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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Page vi
August , La Salle returns unsuccessful . 1687. Jan. 12 , La Salle leaves for
Mississippi the third time . March 15 , La Salle sends men to look for stores .
March 17 , La Salle follows and is killed by those men . May , His murderers
quarrel ; seven ...
August , La Salle returns unsuccessful . 1687. Jan. 12 , La Salle leaves for
Mississippi the third time . March 15 , La Salle sends men to look for stores .
March 17 , La Salle follows and is killed by those men . May , His murderers
quarrel ; seven ...
Page ix
March , The Boones return to North Carolina . 1772 . Indians killed by whites on
Lower Kenawha . May 3 , Moravians invited by Delawares , found Shoenbrun on
the Muskingum . April , General Gage's proclamation against settlers on Wabash
...
March , The Boones return to North Carolina . 1772 . Indians killed by whites on
Lower Kenawha . May 3 , Moravians invited by Delawares , found Shoenbrun on
the Muskingum . April , General Gage's proclamation against settlers on Wabash
...
Page xvii
1835. May , Michigan asks admission to United States . Congress offers her
conditions . 1836. Sept. Terms offered Michigan rejected . Dec. Terms in a
second Convention agreed to . Michigan admitted . Sept. Alton riots , Lovejoy
killed . 1838 .
1835. May , Michigan asks admission to United States . Congress offers her
conditions . 1836. Sept. Terms offered Michigan rejected . Dec. Terms in a
second Convention agreed to . Michigan admitted . Sept. Alton riots , Lovejoy
killed . 1838 .
Page 5
... there were heats there that would infallibly kill them . “ I thanked them for their
good advice , ” says Marquette , “ but I told them that I could not follow it ; since
the salvation of souls was at stake , for which I should be overjoyed to give my life
.
... there were heats there that would infallibly kill them . “ I thanked them for their
good advice , ” says Marquette , “ but I told them that I could not follow it ; since
the salvation of souls was at stake , for which I should be overjoyed to give my life
.
Page 25
... go and seek them . This they did , but found that the food was all spoiled , so
they turned toward the camp again . While coming campward they chanced upon
two bullocks , which were killed by one of La Salle's hunters , who was with them
.
... go and seek them . This they did , but found that the food was all spoiled , so
they turned toward the camp again . While coming campward they chanced upon
two bullocks , which were killed by one of La Salle's hunters , who was with them
.
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Page 289 - ... no man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land; and should the public exigencies make it necessary for the common preservation to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same...
Page 251 - 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 256 - ... 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 223 - Resolved, That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, by any particular State, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress of the 6th day of September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States...
Page 286 - 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 286 - 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 98 - And we do further strictly enjoin and require all persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any lands within the countries above described, or upon any other lands which, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, are still reserved to the said Indians, as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements.
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Page 286 - There shall also be appointed a court, to consist of three judges, any two of whom to form a court, who shall have a...
Page 223 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
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| Title | 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 Issue 32169 of CIHM/ICMH microfiche series |
| Author | James Handasyd Perkins |
| Publisher | J.R. Albach, 1846 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 591 pages |
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