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... called " Gaps . " The Susquehanna enters the Valley through a gap in the western mountain called the " Lackawannock Gap , " and flowing in a serpentine course about twenty miles , leaves the Valley through another opening in the same ...
... called " Gaps . " The Susquehanna enters the Valley through a gap in the western mountain called the " Lackawannock Gap , " and flowing in a serpentine course about twenty miles , leaves the Valley through another opening in the same ...
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... called the up- per and lower " Flats , " and spontaneously pro- duce quantities of Plumbs , Grapes , many kinds of Berries , and a great variety of wild Flowers . one to the other . In many parts of the Valley , and in the sides of the ...
... called the up- per and lower " Flats , " and spontaneously pro- duce quantities of Plumbs , Grapes , many kinds of Berries , and a great variety of wild Flowers . one to the other . In many parts of the Valley , and in the sides of the ...
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... called the Dela- wares , who called it Maughwauwame . The word is a compound ; Maughwau , meaning large or extensive , and wame , signifying plains or meadows ; so that it may be translated " The Large Plains . " The name in the ...
... called the Dela- wares , who called it Maughwauwame . The word is a compound ; Maughwau , meaning large or extensive , and wame , signifying plains or meadows ; so that it may be translated " The Large Plains . " The name in the ...
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... called the Mon- ceys , occupied the country extending from the Kittatinnunk or principal mountain , now called the Blue Mountain , to the heads of the Delaware and Susquehanna . This tribe had their principal settlement or council fire ...
... called the Mon- ceys , occupied the country extending from the Kittatinnunk or principal mountain , now called the Blue Mountain , to the heads of the Delaware and Susquehanna . This tribe had their principal settlement or council fire ...
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... called the Nanticokes , who inhabited the eastern shore of the Chesapeak Bay , removed to Wyoming in May 1748 with their chief Sachem called White.- Finding the pricipal part of the Valley in possess- ion of the Shawanese and Delawares ...
... called the Nanticokes , who inhabited the eastern shore of the Chesapeak Bay , removed to Wyoming in May 1748 with their chief Sachem called White.- Finding the pricipal part of the Valley in possess- ion of the Shawanese and Delawares ...
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Page 12 - We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women. Nor is it fit you should have the power of selling lands, since you / would abuse it.
Page 34 - Narraganset river, the space of forty leagues upon a straight line near the sea shore towards the southwest, west and by south, or west, as the coast lieth towards Virginia, accounting three English miles to the league; and also all and singular the lands and hereditaments whatsoever, lying and being within the lands aforesaid, north and south in latitude and breadth, and in length and longitude of and within, all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the main lands there, from the western ocean to the...
Page 43 - ... but if the said river shall not extend so far northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are to be determined by a meridian line, to be drawn from the head of the said river, unto the said forty-third degree.
Page 12 - For all these reasons, we charge you to remove instantly ; we don't give you liberty to think about it. You are women.
Page 12 - You have told us a blind story, that you sent a messenger to us, to inform us of the sale; but he never came amongst us, nor did we ever hear any thing about it. This is acting in the dark, and very different from the conduct our Six Nations observe in the sales of land.
Page 15 - Zinzendorf was alone in his tent, seated upon a bundle of dry weeds which composed his bed, and engaged in writing, when the assassins approached to execute their bloody commission. It was night, and the cool air of September had rendered a -small fire necessary to his comfort and convenience. A curtain formed of a blanket and hung upon pins was the only guard to the entrance of his tent. The heat of his...
Page 128 - We are unanimously of Opinion that the State of Connecticut has no right to the Lands in controversy. "We are also unanimously of Opinion that the Jurisdiction and Preemption of all the Territory lying within the Charter boundary of Pennsylvania and now claimed by the State of Connecticut do of Right belong to the State of Pennsylvania.
Page 32 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 32 - Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England in America, and to their successors and assigns for ever, all that part of America, lying and being in breadth, from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, to forty-eight degrees of the said northerly latitude inclusively, and in length, of and within all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the main lands from sea to sea...
Page 97 - Crown to the lands aforesaid, within the limits and bounds of their patent aforesaid, lying westward of the province of New York, and not included in the patent of King Charles the second to the Duke of York, notwithstanding the several settlements of boundaries, between the colony on the east, and the Province on the west, made as well by agreement between the parties, as under the royal authority, and notwithstanding the subsequent charter to Sir William Penn?