Annals of the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County, Volume 1The Association, 1880 - Cuyahoga County (Ohio) |
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... soon began to colonize , at various points , the wilds of the New World . Our Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock . A series of small colonies soon dotted the New England coast . Among these was the colony of New Haven , a colony ...
... soon began to colonize , at various points , the wilds of the New World . Our Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock . A series of small colonies soon dotted the New England coast . Among these was the colony of New Haven , a colony ...
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... Soon after this Charles II . died and was succeeded by James II . , who did not sympathize with the New Haven colonists or approve the extravagant grant which they had received from his royal predecessor . He therefore demanded a ...
... Soon after this Charles II . died and was succeeded by James II . , who did not sympathize with the New Haven colonists or approve the extravagant grant which they had received from his royal predecessor . He therefore demanded a ...
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... soon followed by the establish- ment of French and English trading posts and military forts at different points along the great chain of our northwestern lakes . Then came missionary efforts to christianize the natives , followed by the ...
... soon followed by the establish- ment of French and English trading posts and military forts at different points along the great chain of our northwestern lakes . Then came missionary efforts to christianize the natives , followed by the ...
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... soon cease to be an object of terror to him . So far as physical causes can operate , his character can be subjected in only a com- paratively slight degree to novel influences . But our own pioneers were subject to other conditions ...
... soon cease to be an object of terror to him . So far as physical causes can operate , his character can be subjected in only a com- paratively slight degree to novel influences . But our own pioneers were subject to other conditions ...
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... soon came in and reported to us that his brother William had called on him and complained that he , the captain , would ruin him by collecting that judg ment . He told us that he replied to his brother that he did not wish to injure him ...
... soon came in and reported to us that his brother William had called on him and complained that he , the captain , would ruin him by collecting that judg ment . He told us that he replied to his brother that he did not wish to injure him ...
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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.