History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, by the Three Great European Powers, Spain, France, and Great Britain, and the Subsequent Occupation, Settlement, and Extension of Civil Government by the United States, Until the Year 1846, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1848 Details the Spanish, French and British discovery, colonization, and history of the central United States to 1846. |
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... Arrival of Immigrants in 1779 . -Scarcity of Provisions . - Depreciation of Paper Currency . - Distress of Emigrants until 1780. - Defenses on the Ohio .- " Fort Nelson . " - Colonel Slaughter . - Landed Interest in Kentucky . - The ...
... Arrival of Immigrants in 1779 . -Scarcity of Provisions . - Depreciation of Paper Currency . - Distress of Emigrants until 1780. - Defenses on the Ohio .- " Fort Nelson . " - Colonel Slaughter . - Landed Interest in Kentucky . - The ...
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... arrive . - Territorial Government organized.- " Washington County " laid off - Arrival of Emigrants . - Campus Martius . - Settlements formed at Belpre and Newberry . - Emigration to Kentucky . - Miami Settlements . - Symmes's Purchase ...
... arrive . - Territorial Government organized.- " Washington County " laid off - Arrival of Emigrants . - Campus Martius . - Settlements formed at Belpre and Newberry . - Emigration to Kentucky . - Miami Settlements . - Symmes's Purchase ...
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... - Original Extent of the Mississippi Territory . - First Governor and Terri- torial Judges . - Authority and Jurisdiction of the same -Arrival of the United States Troops under General Wilkinson . - First Grade of Territorial CONTENTS . xi.
... - Original Extent of the Mississippi Territory . - First Governor and Terri- torial Judges . - Authority and Jurisdiction of the same -Arrival of the United States Troops under General Wilkinson . - First Grade of Territorial CONTENTS . xi.
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... arrive from every quarter , males and females on horseback and on foot . No broad - cloth or beaver adorned their persons . Men were clad in their western dress , shoe - packs , or moccasins , leather breeches , leggins , and hunting ...
... arrive from every quarter , males and females on horseback and on foot . No broad - cloth or beaver adorned their persons . Men were clad in their western dress , shoe - packs , or moccasins , leather breeches , leggins , and hunting ...
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... arrival in port was a general jubilee , where hundreds often met together for diversion and frolick . Their assemblages were often riotous and lawless to extremes , when the civil au- thorities were defied for days together . Had their ...
... arrival in port was a general jubilee , where hundreds often met together for diversion and frolick . Their assemblages were often riotous and lawless to extremes , when the civil au- thorities were defied for days together . Had their ...
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afterward American Pioneer arms army arrived attack authority Boonesborough British Burr Captain ceded Cherokees Chickasâ Choctâs civil Claiborne Colonel colony command commenced comprised Congress Constitution convention court Creek nation Cumberland Cumberland River defense District early east emigrants enemy enterprise erected expedition extended Federal government Florida Fort Pitt Fort Washington frontier garrison Georgia Governor hostile hundred Idem incursions inhabitants invasion Jackson John jurisdiction Kenton Kentucky Kentucky River killed lands Legislature M'Intosh Martin's Louisiana ment Mexico Miami miles military militia Mississippi Territory mouth Natchez North Carolina Northwestern Territory occupied officers Ohio River organized Orleans party peace population portion president retired savages Scioto session settlements Shawanese Simon Girty soon Spanish station stockade Tennessee Tennessee River territorial government Texas thousand tion Tombigby town treaty treaty of Greenville tribes troops United vicinity Virginia warriors Washington western whole Wilkinson William C. C. Claiborne wounded
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Seite 579 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution. And such States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of 36° 30...
Seite 225 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Seite 226 - No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States ; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Seite 226 - 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 226 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property rights and liberty they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress...
Seite 438 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six 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 579 - ... shall also retain all the vacant and unappropriated lands lying within its limits, to be applied to the payment of the debts and liabilities of said Re public of Texas, and the residue of said lands, after discharging said debts and liabilities, to be disposed of as said State may direct; but in no event are said debts and liabilities to become a charge upon the Government of the United States.
Seite 577 - Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the Belgians at the Court of Japan.
Seite 563 - We, therefore, the delegates, with plenary powers, of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and DECLARE, that our political connexion with the Mexican nation has for ever ended, and that the people of Texas, do now constitute a FREE, SOVEREIGN, and INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC...
Seite 562 - Whereas, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and other military chieftains, have, by force of arms, overthrown the federal institutions of Mexico, and dissolved the social compact which existed between Texas and the other members of the Mexican confederacy; now the good people of Texas, availing themselves of their natural rights, SOLEMNLY DECLARE, 1st.