Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York: Embracing Some Account of the Ancient Remains ... and a History of Pioneer Settlement Under the Auspices of the Holland Company; Including Reminiscences of the War of 1812; the Origin, Progress and Completion of the Erie Canal, Etc., Etc., EtcJewett, Thomas & Company, 1849 - 666 Seiten |
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... took contracts previous to January 1st , 1807 ; and of the first five or six , and sometimes more , of those who took contracts in all the townships upon the Purchase that were not broken into previous to that date . These lists have ...
... took contracts previous to January 1st , 1807 ; and of the first five or six , and sometimes more , of those who took contracts in all the townships upon the Purchase that were not broken into previous to that date . These lists have ...
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... took its flight . The vapours o'er the lake that lour , How bright the setting sun display'd , When mid those scenes in childhood's hour , The boyhood of the village stray'd . Or listen'd as our fathers taught To recognize the ' 28 ...
... took its flight . The vapours o'er the lake that lour , How bright the setting sun display'd , When mid those scenes in childhood's hour , The boyhood of the village stray'd . Or listen'd as our fathers taught To recognize the ' 28 ...
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... took away the former name of the incipient chief and assigned him a new one , perhaps , like Napoleon's titles , commemorative of the event which led to its bestowment . Thus , when the celebrated RED - JACKET was elevated by election ...
... took away the former name of the incipient chief and assigned him a new one , perhaps , like Napoleon's titles , commemorative of the event which led to its bestowment . Thus , when the celebrated RED - JACKET was elevated by election ...
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... took a south - west direction , and crossing Murder creek at Akron , it came upon the Buffalo road at Clarence Hollow ; from thence west , nearly on the line of the Buffalo road to Williamsville , cross- ing Ellicott's creek it ...
... took a south - west direction , and crossing Murder creek at Akron , it came upon the Buffalo road at Clarence Hollow ; from thence west , nearly on the line of the Buffalo road to Williamsville , cross- ing Ellicott's creek it ...
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... took no part in the wars which deso- lated the country . But in the end , they could not themselves , escape entire destruction . To avoid the fury of the Iroquois , they finally joined them against the Hurons , but gained nothing by ...
... took no part in the wars which deso- lated the country . But in the end , they could not themselves , escape entire destruction . To avoid the fury of the Iroquois , they finally joined them against the Hurons , but gained nothing by ...
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Seite 553 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Seite 193 - Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally, — bidding the lip of man Keep silence, — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Seite 259 - With all his howling desolating ba'nd ; — These eyes have seen their blade and burning pine Awake at once, and silence half your land. Red is the cup they drink ; but not with wine : Awake, and watch to-night, or see no morning shine...
Seite 338 - I find no appearance of a line remains ; and from the manner in which the people of the United States rush on, and act, and talk on this side ; and from what I learn of their conduct toward the sea, I shall not be surprised if we are at war with them in the course of the present year ; and if so, a line must then be drawn by the warriors.
Seite 190 - The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder; for when the wind blows out of the south, their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off.
Seite 88 - ... their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and their power to dispose of the soil at their own will, to whomsoever they pleased, was denied by the original fundamental principle, that discovery gave exclusive title to those who made it.
Seite 111 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Seite 196 - Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer, almost from infancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to its shades, no college crowned him with its honors; to read, to write, to cipher, these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen years of age — in quest of an honest maintenance encountering intolerable toil ; cheered onward by being able to write to a schoolboy friend, ' Dear Richard,...
Seite 110 - Near the latitude of thirty-three degrees, on the western bank of the Mississippi, stood the village of Mitchigamea, in a region that had not been visited by Europeans since the days of De Soto. ' Now,' thought Marquette, ' we must, indeed, ask the aid of the Virgin.
Seite 616 - Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have given bounds to a new empire.