Historical Collections of Ohio: Containing a Collection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Relating to Its General and Local History: with Descriptions of Its Counties, Principal Towns and Villages ; Illustrated by 177 EngravingsDerby, Bradley & Company, 1847 - 581 страници |
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... stands , and near where Treber's tavern is now situated , on the road from Chillicothe to Maysville . The Edgingtons had good success in hunting , having killed a number of deer and bears . Of the deer killed , they saved the skins and ...
... stands , and near where Treber's tavern is now situated , on the road from Chillicothe to Maysville . The Edgingtons had good success in hunting , having killed a number of deer and bears . Of the deer killed , they saved the skins and ...
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... stands on the summit of a high ridge , many hundred feet above the level of the Ohio . As early as 1815 , a ... stand in a pleasant area , shaded by locusts . The court house is a substantial stone building , and bears good testimony to ...
... stands on the summit of a high ridge , many hundred feet above the level of the Ohio . As early as 1815 , a ... stand in a pleasant area , shaded by locusts . The court house is a substantial stone building , and bears good testimony to ...
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... stand erect , moving cautiously from one ex- tremity to the other , in order to trim his vessel to the waves , well aware that a single lost stroke of the paddle , or a tottering movement , would swamp his frail bark and bring his ...
... stand erect , moving cautiously from one ex- tremity to the other , in order to trim his vessel to the waves , well aware that a single lost stroke of the paddle , or a tottering movement , would swamp his frail bark and bring his ...
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... stand the churches . It is surrounded by a fine and intelli- gent agricultural community . At this place is the Kingsville Acad- emy , a thriving institution , in good repute , with about 130 pupils , under the charge of Mr. Z. Graves ...
... stand the churches . It is surrounded by a fine and intelli- gent agricultural community . At this place is the Kingsville Acad- emy , a thriving institution , in good repute , with about 130 pupils , under the charge of Mr. Z. Graves ...
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... stand in a pleasant green . This institution has exerted a most beneficial influ- ence upon the morals and intelligence of this region . Among its graduates are many who do it honor , and it will , doubtless , when 曲 again in ...
... stand in a pleasant green . This institution has exerted a most beneficial influ- ence upon the morals and intelligence of this region . Among its graduates are many who do it honor , and it will , doubtless , when 曲 again in ...
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Страница 407 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Страница 407 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature.
Страница 92 - You always told us to remain here and take care of our lands; it made our hearts glad to hear that was your wish. Our great father, the king, is the head, and you represent him. You always told us...
Страница 548 - An old squaw, whose appearance every way answered the ideas people entertain of the devil, got a board, took a parcel of coals and ashes, and laid them on his back and head, after he had been scalped. He then raised himself upon his feet and began to walk around the post.
Страница 286 - Now it came to pass,' the same as in the Book of Mormon, and, according to the best of my recollection and belief, it is the same as my brother Solomon wrote, with the exception of the religious matter. — By what means it has fallen into the hands of Joseph Smith, Jr., I am unable to determine.
Страница 10 - Congress passed an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of these lands. Under that ordinance, the first seven ranges, bounded on the east by Pennsylvania, and on the south by the Ohio river, were surveyed. Sales of parts of these were made at New York, in 1787, the avails of which amounted to $72,974, and sales of other parts of said range were made at Pittsburg and Philadelphia, in 1796. The avails of sales made at the former place amounted to $43,446, and at the latter, $5,120. A portion...
Страница 409 - will you do now? The Big Knife is coming on us, and we shall all be killed. Now you must fight or we are undone.
Страница 507 - On the 2d of July a meeting of the directors and agents was held on the banks of the Muskingum, " for the purpose of naming the newborn city and its squares.
Страница 92 - Listen ! you told us at that time, to bring forward our families to this place, and we did so ; and you promised to take care of them, and they should want for nothing, while the men would go and fight the enemy ; that we need not trouble ourselves about the enemy's garrisons ; that we knew nothing about them, and that our father would attend to that part of the business. You also told your red children that you would take good care of your garrison here, which made our hearis glad.
Страница 548 - Crawford at this period of his suffering, besought the Almighty to have mercy on his soul, spoke very low, and bore his torments with the most manly fortitude. He continued in all the extremities of pain for an hour and...