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 FiftyJ.R. Albach, 1850 - 808 Seiten |
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... force . He rebuilds the Fort and calls it Fort Dunmore . Cherokees attack a boat on the Ohio . Connolly writes to the settlers to beware of the Indians . Cresap , having Connolly's letter , attacks Indians . Greathouse murders several ...
... force . He rebuilds the Fort and calls it Fort Dunmore . Cherokees attack a boat on the Ohio . Connolly writes to the settlers to beware of the Indians . Cresap , having Connolly's letter , attacks Indians . Greathouse murders several ...
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... force , some hundred and fifty people ; and , by prompt and determined action , much may be done between this last of March and next autumn . In the first place , the river falling into the Bay of St. Louis is examined , and a new fort ...
... force , some hundred and fifty people ; and , by prompt and determined action , much may be done between this last of March and next autumn . In the first place , the river falling into the Bay of St. Louis is examined , and a new fort ...
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... force enough at hand to make her repent it . All which had its effect ; the Britons about ship and stood to sea again , growling as they went , and saying , that they had discovered that country fifty years before , that they had a ...
... force enough at hand to make her repent it . All which had its effect ; the Britons about ship and stood to sea again , growling as they went , and saying , that they had discovered that country fifty years before , that they had a ...
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... force , position , or purposes of the French , Robert Dinwiddie , then Governor of Virginia , deter- mined to send to them another messenger , and selected a young surveyor , who , at the age of nineteen , had received the rank of major ...
... force , position , or purposes of the French , Robert Dinwiddie , then Governor of Virginia , deter- mined to send to them another messenger , and selected a young surveyor , who , at the age of nineteen , had received the rank of major ...
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... force would be turned upon them ; and that , if they and the English were equally strong , they would divide the land between them , and cut off all the natives . These threats , and the mingled kindness and severity of the French , had ...
... force would be turned upon them ; and that , if they and the English were equally strong , they would divide the land between them , and cut off all the natives . These threats , and the mingled kindness and severity of the French , had ...
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Seite 279 - 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...
Seite 508 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Seite 522 - The legislatures of those Districts, or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the Soil by the United States in Congress Assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such Soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Seite 314 - ... thereof duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts, and registers shall be appointed for that purpose ; and personal property may be transferred by delivery, saving, however, to the French and Canadian inhabitants, and other settlers of the Kaskaskies, Saint Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have heretofore professed themselves citizens of Virginia, their laws and customs now in force among them, relative to the descent and conveyance of property.
Seite 317 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Seite 774 - It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second.
Seite 316 - ... inhabitants, of full age, in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the governor, they shall receive authority, with time and place, to elect representatives from their counties or townships, to represent them in the general assembly; provided that for every five hundred free...
Seite 770 - 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.
Seite 770 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Seite 113 - America, it is agreed that for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britaninc Majesty and those of his most Christian Majesty in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...