Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-western TerritoryD. Appleton & Company, 1847 - 501 Seiten |
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... gives General St. Clair the credit of proposing the night march on Princeton , as the most advisable expedient to save the army from impending ruin . It may also be found in a more recent attempt to award to General Mercer the honor and ...
... gives General St. Clair the credit of proposing the night march on Princeton , as the most advisable expedient to save the army from impending ruin . It may also be found in a more recent attempt to award to General Mercer the honor and ...
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... give character to the man- ners and customs of the people . Such a school , it must be admitted , was by no means calculated to make the most favorable impression on the morals and sobriety of any community , as was abundantly proved by ...
... give character to the man- ners and customs of the people . Such a school , it must be admitted , was by no means calculated to make the most favorable impression on the morals and sobriety of any community , as was abundantly proved by ...
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... give tone to public sentiment . * As a natural consequence , the citizens indulged in the same practices , and formed the same habits . As a proof of this it may be stated , that when Mr. Burnet came to the bar , there were nine ...
... give tone to public sentiment . * As a natural consequence , the citizens indulged in the same practices , and formed the same habits . As a proof of this it may be stated , that when Mr. Burnet came to the bar , there were nine ...
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... give the original cost of the plat of Cincinnati . The third party of adventurers to the Miami Purchase , were under the immediate care and direction of Judge Symmes . They left Limestone on the 29th of January , 1789 , and on their ...
... give the original cost of the plat of Cincinnati . The third party of adventurers to the Miami Purchase , were under the immediate care and direction of Judge Symmes . They left Limestone on the 29th of January , 1789 , and on their ...
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... give some uneasiness , unless the object to which they were to be directed was perfectly known ; and that to prevent any such difficulty , he was commanded by the President of the United States to give him the fullest assurances of the ...
... give some uneasiness , unless the object to which they were to be directed was perfectly known ; and that to prevent any such difficulty , he was commanded by the President of the United States to give him the fullest assurances of the ...
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acres adopted American appointed army arrived assembled attack authorised boundary British Captain Chillicothe Chippeways Cincinnati claim Clair College township Colonel command commenced Commissioners Congress consequence Constitution Convention Council Court Delawares Detroit duty Elder brother enemy established fact father fifteen fires formed Fort Washington friends garrison Governor grant ground happy Harmar hundred Indians inhabitants John Cleves Symmes Judge Symmes Kentucky land Legislative Legislature Little Miami river Little Turtle Major ment Miami Purchase Miami river miles military militia mouth Muskingum Muskingum river nations North-western Territory object officers Ohio Ohio river opinion Ordinance Ottawas party passed peace persons Pottawattamies present President proceeded provision purchase purpose received Sandusky sent session settled settlement Shawanees soon Spirit spoke as follows taken Territory tion told town township tract treaty treaty of Greenville tribes troops United villages Wabash Washington Wayne Wyandots younger brothers
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Seite 365 - 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...
Seite 366 - 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...
Seite 222 - I have now informed you of , the boundaries of the Miami nation, where the Great Spirit placed my forefather a long time ago, and charged him not to sell or part with his lands, but to preserve them for his posterity.
Seite 319 - For the prevention of crimes and injuries the laws to be adopted or made shall have force in all parts of the district and for the execution of process criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof, and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require to lay out the parts of the District in which the indian titles shall have been extinguished into counties and townships subject however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature...
Seite 246 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Seite 301 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land...
Seite 270 - I now fervently pray to the Great Spirit, that the peace now established may be permanent, and that it- may hold us together in the bonds of friendship, until time shall be no more. I also pray that the Great Spirit above may enlighten your minds, and open your eyes to your true happiness, that your children may learn to cultivate the earth, and enjoy the fruits of peace and industry.
Seite 436 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Seite 172 - Price, who was directed to keep sufficiently advanced, so as to give timely notice for the troops to form in case of action, it being yet undetermined whether the Indians would decide for peace or war. "After advancing about five miles...
Seite 358 - Government of the Territory, the southern boundary of that lake was laid down as being near the forty-second degree of north latitude, and there was a pencil line passing through the southern bend of the lake to the Canada line, which intersected the strait between the River Raisin and the town of Detroit. That line was manifestly intended by the committee and by Congress to be the northern boundary of this state...