History of Kent County, Michigan: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Michigan ...C. C. Chapman & Company, 1881 - 1426 էջ |
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... miles and breadth 400 miles , including the country where beavers and all sorts of wild game keeps , and the place called Tjeughsaghrondie alias Fort De Tret or Wawyachtenock [ Detroit ] , and so runs round the lake of Sweege till you ...
... miles and breadth 400 miles , including the country where beavers and all sorts of wild game keeps , and the place called Tjeughsaghrondie alias Fort De Tret or Wawyachtenock [ Detroit ] , and so runs round the lake of Sweege till you ...
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... miles away , and the route thither lay through the enemy's country . The next morning he heard Indian voices below informing Mr. Langlade that they had not found an Englishman named Henry among the dead , and that they believed him to ...
... miles away , and the route thither lay through the enemy's country . The next morning he heard Indian voices below informing Mr. Langlade that they had not found an Englishman named Henry among the dead , and that they believed him to ...
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... mile and a half away , but being delayed a day , Pontiac learned of his movements and prepared his men to contest his ... miles below Detroit for the night , when in the darkness about 300 Indians in canoes came quietly upon the vessel ...
... mile and a half away , but being delayed a day , Pontiac learned of his movements and prepared his men to contest his ... miles below Detroit for the night , when in the darkness about 300 Indians in canoes came quietly upon the vessel ...
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... miles , is ( with some few exceptions ) low , wet land , with a very thick growth of underbrush , intermixed with very bad marshes , but generally very heavily timbered with beech , cottonwood , oak , etc .; thence continuing north and ...
... miles , is ( with some few exceptions ) low , wet land , with a very thick growth of underbrush , intermixed with very bad marshes , but generally very heavily timbered with beech , cottonwood , oak , etc .; thence continuing north and ...
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... miles . The results of the expedition were : a more thorough knowledge of a vast region and of the numbers and disposition of the various tribes of Indians ; several important Indian treaties , by which val- uable lands were ceded to ...
... miles . The results of the expedition were : a more thorough knowledge of a vast region and of the numbers and disposition of the various tribes of Indians ; several important Indian treaties , by which val- uable lands were ceded to ...
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Էջ 281 - America, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Էջ 77 - Miami, aforesaid, and on the north by an east and west line, drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, or the territorial line, and thence with the same through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line...
Էջ 105 - This act shall not take effect in favor of any bank not subject to the act, entitled "an act to create a fund for the benefit of the creditors of certain moneyed corporations, and for other purposes...
Էջ 76 - Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said Territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan...
Էջ 69 - ... would not be more than one acre out of a hundred, if there would be one out of a thousand, that would in any case admit of cultivation.
Էջ 68 - ... and other places covered with a coarse, high grass, and uniformly covered from six inches to three feet (and more at times) with water. The margins of these lakes are not the only places where swamps are found, for they are interspersed throughout the whole country, and filled with water, as above stated, and varying in extent. The intermediate space between these swamps and lakes, which is probably near one-half of the country, is with a very few exceptions, a poor, barren, sandy land, on which...
Էջ 90 - The Legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an Agricultural School.
Էջ 36 - In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which John Randolph was chairman. He reported that this ordinance was a compact, and opposed repeal. Thus it stood a rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery.
Էջ 317 - Association is established to maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law, to increase its usefulness in promoting the due administration of justice, and to cultivate social intercourse among its members.
Էջ 35 - Jefferson's policy wanted to provide for the public credit, and this was a good opportunity to do something. Massachusetts then owned the territory of Maine, which she was crowding on the market. She was opposed to opening the northwestern region. This fired the zeal of Virginia. The South caught the inspiration, and all exalted Dr. Cutler.