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 Forty Five |
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... measures to fortify certain points on the upper waters of the Ohio , from which all lower posts might be easily attacked , and , beginning at Persqu'Ile , or Erie , on the lake , prepared a line of communication with the Alleghany ...
... measures to fortify certain points on the upper waters of the Ohio , from which all lower posts might be easily attacked , and , beginning at Persqu'Ile , or Erie , on the lake , prepared a line of communication with the Alleghany ...
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... measures were taken , another treaty with the wild men of the debatable land was also in contemplation ; and in September , 1753 , William Fairfax met their deputies at Winches- ter , Virginia , where he concluded a treaty , with the ...
... measures were taken , another treaty with the wild men of the debatable land was also in contemplation ; and in September , 1753 , William Fairfax met their deputies at Winches- ter , Virginia , where he concluded a treaty , with the ...
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... measures , which were fully authorized by the letter of the Earl of Holdernesse , Secretary of State , written in the previous August , and which directed the Governors of the various provinces , after representing to those who were ...
... measures , which were fully authorized by the letter of the Earl of Holdernesse , Secretary of State , written in the previous August , and which directed the Governors of the various provinces , after representing to those who were ...
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... Measures were therefore taken to strengthen the fort , which , from the cir- cumstances , was named Fort Necessity . On the 1st of July , the Americans reached their position ; on the 3d the alarm was given of an approaching enemy ; at ...
... Measures were therefore taken to strengthen the fort , which , from the cir- cumstances , was named Fort Necessity . On the 1st of July , the Americans reached their position ; on the 3d the alarm was given of an approaching enemy ; at ...
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... measure was the resignation of Washington , who for a time , retired to Mount Vernon . * It was now the fall of 1754. In Pennsylvania , Morris , who had succeeded Hamilton , was busily occupied with making speeches to the Assembly and ...
... measure was the resignation of Washington , who for a time , retired to Mount Vernon . * It was now the fall of 1754. In Pennsylvania , Morris , who had succeeded Hamilton , was busily occupied with making speeches to the Assembly and ...
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Page 296 - ... establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory : to provide also for the establishment of States, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original States, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Page 262 - Port, Place, and Harbour within the same ; leaving in all Fortifications the American Artillery that may be therein : and shall also order and cause all Archives, Records, Deeds, and Papers belonging to any of the said States, or their Citizens, which in the course of the War may have fallen into the hands of his Officers, to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States and Persons to whom they belong.
Page 257 - 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...
Page 262 - Acts perfectly consistent, not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation, which, on the return of the blessings of Peace, should universally prevail.
Page 294 - There shall be appointed from time to time, by congress, a secretary whose commission shall continue in force for four years, unless sooner revoked; he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein, in five hundred acres of land, while in the exercise of his office...
Page 293 - Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid that the estates both of resident and nonresident proprietors in the said territory, dying intestate, shall descend to and be distributed among their children and the descendants of a deceased child in equal parts, the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their 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...
Page 294 - Previous to the organization of the General Assembly, the governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers, in each county or township, as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same...
Page 293 - Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purpose of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
Page 261 - 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 262 - British subjects, and also of the estates, rights and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States: And that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months, unmolested in their endeavours to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights and properties as may have been confiscated...