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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... told the world . † Among those to whom this report came , was Ferdinand de Soto , who had been with Pizarro in the conquest of Peru , and who longed for an opportunity to make himself as rich and noted as the other great Captains of the ...
... told the world . † Among those to whom this report came , was Ferdinand de Soto , who had been with Pizarro in the conquest of Peru , and who longed for an opportunity to make himself as rich and noted as the other great Captains of the ...
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... told of their venturous plan , begged them to desist . There were Indians , they said , on that great river , who would cut off their heads without the least cause ; warriors who would seize them ; monsters who would swallow them ...
... told of their venturous plan , begged them to desist . There were Indians , they said , on that great river , who would cut off their heads without the least cause ; warriors who would seize them ; monsters who would swallow them ...
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... told them , that this was a village of the " Illinois . " The voyagers were then conducted into the town , where all received them as friends , and treated them to a great smoking . After much complimenting and present - making , a ...
... told them , that this was a village of the " Illinois . " The voyagers were then conducted into the town , where all received them as friends , and treated them to a great smoking . After much complimenting and present - making , a ...
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... told them be secured to France . The king listened ; and soon the town of Rochelle was busy with the stir of artisans , ship - riggers , adventurers , sol- diers , sailors , and all that varied crowd which in those days looked into the ...
... told them be secured to France . The king listened ; and soon the town of Rochelle was busy with the stir of artisans , ship - riggers , adventurers , sol- diers , sailors , and all that varied crowd which in those days looked into the ...
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... told to bring their timber with them in a float . The float or raft was begun " with immense labor , " says the wearied historian , but all to no purpose , for the weather was so adverse , that it had to be all taken apart again and ...
... told to bring their timber with them in a float . The float or raft was begun " with immense labor , " says the wearied historian , but all to no purpose , for the weather was so adverse , that it had to be all taken apart again 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...