An Outline History of Orange County: With an Enumeration of the Names of Its Towns, Villages, Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, Ponds, Mountains, Hills and Other Known Localities and Their Etymologies Or Historical Reasons Therefor ; Together with Local Traditions and Short Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers, EtcS.T. Callahan, 1847 - 652 Seiten |
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... Jersey . What learned nonsense at this day , as far as New Jersey is concerned - for the island of Jersey had lost its name of Cæsarea centuries before New Jersey was known , or the continent discovered by Columbus . The same applies to ...
... Jersey . What learned nonsense at this day , as far as New Jersey is concerned - for the island of Jersey had lost its name of Cæsarea centuries before New Jersey was known , or the continent discovered by Columbus . The same applies to ...
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... Jersey on the west side of Hudson's River , along the said river to the Murderer's Creek , or bounds of the county of Ul- ster , and westward into the woods as far as Delaware River . " According to this it contained all that part of ...
... Jersey on the west side of Hudson's River , along the said river to the Murderer's Creek , or bounds of the county of Ul- ster , and westward into the woods as far as Delaware River . " According to this it contained all that part of ...
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... Jersey , and southeast by Rockland ; contains 760 square miles , or 486,400 acres , and is situated between 41 ° 8 N. and 41 ° 38 ' N. latitude - 10 E. and 43 ' W. longi- tude from the city of New York . By the State census of 1845 ...
... Jersey , and southeast by Rockland ; contains 760 square miles , or 486,400 acres , and is situated between 41 ° 8 N. and 41 ° 38 ' N. latitude - 10 E. and 43 ' W. longi- tude from the city of New York . By the State census of 1845 ...
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... Jersey , on the head waters of the Wallkill River , constitute the principal measure of this description of land ; they cover an area of 17,000 acres in this county , and 3,500 in New Jersey . The owners have made great exertions , and ...
... Jersey , on the head waters of the Wallkill River , constitute the principal measure of this description of land ; they cover an area of 17,000 acres in this county , and 3,500 in New Jersey . The owners have made great exertions , and ...
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... the south , washing the whole eastern boundary . Through the central portion , the Wallkill , rising in New Jersey , breaking from the slough of the Drowned Lands , pursues her uneven and winding way to the 22 GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTY .
... the south , washing the whole eastern boundary . Through the central portion , the Wallkill , rising in New Jersey , breaking from the slough of the Drowned Lands , pursues her uneven and winding way to the 22 GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTY .
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Seite 140 - ... that independency which your gallantry has given, and those riches which your wounds have preserved ? Is this the case ? Or is it rather a country, that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses? Have you not more than once suggested your wishes, and made known your wants to Congress, wants and wishes, which gratitude and policy should have anticipated, rather than evaded ? And have you not lately, in the meek language of entreating...
Seite 143 - Let me request you to rely on the plighted faith of your country, and place a full confidence in the purity of the intentions of congress, that, previous to your dissolution as an army, they will cause all your accounts to be fairly liquidated, as directed in...
Seite 141 - ... charity than to mark for suspicion the man who should recommend moderation and longer forbearance ; or, in other words, who should not think as he thinks, and act as he advises. " But he had another plan in view, in which...
Seite 143 - ... all Europe for its fortitude and patriotism ? and for what is this done ? to bring the object we seek nearer ? No ; most certainly in my opinion, it will cast it at a greater distance. For myself, (and I take no merit in giving the assurance, being induced to it from principles of gratitude, veracity, and justice...
Seite 143 - By thus determining, and thus acting, you will pursue the plain and direct road to the attainment of your wishes ; you will defeat the insidious designs of our enemies, who are compelled to resort from open force to secret artifice.
Seite 142 - ... stage of the war, that I am indifferent to its interests. But how are they to be promoted? The way is plain, says the anonymous addresser ; if war continues, remove into the unsettled country ; there establish yourselves, and leave an ungrateful country to defend itself.
Seite 140 - If you can, go — and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs — the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world. Go, starve, and be forgotten...
Seite 140 - But faith has its limits, as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither can be stretched without sinking into cowardice, or plunging into credulity.
Seite 331 - Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war; then, with unwearied hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The plough, and greatly independent lived.
Seite 147 - Those who do not look upon themselves as a link connecting the Past with the Future, do not perform their duty to the world.