The Ohio and Mississippi Pilot, Consisting of a Set of Charts of Those Rivers ...R. Patterson & Lambdin, 1851 - 262 sider |
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... received by the natives , who presented them very kindly with what the journal calls ' green tobacco , ' and also with dried cur- rants ; [ these were probably whortleberries , ] which are represented as having been found in great ...
... received by the natives , who presented them very kindly with what the journal calls ' green tobacco , ' and also with dried cur- rants ; [ these were probably whortleberries , ] which are represented as having been found in great ...
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J. C. Gilleland. received the name of Colman's Point ; and which , probably , was the same that is now called Sandy Hook . " On the 8th , 9th and 10th days of September , Hudson still rode cautiously at anchor , without the Narrows , and ...
J. C. Gilleland. received the name of Colman's Point ; and which , probably , was the same that is now called Sandy Hook . " On the 8th , 9th and 10th days of September , Hudson still rode cautiously at anchor , without the Narrows , and ...
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... received the name of New Netherlands . ” — Hist . Discourse by Samuel Miller , D. D. , vol . i . Coll . New York Hist . Soc . t In 1621 , " the Privileged West India Company " was formed in Holland ; this company in 1623 began its ...
... received the name of New Netherlands . ” — Hist . Discourse by Samuel Miller , D. D. , vol . i . Coll . New York Hist . Soc . t In 1621 , " the Privileged West India Company " was formed in Holland ; this company in 1623 began its ...
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... received in New York . Andros , the tyrant of New Eng- land , was seized at Boston . Jacob Leisler , with forty - nine men , seized the fort at New York , and held it for the protestant king and queen of England . Leisler's assumption ...
... received in New York . Andros , the tyrant of New Eng- land , was seized at Boston . Jacob Leisler , with forty - nine men , seized the fort at New York , and held it for the protestant king and queen of England . Leisler's assumption ...
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... received from Governor Bur- net the seal of the province , and assumed the government . His short administration , terminated by his death in 1731 , was one of tranquillity , and not distinguished by any important event . During his ...
... received from Governor Bur- net the seal of the province , and assumed the government . His short administration , terminated by his death in 1731 , was one of tranquillity , and not distinguished by any important event . During his ...
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100 dwellings academy Albany Allegany American army arrived artillery attack bank battle boat Brant British building Burgoyne Canandaigua Capt Cattaraugus Cayuga Center Chautauque Chemung Chenango church Clinton Colonel colony command commenced contains creek Delaware distance Dutch Dutchess East enemy enemy's English erected Erie canal Falls feet fire Fort Edward French Fulton Genesee Genesee river governor harbor Herkimer Hill Hudson hundred incorporated Indians inhabitants Jefferson killed Lake Lake Champlain Lake Ontario land Lawrence Lieut Livingston Long Island miles militia mills Mohawk Niagara night officers Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orange Oswego Otsego party Point Presbyterian principal prisoners Putnam Rensselaer river Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie Schuyler Seneca settlement shore side Sir William Johnson situated Steuben Suffolk Sullivan taken tion Tompkins took town troops Tryon county Ulster Utica valley vessels village Washington West Westchester Whitestown whole William wounded York
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Side 19 - Higansets, abutting upon .the main land between the two rivers, there called or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's river; together also with the said river called Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay.
Side 381 - ... of Sleepy Hollow, the headless horseman, who had been heard several times of late patrolling the country, and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard. The sequestered situation of this church seems always to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits.
Side 179 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you : I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Side 161 - Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed incontestable symptoms of disapprobation and uneasiness at being surprised by a visit from a neighbor on such occasions. But though our worthy ancestors were thus singularly averse to giving dinners, yet they kept up the social bands of intimacy by occasional banquetings, called tea parties.
Side 264 - Change the milk-and-water style of your last memorial. Assume a bolder tone, decent, but lively, spirited, and determined ; and suspect the man, who would advise to more moderation and longer forbearance.
Side 314 - During the stay of the troops in Massachusetts Bay, the officers are to be admitted on parole, and are to be allowed to wear their side arms.
Side 375 - When I was a child, I played with the butterfly, the grasshopper and the frogs; and as I grew up, I began to pay some attention and play with the Indian boys in the neighborhood, and they took notice of my skin being a different color from theirs, and spoke about it. I inquired of my mother the cause, and she told me that my father was a residenter in Albany, t I still eat my victuals out of a bark dish.
Side 321 - ... her to go over to her husband, to do which she would certainly obtain permission, and then she could attend him herself; she was a charming woman, and very fond of him. I spent much of the night in comforting her, and then went again to my children, whom I had put to bed. I could not go to sleep, as I had General Frazer and all the other wounded gentlemen in my room, and I was sadly afraid my children would awake, and by their crying disturb the dying man in his last moments, who often addressed...
Side 161 - The tea was served out of a majestic delft tea-pot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs — with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies.
Side 205 - ... Lake Erie, is intended to indicate and commemorate the navigable communication which has been accomplished between our mediterranean seas and the Atlantic Ocean in about eight years, to the extent of more than four hundred, and twenty-five miles, by the wisdom, public spirit, and energy of the people of the State of New York ; and may the God of the heavens and the earth smile most propitiously on this work, and render it subservient to the best interests of the human race.