Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which Have Occurred in the Western States and Territories, from the Discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-six |
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... passed . Second Kentucky Convention meets . Don Gardoqui comes from Spain . Third Kentucky Convention meets . A colony emigrates from Virginia to Illinois . Great confederacy of Northera Indians formed by Brant . Fort Harmar built at ...
... passed . Second Kentucky Convention meets . Don Gardoqui comes from Spain . Third Kentucky Convention meets . A colony emigrates from Virginia to Illinois . Great confederacy of Northera Indians formed by Brant . Fort Harmar built at ...
Page xxxi
... passed . Cleveland , Ohio , first populated . Brooke county , Virginia , erected . British subjects from Detroit settle near Fort Malden . 1798. William Henry Harrison made Secretary of North - West Territory . Alien and sedition laws ...
... passed . Cleveland , Ohio , first populated . Brooke county , Virginia , erected . British subjects from Detroit settle near Fort Malden . 1798. William Henry Harrison made Secretary of North - West Territory . Alien and sedition laws ...
Page xl
... passed by Congress . Summer and autumn of this year an unprecedented drouth . Epidemic cholera at Pittsburgh . This year closes with fearful forebodings of famine . 1855. Explosion of the steam boat " Lexington " on Ohio river . From ...
... passed by Congress . Summer and autumn of this year an unprecedented drouth . Epidemic cholera at Pittsburgh . This year closes with fearful forebodings of famine . 1855. Explosion of the steam boat " Lexington " on Ohio river . From ...
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... passed on to what they heard was the great and rich province of Appalachec . Vita- chuco , one of the chiefs of that region , was hostile ; but he was won by the presents and promises of De Soto , and came with his warriors and people ...
... passed on to what they heard was the great and rich province of Appalachec . Vita- chuco , one of the chiefs of that region , was hostile ; but he was won by the presents and promises of De Soto , and came with his warriors and people ...
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... passed by way of the Ottawa to Lake Huron and to the Sault Ste . Marie , † and established at St. Joseph , St. Louis , and St. Ignatius , villages of Christian Hurons . In 1640 , Raymbault and Pigart followed , and in the next year ...
... passed by way of the Ottawa to Lake Huron and to the Sault Ste . Marie , † and established at St. Joseph , St. Louis , and St. Ignatius , villages of Christian Hurons . In 1640 , Raymbault and Pigart followed , and in the next year ...
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