A History of the Platter Family from about Year Sixteen Hundred to the Present Time

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D.E. Planter, 1919 - 84 էջ
 

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Էջ 20 - Houseman, his heirs and assigns, forever free and clear of all restrictions and reservations as to Mines, Royalties, Quit-rents, or otherwise, excepting and reserving, only the fifth part of all Gold and Silver Ore, for the use of this Commonwealth, to be delivered at the Pitts Mouth, clear of all charges.
Էջ 20 - ... which goods I have never received, and have long since declined to have, for reasons made known to you at the time. With regard to the other items, viz.
Էջ 28 - ... keep up with him, parted from me soon after we left Allen's. At two miles from thence I came to Brush Creek (at Sproull's), a beautiful river about sixty yards wide. A new State road crosses the river here, but as I had been informed that there was no house on it for ten miles, I preferred keeping up the bank of the river on the stage road, which led through a beautiful but narrow unsettled bottom, with Brush Creek on the right, and a steep, craggy precipice on the left, for a mile and a half....
Էջ 59 - The large concourse of neighbors and friends that followed him to his grave bore testimony to the esteem in which he was held by the people among whom he had lived for so many years.
Էջ 20 - To have and to hold the said Tract or parcel of land with the appurtenances unto the said...
Էջ 22 - Soldiers who received Depreciation Pay as per cancelled Certificates on File in the Division of Public Records, Pennsylvania State Library, p.
Էջ 28 - My equestrian companion finding that I did not walk fast enough to keep up with him, parted from me soon after we left Allen's. At two miles from thence I came to Brush Creek (at Sproull's), a beautiful river about sixty yards wide. A new State road crosses the river here, but as I had been informed that there was no house on it for ten miles, I preferred keeping up the bank of the river on the stage road, which led through a beautiful but narrow unsettled bottom, with Brush Creek on the right, and...
Էջ 11 - God has granted me the honour, so that in so widely famous a city as Basel I have taught school according to my power now for thirty-one years in the next highest school to the University, wherein many noblemen's sons have been instructed, in which now many doctors or otherwise learned men have been...
Էջ 25 - Character of the Pioneers. The pioneers of Adams County as a class were honorable and moral men and women. They represented some of the best families of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland. New Jersey and the Carolinas. They were a hardy, industrious, and frugal people, who had come determined to make a home for themselves and their generations in the great Northwest. They were the daring, spirited and brave element of the older settlements east of the Alleghenies.
Էջ 40 - White was an officer in the Union army during the Civil war. After the war his occupation was that of a contractor and builder.

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