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 |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 92
Page 26
... told ; " we will have their blood , all that are of that party shall die , " said these malcontents . So , when M. Moranget and the rest had supped and fallen asleep , Liotot the surgeon took an axe , and with few strokes killed them ...
... told ; " we will have their blood , all that are of that party shall die , " said these malcontents . So , when M. Moranget and the rest had supped and fallen asleep , Liotot the surgeon took an axe , and with few strokes killed them ...
Page 38
... told . Most of the French till the soil ; they raise wheat , cattle , pigs and horses , and live like princes . Three times as much is produced as can be consumed ; and great quantities of grain and flour are sent to New Orleans . " In ...
... told . Most of the French till the soil ; they raise wheat , cattle , pigs and horses , and live like princes . Three times as much is produced as can be consumed ; and great quantities of grain and flour are sent to New Orleans . " In ...
Page 43
... told by Dr. Coxe , that , from the year 1654 to the year 1664 , one " Colonel Wood in Virginia , inhabiting at the Falls of James river , above a hundred miles west of Chesapeake Bay , discovered at several times , several branches of ...
... told by Dr. Coxe , that , from the year 1654 to the year 1664 , one " Colonel Wood in Virginia , inhabiting at the Falls of James river , above a hundred miles west of Chesapeake Bay , discovered at several times , several branches of ...
Page 46
... told of the Iroquois or Mohawks ; and the Mingoes of the Ohio are almost always spoken of as a tribe . We have used the terms " Six Nations , " and " Iroquois , " and now and then " Mingoes , " always meaning the whole confederacy . .6 ...
... told of the Iroquois or Mohawks ; and the Mingoes of the Ohio are almost always spoken of as a tribe . We have used the terms " Six Nations , " and " Iroquois , " and now and then " Mingoes , " always meaning the whole confederacy . .6 ...
Page 51
... told , a trading - house was built by the English , upon the Great Miami , at the spot since called Loramie's Store ; || while , from another source we learn , that two * Pownall's Memorial . + Ibid . Representations to Earl of ...
... told , a trading - house was built by the English , upon the Great Miami , at the spot since called Loramie's Store ; || while , from another source we learn , that two * Pownall's Memorial . + Ibid . Representations to Earl of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acres American Pioneer American State Papers April army attack August bank Boone Brant British Butler Captain chiefs Chillicothe Cincinnati Clair Clark Colonel colony command commenced commissioners Company Congress council Creek Delawares Detroit enemy English Erie expedition fire Fort McIntosh Fort Pitt Fort Washington France French frontier Governor Harmar Harrison hostile hundred Illinois Indians Iroquois January Journal July June Kaskaskia Kentucky killed Lake Lake Erie lands letter Logstown Lord Dunmore Louisiana March Maumee McAfee Miami miles militia Mississippi mouth Muskingum October officers Ohio Ohio Company Orleans party peace Pennsylvania Piankeshaws Pittsburgh present proposed purchase reached river Salle savages says sent September settlement settlers Shawanese Simon Girty Sir William Johnson Six Nations Sparks Symmes taken territory tion took town treaty tribes troops United village Vincennes Virginia Wabash warriors Washington Wayne West western whole Wilkinson Wyandots