Annals of the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County, Volume 1The Association, 1880 - Cuyahoga County (Ohio) |
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... Indian tribe , known as the Eries , occupied the south - eastern shore of Lake Erie , from whom the lake derives its name . They were a warlike race , and as evidence of this , have bequeathed to our times a series of earth mounds ...
... Indian tribe , known as the Eries , occupied the south - eastern shore of Lake Erie , from whom the lake derives its name . They were a warlike race , and as evidence of this , have bequeathed to our times a series of earth mounds ...
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... Indian prophets , great moral forces at work in the civilized world , which ultimately verified their prophetic utterances . Adventurers from the Old World soon began to colonize , at various points , the wilds of the New World . Our ...
... Indian prophets , great moral forces at work in the civilized world , which ultimately verified their prophetic utterances . Adventurers from the Old World soon began to colonize , at various points , the wilds of the New World . Our ...
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... with the aborigines . The Indians of the Reserve beheld the vision with alarm , and believed it to be a white - winged messenger , half walking and half flying on the water , sent by the Great Spirit to EARLY SETTLERS ASSOCIATION . 11.
... with the aborigines . The Indians of the Reserve beheld the vision with alarm , and believed it to be a white - winged messenger , half walking and half flying on the water , sent by the Great Spirit to EARLY SETTLERS ASSOCIATION . 11.
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... Indians , who gazed at it with wonder and retired in silence . In a few days the chiefs sent a messenger , demanding to know what were the intentions of the white intruders . This demand resulted in an agreement for holding a council ...
... Indians , who gazed at it with wonder and retired in silence . In a few days the chiefs sent a messenger , demanding to know what were the intentions of the white intruders . This demand resulted in an agreement for holding a council ...
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... Indians that the chiefs presented him at once the " pipe of peace " with some silver trinkets of value . He accepted the gifts , and after smoking the " pipe of peace " with the Indian counselors , he returned the compliment by ...
... Indians that the chiefs presented him at once the " pipe of peace " with some silver trinkets of value . He accepted the gifts , and after smoking the " pipe of peace " with the Indian counselors , he returned the compliment by ...
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Page 31 - The western state in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by the said territorial line to the lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Page 33 - Bay, where the said river falleth into the sea ; and on the north by the line of the Massachusetts plantation ; and on the south by the sea; and in longitude as the line of the Massachusetts colony, running from east to west, that is to say, from the said Narraganset Bay on the east, to the south sea on the west part, with the islands thereunto adjoining...
Page 32 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Page 51 - Logan, not sparing even my women and children. 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 48 - ... no man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land...
Page 19 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence.
Page 33 - We have given Granted and Confirmed and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors do give Grant and Confirm unto...
Page 18 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 27 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 16 - Hail, Columbia ! happy land ! Hail, ye heroes, heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause; And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies. Firm united let us be, Rallying round our liberty! As a band of brothers joined, Peace and safety we shall find.