History of Pittsburgh and Environs: From Prehistoric Days to the Beginning of the American Revolution, Volume 1American historical society, Incorporated, 1922 - Pennsylvania |
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... noted . The author acknowledges his obligations to Mr. John H. Leete , Libra- rian of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh , for the facilities he afforded for work in the Library , and also to his assistants in the Reference De- partment ...
... noted . The author acknowledges his obligations to Mr. John H. Leete , Libra- rian of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh , for the facilities he afforded for work in the Library , and also to his assistants in the Reference De- partment ...
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... noted pioneer , the Rev. Dr. Joseph Doddridge , such " find it difficult to realize the features of the wilderness which was the abode of their infant days . " Dr. Doddridge was a child of the forest . Though born in an older settled ...
... noted pioneer , the Rev. Dr. Joseph Doddridge , such " find it difficult to realize the features of the wilderness which was the abode of their infant days . " Dr. Doddridge was a child of the forest . Though born in an older settled ...
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... noted work1 which was published in Wellsburg ( now West Virginia ) , in 1824 , when he was sixty - five years old . Though this book is intensely interesting even to this generation , and is in itself an authentic history and there ...
... noted work1 which was published in Wellsburg ( now West Virginia ) , in 1824 , when he was sixty - five years old . Though this book is intensely interesting even to this generation , and is in itself an authentic history and there ...
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... noted that there were natural clearings in the forest . The one spoken of by Washington , similar to those in Central Pennsylvania , from which the name " Clearfield " has been given to the Pennsylvania county and town , these " clear ...
... noted that there were natural clearings in the forest . The one spoken of by Washington , similar to those in Central Pennsylvania , from which the name " Clearfield " has been given to the Pennsylvania county and town , these " clear ...
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... noted that : " The best roads to the Onondaga from all parts , are the buffalo tracks , so - called from having been observed to be made by the buffaloes in their annual visitations to the lakes for their pasture grounds , and though ...
... noted that : " The best roads to the Onondaga from all parts , are the buffalo tracks , so - called from having been observed to be made by the buffaloes in their annual visitations to the lakes for their pasture grounds , and though ...
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Page 555 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 144 - Rich tribute from the west, And Rappahannock sweetly sleeps On green Virginia's breast. Ye say their cone-like cabins, That clustered o'er the vale, Have fled away like withered leaves Before the autumn gale, But their memory liveth on your hills, Their baptism on your shore, Your everlasting rivers speak Their dialect of yore.
Page 121 - But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Page 555 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 246 - The cold was so extremely severe, that mr. Gist had all his fingers, and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island, on the ice, in the morning, and went to mr. Frazier's.
Page 410 - ... long as the Monongahela and the Alleghany shall flow to form the Ohio, long as the English tongue shall be the language of freedom in the boundless valley which their waters traverse, his name shall stand inscribed on the gateway of the west.
Page 378 - Whoever is in, or whoever is out, I am sure we are undone, both at home and abroad : at home by our increasing debt and expenses ; abroad by our ill-luck and incapacity. . . . We are no longer a nation. I never yet saw so dreadful a prospect.
Page 322 - ... and also a great many scalps. Those that were coming in, and those that had arrived, kept a constant firing of small arms, and also the great guns in the fort, which were accompanied with the most hideous shouts and yells from all quarters ; so that it appeared to me as if the infernal regions had broke loose.
Page 270 - Jumonville), he concluded with these words, — (I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this the King said sensibly, — 'He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many.