The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Volumen 5,Números 2-4Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania., 1922 |
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... miles distant . After a stay of several weeks at Fort Pitt , the commissioners procceded to Fort McIntosh , where the Pennsylvania commissioners met them , and where the conference was finally held and the deeds granting the lands to ...
... miles distant . After a stay of several weeks at Fort Pitt , the commissioners procceded to Fort McIntosh , where the Pennsylvania commissioners met them , and where the conference was finally held and the deeds granting the lands to ...
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... mile distance . It is an irregular , poorly built place . The number of houses , mostly built of logs , about one hundred and fifty . The inhabitants ( perhaps because they lead too easy a life ) incline to be extravagant and lazy ...
... mile distance . It is an irregular , poorly built place . The number of houses , mostly built of logs , about one hundred and fifty . The inhabitants ( perhaps because they lead too easy a life ) incline to be extravagant and lazy ...
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... miles from the fort , on July 9 , 1775. Major Grant met a similar fate within the present city limits on September 15 , 1758. But the French seeing it impossible to resist the army advancing under General Forbes , set fire to the fort ...
... miles from the fort , on July 9 , 1775. Major Grant met a similar fate within the present city limits on September 15 , 1758. But the French seeing it impossible to resist the army advancing under General Forbes , set fire to the fort ...
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... miles of land , overlying the greater portion of the coal , anthracite and bituminous , on which the present pros- perity of the State is based . The price paid by the Penns to the Indians for this Golconda was $ 10,200.00 . ( 6 ) If ...
... miles of land , overlying the greater portion of the coal , anthracite and bituminous , on which the present pros- perity of the State is based . The price paid by the Penns to the Indians for this Golconda was $ 10,200.00 . ( 6 ) If ...
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... miles west of Northumberland Town . The surveyors noted on their maps- " This land Robert King has bought . " This was his first residence . He sold part of the tract in 1773 to David Emerick , who , with his wife , was captured there ...
... miles west of Northumberland Town . The surveyors noted on their maps- " This land Robert King has bought . " This was his first residence . He sold part of the tract in 1773 to David Emerick , who , with his wife , was captured there ...
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Página 303 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance; for my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 303 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 154 - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 303 - ... I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said, ' Logan is the friend of the white man.
Página 223 - I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by ; when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs.
Página 222 - As I had taken a good deal of notice yesterday of the situation at the Fork, my curiosity led me to examine this more particularly, and I think it greatly inferior, either for defence or advantages ; especially the latter.
Página 222 - Nature has well contrived this lower place for water defence; but the hill whereon it must stand being about a quarter of a mile in length, and then descending gradually on the land side, will render it difficult and very expensive to make a sufficient fortification there. The whole flat upon the hill must be taken in, the side next the descent made extremely high, or else the hill itself cut away: otherwise, the enemy may raise batteries within that distance without being exposed to a single shot...
Página 181 - DRAMA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1.
Página 223 - The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island on the ice in the morning,* and went to Mr. Frazier's.
Página 228 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.