The States and Territories of the Great West ...: Their Geography, History, Resources ...Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856 - 352 էջ |
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... Fort Chartres - Manufac- ture of flour in the Wabash country The adaptation of the Indian manners , etc. , by the ... forts The Rangers at Cleveland Visit from Pontiac- delivered to the English , CHAPTER VI . 73 Manner of trading with ...
... Fort Chartres - Manufac- ture of flour in the Wabash country The adaptation of the Indian manners , etc. , by the ... forts The Rangers at Cleveland Visit from Pontiac- delivered to the English , CHAPTER VI . 73 Manner of trading with ...
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... fort at De- troit - Pontiac inspects the fort during a calumet danco - Pontiac's conspiracy on the fort at Detroit defeated -- A general destruc- tion of the forts and settlements by the Indians - Stratagems of the game of ball between ...
... fort at De- troit - Pontiac inspects the fort during a calumet danco - Pontiac's conspiracy on the fort at Detroit defeated -- A general destruc- tion of the forts and settlements by the Indians - Stratagems of the game of ball between ...
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... Fort Riley to Missouri border- Military roads - Climate of Kansas Nebraska , CHAPTER XIX . 304 KANSAS . Its history and politics . . • 325 CHAPTER XX . Aid societies and preemptions . • 339 TABLE OF DISTANCES , Viâ the principal ...
... Fort Riley to Missouri border- Military roads - Climate of Kansas Nebraska , CHAPTER XIX . 304 KANSAS . Its history and politics . . • 325 CHAPTER XX . Aid societies and preemptions . • 339 TABLE OF DISTANCES , Viâ the principal ...
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... forts , and several years before Elliot , the Puritan missionary , had spoken to the Indians in the vicinity of Boston harbor , the Jesuits had planted the Cross at Sault Ste . Marie , and were preparing to descend into the valley of ...
... forts , and several years before Elliot , the Puritan missionary , had spoken to the Indians in the vicinity of Boston harbor , the Jesuits had planted the Cross at Sault Ste . Marie , and were preparing to descend into the valley of ...
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... fort , as an additional security against the danger of being again dislodged by their enemies . There they have remained to this day . The mission of St. Ignatius , at Michilimackinac , was founded in the summer of 1672 . And it was ...
... fort , as an additional security against the danger of being again dislodged by their enemies . There they have remained to this day . The mission of St. Ignatius , at Michilimackinac , was founded in the summer of 1672 . And it was ...
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Էջ 256 - That the legislative power of the territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Էջ 157 - No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Էջ 157 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Էջ 157 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Էջ 343 - ... if any person taking such oath shall swear falsely in the premises, he shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury, and shall forfeit the money which he may have paid for said...
Էջ 127 - Through an aperture which afforded me a view of the area of the fort I beheld, in shapes the foulest and most terrible, the ferocious triumphs of barbarian conquerors. The dead were scalped and mangled; the dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood, scooped up in the hollow of joined hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory.
Էջ 295 - There are often found beneath the water pieces of copper, all formed, and of the weight of ten and twenty pounds. I have seen them many times in the hands of the savages...
Էջ 295 - On the 19th of August [1765] we reached the mouth of the river Ontonagan, one of the largest on the south side of the lake. At the mouth was an Indian village; and at three leagues above a fall, at the foot of which sturgeon were at this season so abundant that a month's subsistence for a regiment could have been taken in a few hours.
Էջ 336 - If any person shall entice, decoy or carry away out of this territory any slave belonging to another, with intent to deprive the owner thereof of the services of such slave, or with intent to...
Էջ 341 - That from and after the passage of this act, every person being the head of a family, or widow, or single man, over the age of twenty-one years, and being a citizen of the United States, or having filed his declaration of intention to become a citizen, as required by the naturalization laws...