Annals of the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County, Volume 1The Association, 1880 - Cuyahoga County (Ohio) |
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... organized fraternity , have attempted to hold . While we who are early settlers have been busy in our time , time has been busy with us , and has crowned the heads of most of us with the silvery frostwork of age . The crown is one of ...
... organized fraternity , have attempted to hold . While we who are early settlers have been busy in our time , time has been busy with us , and has crowned the heads of most of us with the silvery frostwork of age . The crown is one of ...
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... organized , published the scheme and sold a few tickets for five dollars each ; but no drawing ever occurred , and finally , in after years , the money but without interest was graciously refunded to such of the ticket holders as had ...
... organized , published the scheme and sold a few tickets for five dollars each ; but no drawing ever occurred , and finally , in after years , the money but without interest was graciously refunded to such of the ticket holders as had ...
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... organized the meeting by appoint- ing Hon . John W. Allen chairman , and H. M. Addison secretary , and after a free discussion and interchange of views relative to the object of the meeting , adopted the follow- ing constitution ...
... organized the meeting by appoint- ing Hon . John W. Allen chairman , and H. M. Addison secretary , and after a free discussion and interchange of views relative to the object of the meeting , adopted the follow- ing constitution ...
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... organized for a gener- ́ous purpose , and especially for the social enjoyment its oppor- tunities afford . In the venerable assemblage I see before me I recognize many who are crowned with the silvery honors of age , stand- ing , as it ...
... organized for a gener- ́ous purpose , and especially for the social enjoyment its oppor- tunities afford . In the venerable assemblage I see before me I recognize many who are crowned with the silvery honors of age , stand- ing , as it ...
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... organized , let us cast about to make it as efficient as possible . How shall this be done ? The peculiarities of men - a record of their good deeds and their bad - may be preserved in our books as samples to adopt or shun ; whatever ...
... organized , let us cast about to make it as efficient as possible . How shall this be done ? The peculiarities of men - a record of their good deeds and their bad - may be preserved in our books as samples to adopt or shun ; whatever ...
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Page 31 - The western state in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by the said territorial line to the lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Page 33 - Bay, where the said river falleth into the sea ; and on the north by the line of the Massachusetts plantation ; and on the south by the sea; and in longitude as the line of the Massachusetts colony, running from east to west, that is to say, from the said Narraganset Bay on the east, to the south sea on the west part, with the islands thereunto adjoining...
Page 32 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Page 51 - Logan, not sparing even my women and children. 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.
Page 48 - ... no man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land...
Page 19 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence.
Page 33 - We have given Granted and Confirmed and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors do give Grant and Confirm unto...
Page 18 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 27 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 16 - Hail, Columbia ! happy land ! Hail, ye heroes, heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause; And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies. Firm united let us be, Rallying round our liberty! As a band of brothers joined, Peace and safety we shall find.