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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... chiefs visit Philadelphia . Instructions issued to Rufus Putnam . Feb. Feb. 1 , March , April 3 , Instructions issued to Trueman . April 3 , Kentucky Constitution prepared . May 8 , Excise laws amended . May 8 , Captain Hendrick sent ...
... chiefs visit Philadelphia . Instructions issued to Rufus Putnam . Feb. Feb. 1 , March , April 3 , Instructions issued to Trueman . April 3 , Kentucky Constitution prepared . May 8 , Excise laws amended . May 8 , Captain Hendrick sent ...
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... chief fort in that southern colony . After this things went on but slowly until 1708 ; D'Iberville died on one of his voyages between the mother country and and her sickly daughter , and after his death little was done . In 1708 ...
... chief fort in that southern colony . After this things went on but slowly until 1708 ; D'Iberville died on one of his voyages between the mother country and and her sickly daughter , and after his death little was done . In 1708 ...
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... chief town of the Natchez , that the intruders might use its site for a plantation . The inimical Chicka- saws heard the murmurs of their wronged brethren , and breathed into their ears counsels of vengeance ; the sufferers determined ...
... chief town of the Natchez , that the intruders might use its site for a plantation . The inimical Chicka- saws heard the murmurs of their wronged brethren , and breathed into their ears counsels of vengeance ; the sufferers determined ...
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... chiefs and people , were sent to St. Domingo and sold into slavery . So perished this ancient and peculiar race , in the same year in which the Company of the West yielded its grants into the royal hands . When Louisiana came again into ...
... chiefs and people , were sent to St. Domingo and sold into slavery . So perished this ancient and peculiar race , in the same year in which the Company of the West yielded its grants into the royal hands . When Louisiana came again into ...
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... chiefs , by which their lands were conveyed to England , in trust , " to be protected and defended by his Majesty , to and for the use of the grantors and their heirs . " If , then , the Six Nations had a good claim to the western ...
... chiefs , by which their lands were conveyed to England , in trust , " to be protected and defended by his Majesty , to and for the use of the grantors and their heirs . " If , then , the Six Nations had a good claim to the western ...
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