The Old Northwest: With a View of the Thirteen Colonies as Constituted by the Royal Charters, Volume 1 |
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... close of the Revolution is the most important territo- rial question treated in the history of American diplomacy . After the war , the Northwest began to assume a constantly increasing importance in the national history . It is the ...
... close of the Revolution is the most important territo- rial question treated in the history of American diplomacy . After the war , the Northwest began to assume a constantly increasing importance in the national history . It is the ...
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... close of the six- teenth century she began to awake to her opportunity , and to take an interest in western planting . Her first colony was Jamestown , planted in 1607 ; and between that date and 1733 she had absorbed the Dutch and the ...
... close of the six- teenth century she began to awake to her opportunity , and to take an interest in western planting . Her first colony was Jamestown , planted in 1607 ; and between that date and 1733 she had absorbed the Dutch and the ...
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... close of the last century , the safest , easiest , and quickest line of travel from Philadelphia or Baltimore to Cen- tral Kentucky , or even to Fort Hamilton , that stood on the present site of Cincinnati , led to Wadkins ' Ferry on ...
... close of the last century , the safest , easiest , and quickest line of travel from Philadelphia or Baltimore to Cen- tral Kentucky , or even to Fort Hamilton , that stood on the present site of Cincinnati , led to Wadkins ' Ferry on ...
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... close it , which Du Lhut hastened to execute . In 1686 he built Fort St. Joseph , at the head of the Strait , near where Fort Gratiot afterward stood . St. Joseph was abandoned and destroyed soon after , but not until a fort had been ...
... close it , which Du Lhut hastened to execute . In 1686 he built Fort St. Joseph , at the head of the Strait , near where Fort Gratiot afterward stood . St. Joseph was abandoned and destroyed soon after , but not until a fort had been ...
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... close of the seventeenth century . The Wabash Valley was occupied about 1700 , the first set- tlers entering it by the portage leading from the Kankakee . Later the voyageurs found a shorter route to the fertile val- ley . Ascending the ...
... close of the seventeenth century . The Wabash Valley was occupied about 1700 , the first set- tlers entering it by the portage leading from the Kankakee . Later the voyageurs found a shorter route to the fertile val- ley . Ascending the ...
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Page 98 - ... as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are...
Page 177 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...
Page 146 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with...
Page 95 - River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Page 122 - Indians with whom we are connected, and who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the possession of such parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are reserved to them, or any of them...
Page 187 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 121 - The Government of Quebec bounded on the Labrador coast by the River St John, and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that river through the Lake St. John, to the south end of the Lake Nipissim; from whence the said line, crossing the River St Lawrence, and the Lake Champlain, in 45.
Page 142 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Page 95 - River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or river, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware "Bay, and to the northward as far as the...
Page 191 - ... drawn from the said point due north or south, as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude...