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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... Woods . The Corn Husking . The Apple Cutting and the Frolic . - The Lux- uries of Nature . - The Old , Old Story in the New Coun- try . - Presto , Change . — The Primeval Forests of Ohio . • 112 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . WESTWARD THE ...
... Woods . The Corn Husking . The Apple Cutting and the Frolic . - The Lux- uries of Nature . - The Old , Old Story in the New Coun- try . - Presto , Change . — The Primeval Forests of Ohio . • 112 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . WESTWARD THE ...
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... wood - wise scouts who should track the wilderness and discover the most practicable routes . In 1750 a path was discovered to the Ohio by Wil- lis Creek ( Cumberland ) , and traders carried goods to that creek and there sold them ...
... wood - wise scouts who should track the wilderness and discover the most practicable routes . In 1750 a path was discovered to the Ohio by Wil- lis Creek ( Cumberland ) , and traders carried goods to that creek and there sold them ...
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... woods of Kentucky and Tennessee . This fact makes the mind realize that a white population had colonized regions west of the mountains before the struggle for national independ- ence had ended , and long before the Father of his Country ...
... woods of Kentucky and Tennessee . This fact makes the mind realize that a white population had colonized regions west of the mountains before the struggle for national independ- ence had ended , and long before the Father of his Country ...
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... Woods and Mississippi . The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line , the Wabash from Port Vincent's to the Ohio , by the Ohio , by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial ...
... Woods and Mississippi . The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line , the Wabash from Port Vincent's to the Ohio , by the Ohio , by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial ...
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... woods ; Your wheels as they rumble shall scare The fleet - footed deer from the road , And waken the sulky brown bear In his long unmolested abode ; The red man shall gaze in dumb fear At the wain of the strange pioneer ; His barbarous ...
... woods ; Your wheels as they rumble shall scare The fleet - footed deer from the road , And waken the sulky brown bear In his long unmolested abode ; The red man shall gaze in dumb fear At the wain of the strange pioneer ; His barbarous ...
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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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