Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - Mississippi River Valley |
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Common terms and phrases
Abenaquis aforementioned aforesaid Americans April Arkansas Arkansas River arrived attack August Bernardo de Gálvez boat Caddo Captain CARLOS DE GRAND-PRÉ Chickasaw nation chief Choctaw Colonel commandant Congress CRUZAT Rubric DEAR SIR district Don Benito Vasquez DON ESTEVAN MIRÓ Don Francisco Don Francisco Cruzat English Excellent Señor flatboats French GÁLVEZ Geneviève give GRAND-PRÉ Rubric GRAND-PRÉ TO MIRÓ honor Indians inhabitants Jacobo Du Breuil Josef Kaskaskia keep Your Lordship King kisses the hand Labadia land leagues LOUIS OF YLINUESES Louisiana Majesty MANUEL PEREZ militia Mississippi Missouri Mobile Monsieur Natchez Natchitoches Negroes Ohio River Oliver Pollock Orleans Osage Osage nation party peace Pensacola PEREZ persons pesos pirogues POLLOCK pounds present preserve Your Lordship promised province received Reply River royal savages Señor DON ESTEVAN sent servant kisses settle settlements Spain Spaniards Spanish told town trade tribes village witness
Popular passages
Page 115 - 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 : south by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Page 276 - Cherokees acknowledge themselves to be under the protection of the United States, and of no other power. Protection does not imply the destruction of the protected.
Page 114 - Benefices,'" should be extended: be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and immediately after the passing of this Act...
Page xvii - Samuel Cole Williams, History of the Lost State of Franklin (Johnson City, Tennessee, 1924), 26-33. »* Edmund C. Burnett, ed., "Papers Relating to Bourbon County, Georgia," American Historical Review, XV (1909-10), 68.
Page 116 - Captain general, governor and commander in chief in and over the state aforesaid.
Page 117 - Seven and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America the Eleventh.
Page 264 - River, which is granted, & if they settle themselves there I think it would be the best service could be done for those inhabitants on this account. I have had the greatest satisfaction in the honour I received in being acquainted that the Inhabitants of your District have distinguish my name with the preferring it for the denomination of that Country, which impels me...
Page 115 - Whereas it will not be propper at present to open a Land office for the purpose of granting out the lands in the said County, But nevertheless it is hereby enacted and declared that whenever that measure shall be determined upon by this or a future Legislature, there shall be a right of preference, agreeable to the laws of this State, reserved to any all and...
Page 114 - Lake, and the water -communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river 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 273 - Unprotected, we are to be obedient to the new Congress of the United States; but we cannot but wish for a more interesting Connection. "The United States afford us no protection. The district of Miro is daily plundered and the inhabitants murdered by the Creeks, and Cherokees, unprovoked. "For my own part, I conceive highly of the advantages of your Government.