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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Page 45
... took formal possession of the country in the name of the emperor . No Indians were to be seen , and the Spaniards encamped securely on the shore ; but during the night they were attacked with great fury , defeated and driven to their ...
... took formal possession of the country in the name of the emperor . No Indians were to be seen , and the Spaniards encamped securely on the shore ; but during the night they were attacked with great fury , defeated and driven to their ...
Page 58
... took advantage of this absence of the Indians to help himself to a sufficiency of maize , of which large quantities were found hidden in holes under the huts or wigwams . This done , the voyagers betook themselves to the stream again ...
... took advantage of this absence of the Indians to help himself to a sufficiency of maize , of which large quantities were found hidden in holes under the huts or wigwams . This done , the voyagers betook themselves to the stream again ...
Page 60
... took them up the river until about the 1st of May , when they reached the Falls of St. Anthony , which were then so named by Hennepin , in honor of his patron saint . Here they took to the land , and traveling nearly two hundred miles ...
... took them up the river until about the 1st of May , when they reached the Falls of St. Anthony , which were then so named by Hennepin , in honor of his patron saint . Here they took to the land , and traveling nearly two hundred miles ...
Page 66
... took the rest of his people and embarked on the river , with the resolution of going up as high as he could . Joutel stayed but a short time after him in the fort which had been begun ; every night the savages were roving in the ...
... took the rest of his people and embarked on the river , with the resolution of going up as high as he could . Joutel stayed but a short time after him in the fort which had been begun ; every night the savages were roving in the ...
Page 73
... took place is still called " English turn . " This was the first meeting of those rival nations in the Mississippi valley , which , from that day , was a bone of contention between them till the conclusion of the French war of 1756. Nor ...
... took place is still called " English turn . " This was the first meeting of those rival nations in the Mississippi valley , which , from that day , was a bone of contention between them till the conclusion of the French war of 1756. Nor ...
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Page 471 - 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.
Page 416 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 472 - 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.
Page 747 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...
Page 471 - 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...
Page 407 - 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, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 471 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.
Page 466 - ... deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin, in equal degree; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intestate shall have in equal parts among them their deceased parents.
Page 413 - It is agreed, that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Page 408 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...