Annals of the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County, Volume 1The Association, 1880 - Cuyahoga County (Ohio) |
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... beauti- ful city . I cannot doubt that our citizens , ever proverbial for liberality , would aid us in the work . I would also most respectfully suggest that hereafter our annual meeting be held on EARLY SETTLERS ASSOCIATON . 23.
... beauti- ful city . I cannot doubt that our citizens , ever proverbial for liberality , would aid us in the work . I would also most respectfully suggest that hereafter our annual meeting be held on EARLY SETTLERS ASSOCIATON . 23.
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Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County. respectfully suggest that hereafter our annual meeting be held on the 22d day of July - the anniversary of General Cleave land's arrival at the mouth of the Cuyahoga . 7. - Song- " The Good ...
Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County. respectfully suggest that hereafter our annual meeting be held on the 22d day of July - the anniversary of General Cleave land's arrival at the mouth of the Cuyahoga . 7. - Song- " The Good ...
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... meeting , and responded as follows : REMARKS OF MR . HAYDEN . My remarks , as I am called at the instant , will be very brief , and chiefly for two reasons : The approaching lateness of the hour , which some may feel , and the other ...
... meeting , and responded as follows : REMARKS OF MR . HAYDEN . My remarks , as I am called at the instant , will be very brief , and chiefly for two reasons : The approaching lateness of the hour , which some may feel , and the other ...
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... to make a contract with him for the engine , and were to pay him $ 400 , $ 50 down and $ 350 in a note of the corporation . There was a set of men here who were hostile to the measure . They got up a meeting EARLY SETTLERS ASSOCIATION . 61.
... to make a contract with him for the engine , and were to pay him $ 400 , $ 50 down and $ 350 in a note of the corporation . There was a set of men here who were hostile to the measure . They got up a meeting EARLY SETTLERS ASSOCIATION . 61.
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... meeting and talked pretty strongly , intimating that we had joined hands with Seelye to swindle the people here , and that we undoubtedly participated in the plunder . But we bought the engine and paid the $ 50 like honest men , and ...
... meeting and talked pretty strongly , intimating that we had joined hands with Seelye to swindle the people here , and that we undoubtedly participated in the plunder . But we bought the engine and paid the $ 50 like honest men , and ...
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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.