Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley: A Centennial SketchOhio Valley Press, 1888 - 128 páginas A history of the exploration and settlement of the Ohio Valley by France and England; also discusses frontier life in Ohio and Indiana. |
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... half as many people as the colonies contained at the close of the French and Indian War . It is now but twelve years since the people of the United States commemorated the founding of the Nation , by holding at Philadelphia a grand ...
... half as many people as the colonies contained at the close of the French and Indian War . It is now but twelve years since the people of the United States commemorated the founding of the Nation , by holding at Philadelphia a grand ...
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... half ago Jean Nicollet , the French interpreter , who lived with the Indians and like an Indian , discovered the Wisconsin , and thought himself within three days ' journey of the South Sea . La Salle discovered and 12 FOOTPRINTS OF THE ...
... half ago Jean Nicollet , the French interpreter , who lived with the Indians and like an Indian , discovered the Wisconsin , and thought himself within three days ' journey of the South Sea . La Salle discovered and 12 FOOTPRINTS OF THE ...
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... half a century earlier than the found- ing of Marietta . Gist carried the surveyor's chain to within fifty miles of the Falls of the Ohio . He visited various Indian tribes and villages , endeavoring to win their allegiance to the ...
... half a century earlier than the found- ing of Marietta . Gist carried the surveyor's chain to within fifty miles of the Falls of the Ohio . He visited various Indian tribes and villages , endeavoring to win their allegiance to the ...
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... half is concerned with provisions for the temporary government of the North - western Ter- ritory , until such time as a general assembly or leg- islature should be organized . The duties of the gov- ernor , secretary , and judges are ...
... half is concerned with provisions for the temporary government of the North - western Ter- ritory , until such time as a general assembly or leg- islature should be organized . The duties of the gov- ernor , secretary , and judges are ...
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... half millions of dollars , but as the payments were made in public securities , worth only twelve cents on the dollar , the real price was only eight or nine cents per acre . " The actual settlement of the Ohio country was coincident ...
... half millions of dollars , but as the payments were made in public securities , worth only twelve cents on the dollar , the real price was only eight or nine cents per acre . " The actual settlement of the Ohio country was coincident ...
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Alleghanies beautiful boat boatmen Boone Boston Braddock Braddock Road Buckeye Buckeye trees buffalo build built cabin called canoe Captain Cincinnati Clair colony Congress corn Cumberland Gap Cutler East emigrants England feet Fifty years ago five Flint floating forest France French Governor Harmar horse hundred hunters Illinois Indian JOHN CLEVES SYMMES John Filson journey July Kentucky Lake land Licking Little Miami River log-cabin Losantiville MANASSEH CUTLER Marietta Massachusetts Matthias Denman migration miles Mississippi mountains Muskingum northwest Northwestern Territory Ohio Company Ohio country Ohio River Ohio Valley opposite the mouth Ordinance of 1787 party patriotic Philadelphia pioneer Pittsburgh poles population puncheons route rude Rufus Putnam Salle savage Schultz settlement settlers side spot Stites stream Symmes purchase thousand Timothy Flint took town Tupper twenty United Virginia wagon Washington West Western wheels whisky wild Wilderness Road William woods York
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Página 26 - 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; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Página 26 - ... the United States in Congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Página 27 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Página 28 - 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.
Página 24 - 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.
Página 24 - 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.
Página 27 - There shall be formed in the said territory, not less than three, nor more than five states; and the boundaries of the states, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession, and consent to the same shall become fixed and established as follows...
Página 27 - Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it - expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Página 26 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made, or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with, or affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Página 27 - 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.
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