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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... Miami , Ohio . Excessively cold , stormy , and severe winter . 1749. Grant of land to Loyal Company . Celeron sent to bury medals along the Ohio river . 1750. English traders it is said were made prisoners at Great Miami . Twigtwee or Miami ...
... Miami , Ohio . Excessively cold , stormy , and severe winter . 1749. Grant of land to Loyal Company . Celeron sent to bury medals along the Ohio river . 1750. English traders it is said were made prisoners at Great Miami . Twigtwee or Miami ...
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... Miami ( near Fort Wayne ) garrison made prisoners . Fort at Green Bay evacuated and garrison escaped . Le Bœuf attacked , fort burnt , garrison escaped . The date of the massacre at forts at Venango not known . Battle of Bushy Run ...
... Miami ( near Fort Wayne ) garrison made prisoners . Fort at Green Bay evacuated and garrison escaped . Le Bœuf attacked , fort burnt , garrison escaped . The date of the massacre at forts at Venango not known . Battle of Bushy Run ...
Page xxiv
... Miami valley . Fort Laurens on Tuscarawas abandoned . Indians treat with Brodhead at Fort Pitt . Rogers and Benham attacked by Indians . Land Commissioners open their sessions in Kentucky . Congress asks Virginia to reconsider land laws ...
... Miami valley . Fort Laurens on Tuscarawas abandoned . Indians treat with Brodhead at Fort Pitt . Rogers and Benham attacked by Indians . Land Commissioners open their sessions in Kentucky . Congress asks Virginia to reconsider land laws ...
Page xxv
... Miami valley . Provisional articles of peace with Great Britain . Rice's Fort , near Wheeling , assailed by Indians . Lexington , Ky . , incorporated by Virginia Assembly . Fort Nelson built at falls of Ohio , Louisville . Catfish ...
... Miami valley . Provisional articles of peace with Great Britain . Rice's Fort , near Wheeling , assailed by Indians . Lexington , Ky . , incorporated by Virginia Assembly . Fort Nelson built at falls of Ohio , Louisville . Catfish ...
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... Miami villages . Camp at Miami village ; men behave unsoldier - like . Colonel Trotter is sent to reconnoitre the Indian haunts . Hardin attacks Indians ; not successfully . Hardin desires another trial with Indians ; is again defeated ...
... Miami villages . Camp at Miami village ; men behave unsoldier - like . Colonel Trotter is sent to reconnoitre the Indian haunts . Hardin attacks Indians ; not successfully . Hardin desires another trial with Indians ; is again defeated ...
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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 472 - 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. Provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
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 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...
Page 468 - The representatives thus elected, shall serve for the term of two years, and in case of the death of a representative, or removal from office, the governor shall issue a writ to the county or township for which he was a member, to elect another in his stead, to serve for the residue of the term.
Page 470 - The inhabitants of the said territory, shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.
Page 470 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Page 748 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.