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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... authority . Quoted by Pownall , in his Memorial on Service in North America , drawn up in 1756 . It forms an appendix to his " Administration of the Colonies , " 4th edition , London , 1768 . There is also an English map published in ...
... authority . Quoted by Pownall , in his Memorial on Service in North America , drawn up in 1756 . It forms an appendix to his " Administration of the Colonies , " 4th edition , London , 1768 . There is also an English map published in ...
Page 45
... authority is a late work , ( Chronicles of Border Warfare , ) and the account is merely traditional , we presume ; Salling is named in the note to Du Pratz , as having been with Howard in 1742. There are various vague accounts of ...
... authority is a late work , ( Chronicles of Border Warfare , ) and the account is merely traditional , we presume ; Salling is named in the note to Du Pratz , as having been with Howard in 1742. There are various vague accounts of ...
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... authority , and two thousand according to another , went thither from Illinois , convoys annually going down in December with the produce . † Having these fears , and seeing the danger of the late movements of the British , Galli ...
... authority , and two thousand according to another , went thither from Illinois , convoys annually going down in December with the produce . † Having these fears , and seeing the danger of the late movements of the British , Galli ...
Page 55
... authority of the Six Nations to make it , but denied that they had any knowledge of the western lands being conveyed to the English by said deed ; and declined , upon the whole , having any thing to do with the treaty of 1744. " However ...
... authority of the Six Nations to make it , but denied that they had any knowledge of the western lands being conveyed to the English by said deed ; and declined , upon the whole , having any thing to do with the treaty of 1744. " However ...
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... authority of Dr. Craik , the intimate friend of Washington from his boyhood to his death , and who was with him at the battle of the Monongahela . Fifteen years after that event , they travelled together on an expedition to the Western ...
... authority of Dr. Craik , the intimate friend of Washington from his boyhood to his death , and who was with him at the battle of the Monongahela . Fifteen years after that event , they travelled together on an expedition to the Western ...
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