A History of the Valley of VirginiaHeritage Books, 2009 - 416 страници If you'd like to know more about the history of Native Americans and early American settlers, this book is for you. Written not long after the Revolutionary War, the author was himself a young eyewitness to the life and times described, and the weight of |
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... probably about the year 1736. The Delawares had penetrated pretty * Cohongoruton is the ancient Indian name of the Potomac from its junction with the Shenandoah to the Alleghany mountain . Lord Fairfax , in his grants for land on this ...
... probably about the year 1736. The Delawares had penetrated pretty * Cohongoruton is the ancient Indian name of the Potomac from its junction with the Shenandoah to the Alleghany mountain . Lord Fairfax , in his grants for land on this ...
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... probably , to represent a man bleeding to death . The stain , it appeared to the author , was made with human blocd . The top of the rock projects over the painted part so as to protect it from the washings of the rains , and is on the ...
... probably , to represent a man bleeding to death . The stain , it appeared to the author , was made with human blocd . The top of the rock projects over the painted part so as to protect it from the washings of the rains , and is on the ...
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... miles below the mouth of Conococheague on or near the Potomac , on the Maryland side . † Mr. G. Blue . of Hampshire , stated this tradition to the author . At an immense distance apart , * probably little less INDIAN WARS .
... miles below the mouth of Conococheague on or near the Potomac , on the Maryland side . † Mr. G. Blue . of Hampshire , stated this tradition to the author . At an immense distance apart , * probably little less INDIAN WARS .
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... probably one principal cause of the wars frequently carried on by people in a state of nature . * The Catawba tribes reside on the river of that name in South Carolina . They were a powerful and warlike nation , but are now reduced to ...
... probably one principal cause of the wars frequently carried on by people in a state of nature . * The Catawba tribes reside on the river of that name in South Carolina . They were a powerful and warlike nation , but are now reduced to ...
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... probably containing many hundreds of human bodies , and were doubtless the work of ages . * On the land of Mr. Noah Keyser , near the mouth of the Hawks- bill Creek , stand the remains of a large mound . This , like that of Mr ...
... probably containing many hundreds of human bodies , and were doubtless the work of ages . * On the land of Mr. Noah Keyser , near the mouth of the Hawks- bill Creek , stand the remains of a large mound . This , like that of Mr ...
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