Illinois in the Eighteenth Century: Kaskaskia and Its Parish Records, Old Fort Chartres, and Col. John Todds RecordbookFergus Printing Company, 1881 - 68 páginas |
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Página 50 - All the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia "who are already settled or shall hereafter settle on the western side of the Ohio, shall be included in a distinct county, which shall be called Illinois county...
Página 58 - ... unless in manner and form of settlements as heretofore made by the French inhabitants, until further orders herein given. "And in order that all the claims to lands in said county may be fully known, and some method provided for perpetuating by record the just claims, every inhabitant is required as soon as conveniently may be, to lay before the person in each district appointed...
Página 58 - Sentence you are hereby required to put in execution on tuesday next at 9 o'clock in the morning, and this shall be your warrant. Given under my hand and seal at Kaskaskia the 131)1 day of June, in the third year of the Commonwealth.
Página 62 - Kaskaskia are, for the last time, invited to contract with the persons appointed for provision, especially " flower," for the troops who will shortly arrive. He says, " I hope they will use properly the indulgence of a mild Government. If I shall be obliged to give the military permission to press it will be a disadvantage, and what ought more to influence Freemen, it will be a dishonor to the people.
Página 47 - ... uninjured. You may note the arched stone roof, the careful construction of the heavy walls, and the few small apertures for light and air, curiously protected against injury from without. Here one may invoke the shades of Makarty, and De Villiers, and St. Ange, and easily bring back the past. For, as it is to-day, it has seen them all, as they went to and fro before it, or examined its store of shot and shell ; it has heard the word of command as the grenadiers drilled on the parade ground hard...
Página 51 - But if unhappily it should be lost, a return of the same attachments to us may never happen. Considering therefore that early prejudices are so hard to wear out you will take care to cultivate and conciliate the affections of the French and Indians.
Página 33 - And these animals', he says, are covered with a species of wool, sufficiently fine to be employed in various manufactories'. And he further suggests, and doubtless correctly, that the buffalo, 'if caught, and attached to the plough would move it at a speed superior to that of the domestic ox'.
Página 58 - Negro Manuel, a Slave, in your Custody, is condemned by the Court of Kaskaskia, after having made honorable Fine at the Door of the Church, to be chained to a post at the water side & there to be burnt alive, & his ashes scattered, as appears to me by Record.
Página 4 - ... good Father St. Cosme, as appears from a map made a little more than one hundred years ago, which gives both names, Cinqhommes and St. Cosme, to this very bluff. It probably is the identical one which he ascended, and he could not have spoken of the cross as unknown in those regions, had there then been any settlement so near the spot as the Kaskaskia we now know. Tonti, who was the leader of this party, is thought by some to have founded Kaskaskia in 1686. Nobler founder could no town have had...