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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... give them any . And here are our lonely settlers , building a fort upon the shores of the Bay of St. Louis , as they called it , known to us as the Bay of St. Bernard , or Matagorda Bay , in Texas . They build from the wreck of their ...
... give them any . And here are our lonely settlers , building a fort upon the shores of the Bay of St. Louis , as they called it , known to us as the Bay of St. Bernard , or Matagorda Bay , in Texas . They build from the wreck of their ...
Page 38
... give no better idea than may be gathered from the follow- ing extracts of letters written by Vivier , a missionary among the Illinois . Writing " Aux Illinois , " six leagues from Fort Chartres , June Sth , 1750 , Vivier says : " We ...
... give no better idea than may be gathered from the follow- ing extracts of letters written by Vivier , a missionary among the Illinois . Writing " Aux Illinois , " six leagues from Fort Chartres , June Sth , 1750 , Vivier says : " We ...
Page 45
... gives us no one to look to , as knowing the circumstances . Of the Boston expedition we know still less ; the story is ... give England no claim to the West , for he made no settlement , and the whole Ohio valley had doubtless long be ...
... gives us no one to look to , as knowing the circumstances . Of the Boston expedition we know still less ; the story is ... give England no claim to the West , for he made no settlement , and the whole Ohio valley had doubtless long be ...
Page 61
... give less than ten thousand pounds , and others would not give more than five thousand pounds ; and so , nothing being practicable , they adjourned upon the 10th of April until the 13th of May . || Sparks ' Franklin , vol . iii . pp ...
... give less than ten thousand pounds , and others would not give more than five thousand pounds ; and so , nothing being practicable , they adjourned upon the 10th of April until the 13th of May . || Sparks ' Franklin , vol . iii . pp ...
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... give large openings for rivalry and conflict ; but among the results of the measure was the resignation of Washington , who for a time , retired to Mount Vernon . * It was now the fall of 1754. In Pennsylvania , Morris , who had ...
... give large openings for rivalry and conflict ; but among the results of the measure was the resignation of Washington , who for a time , retired to Mount Vernon . * It was now the fall of 1754. In Pennsylvania , Morris , who had ...
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