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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Страница ix
... raising staple commodities , the chief officers out to set examples , and to aim at the establishment of the colony : " Chief officers that have tenants reprimanded for taking fees ; but require that the clerks have fees set for passes ...
... raising staple commodities , the chief officers out to set examples , and to aim at the establishment of the colony : " Chief officers that have tenants reprimanded for taking fees ; but require that the clerks have fees set for passes ...
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... raised 30 , or mote men , & pursu'd those Indians 20 miles up & 4 miles over that river into Maryland , where landing at dawn of day , they found two small paths each leader with his party a separ- ate path and in less than a furlong ...
... raised 30 , or mote men , & pursu'd those Indians 20 miles up & 4 miles over that river into Maryland , where landing at dawn of day , they found two small paths each leader with his party a separ- ate path and in less than a furlong ...
Страница xvi
... raised their quota's of a thousand men , upon whose coming before the ffort , the Indians sent out 4 of their great men , who ask'd the reason of that hostile appearance , what they said more or offered I do not remember to have heard ...
... raised their quota's of a thousand men , upon whose coming before the ffort , the Indians sent out 4 of their great men , who ask'd the reason of that hostile appearance , what they said more or offered I do not remember to have heard ...
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... raised an uproar ; one party urging hard " it had been customary and ought not to be omitted ; " whereto Mr. Presley my neighbor an old assembly man , sitting next me , rose up , and [ in a blundering manner replied ] " tis true , it ...
... raised an uproar ; one party urging hard " it had been customary and ought not to be omitted ; " whereto Mr. Presley my neighbor an old assembly man , sitting next me , rose up , and [ in a blundering manner replied ] " tis true , it ...
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... raise the militia and so to dispose things as to prevent his friends from gathering any more into a like numerous body and coming down . a second time to save him . In three or ffour dais after his escape , upon news that Mr. Bacon was ...
... raise the militia and so to dispose things as to prevent his friends from gathering any more into a like numerous body and coming down . a second time to save him . In three or ffour dais after his escape , upon news that Mr. Bacon was ...
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