasted all day ; the town was burned , eighty - three ...
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... town , ( where we intended to quit the path and steer across the country for Shanapin's town , ) we fell in with a party of French Indians , who had laid in wait for us . One of them fired at Mr. Gist , or me , not fifteeen steps off ...
... town , ( where we intended to quit the path and steer across the country for Shanapin's town , ) we fell in with a party of French Indians , who had laid in wait for us . One of them fired at Mr. Gist , or me , not fifteeen steps off ...
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... town , either to perceive the situation of it , the number of the enemy , or what way it might be most advan- tageously attacked . " We continued our march , intending to get as near the town as possible that night , so as to be able to ...
... town , either to perceive the situation of it , the number of the enemy , or what way it might be most advan- tageously attacked . " We continued our march , intending to get as near the town as possible that night , so as to be able to ...
Página 141
... town , a little before the setting of the moon , to which place , rather than by pilots , we were guided by the beating of the drum , and the whoop- ing of the warriors , at their dances . " It then became us to make the best use of the ...
... town , a little before the setting of the moon , to which place , rather than by pilots , we were guided by the beating of the drum , and the whoop- ing of the warriors , at their dances . " It then became us to make the best use of the ...
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acres Allegheny Allegheny river American appointed army arrived attack bank boat British Canada Captain chiefs claims Clair Clark Colonel colony command commenced commissioners Congress council creek Delawares Detroit enemy English expedition favor fire force Fort Jefferson Fort Pitt Fort Washington Fort Wayne France French frontier garrison Governor horses hostile hundred Illinois Indians inhabitants Iroquois Kaskaskia Kentucky Kickapoos killed Lake Erie lands legislature Logstown Louis Louisiana Maumee ment Miami miles militia Mississippi Missouri mouth Muskingum north-west North-Western Territory officers Ohio Ohio river party passed peace Pennsylvania persons Pittsburgh possession Pottawattamies present prisoners provisions purchase received returned river Salle Sandusky savages sent settled settlements settlers Shawanese Simon Girty Six Nations soon Spain Spanish taken territory thence thousand tion town trade treaty tribes troops United village Vincennes Virginia Wabash warriors Washington Wayne West western whole Wilkinson Wyandots
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...