The Olden Time: A Monthly Publication Devoted to the Preservation of Documents and Other Authentic Information in Relation to the Early Explorations and the Settlement and Improvement of the Country Around the Head of the OhioNeville B. Craig Robert Clarke & Company, 1876 - Local history |
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... reasons , we charge you to remove instantly ; we don't give you liberty to think about it . You are women . Don't deliberate , but remove away . " The Delawares dared not disobey . They left the council immediately , and soon after ...
... reasons , we charge you to remove instantly ; we don't give you liberty to think about it . You are women . Don't deliberate , but remove away . " The Delawares dared not disobey . They left the council immediately , and soon after ...
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... reason of many large miry savannas ; that we must be obliged to go by Venango , and should not get to the near fort in less than five or six nights sleep , good traveling . When he went to the fort , he said , he was received in a very ...
... reason of many large miry savannas ; that we must be obliged to go by Venango , and should not get to the near fort in less than five or six nights sleep , good traveling . When he went to the fort , he said , he was received in a very ...
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... reason they gave for not sendiug more , after what had been proposed at council the 26th , was , that a greater number might give the French suspicions of some bad design , and cause them to be treated rudely ; but I rather think they ...
... reason they gave for not sendiug more , after what had been proposed at council the 26th , was , that a greater number might give the French suspicions of some bad design , and cause them to be treated rudely ; but I rather think they ...
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... , fond of criticising the pro- ceedings of others , without considering circumstances or giving just atten tion to reasons which might be offered to obviate their censures . ' “ Vanbraam was a Dutchman , and had but an 52 THE OLDEN TIME .
... , fond of criticising the pro- ceedings of others , without considering circumstances or giving just atten tion to reasons which might be offered to obviate their censures . ' “ Vanbraam was a Dutchman , and had but an 52 THE OLDEN TIME .
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... reason for believing that the French and Indians , together , made a body of at least nine hundred . " It was a subject of mortification to Colonel Washington that Governor Dinwiddie refused to ratify the capitulation , in regard to the ...
... reason for believing that the French and Indians , together , made a body of at least nine hundred . " It was a subject of mortification to Colonel Washington that Governor Dinwiddie refused to ratify the capitulation , in regard to the ...
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Allegheny army arrived ARTHUR ST Beaver belt bottom boundary Bouquet Braddock Brethren brother called Captain charter chief claim Colonel colonies command Commissioners Connolly council creek Croghan degree Delaware desire Duquesne encamped enemy English Erie Esquire fire Five Nations Fort Duquesne Fort Pitt French friendship give Governor grant hear honor horses hundred Indians informed inhabitants John Penn jurisdiction killed King Lake land latitude letter Logstown Lord Baltimore Lord Dunmore Lordship Majesty's Maryland miles Monongahela mouth officers Ohio Ohio river Olden party passed peace Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pitt Pittsburgh present prisoners province province of Pennsylvania received river road savages sent settled settlements Shawanese side Sir William Johnson Six Nations soon Stobo string territory tion told town traders treaty tribes troops Venango Virginia wampum warriors Washington western Westmoreland county Williamsburg wounded
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Page 533 - ... northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern...
Page 25 - The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island on the ice in the morning,* and went to Mr. Frazier's.
Page 435 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.
Page 434 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea,. west and northwest...
Page 91 - ... all the country, not thinking himself safe till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of British regulars had not been well founded.
Page 332 - French : but to this end it was necessary to appoint some officers, especially subalterns, who understood military discipline, and could speak the German language ; and as a sufficient number of...
Page 21 - Monsieur La Force, commissary of the French stores, and three other soldiers, came over to accompany us up. We found it extremely difficult to get the Indians off to-day, as every stratagem had been used to prevent their going up with me. I had last night left John Davidson (the Indian interpreter), whom I brought with me from town, and strictly charged him not to be out of their company, as I could not get them over to my tent ; for they had some business with...
Page 570 - A claim so injurious to more than one half, if not to the whole of the United States, ought to be supported by the clearest evidence of the right. Yet what evidences of that right have been produced? what arguments alleged in support either of the evidence or the right; none that we have heard of deserving a serious refutation.
Page 90 - Indians, who, by constant practice, are dexterous in laying and executing them ; and the slender line, near four miles long, which your army must make, may expose it to be attacked by surprise in its flanks, and to be cut like a thread into several pieces, which, from their distance, cannot come up in time to support each other.
Page 16 - I sling it at you. Child, you talk foolish. You say this land belongs to you, but there is not the black of my nail yours. I saw that land sooner than you did; before the Shannoahs and you were at war. Lead was the man who went down and took possession of that river. It is my land, and I will have it, let who will stand up for or say against it. I will buy and sell with the English ( mockingly). If people will be ruled by me, they may expect kindness, but not else.