Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania: Containing a Copious Selection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Relating to Its History and Antiquities, Both General and Local, with Topographical Descriptions of Every County and All the Larger Towns in the StateG. W. Gorton, 1843 - 708 頁 |
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... head of Philadelphia Co. , he omitted to insert a short biographical notice of John Fitch , the original , but unfortunate inventor of steamboats . In 1788 he started a boat on the Delaware , which went to Burlington at the rate of ...
... head of Philadelphia Co. , he omitted to insert a short biographical notice of John Fitch , the original , but unfortunate inventor of steamboats . In 1788 he started a boat on the Delaware , which went to Burlington at the rate of ...
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... head waters of the Allegheny , Susquehanna , and Delaware rivers . This territory they styled their long house . The grand council - fire was held in the Onondaga valley . The Senecas guarded the western door of the house , the Mohawks ...
... head waters of the Allegheny , Susquehanna , and Delaware rivers . This territory they styled their long house . The grand council - fire was held in the Onondaga valley . The Senecas guarded the western door of the house , the Mohawks ...
第 26 頁
... head of three hundred men , crossed the Allegheny Mountains and cut off the Indian town of Kittanning . This drove the hostile Indians beyond the Allegheny river . In the following year the assembly again yielded to the pressure of the ...
... head of three hundred men , crossed the Allegheny Mountains and cut off the Indian town of Kittanning . This drove the hostile Indians beyond the Allegheny river . In the following year the assembly again yielded to the pressure of the ...
第 32 頁
... head of Luzerne county . The strife between the Connecticut men and the Pennsylvanian claim- ants annoyed the Moravian Indian settlement at Wyalusing , on the Sus- quehanna , and caused them to remove in a body to the Ohio , near Beaver ...
... head of Luzerne county . The strife between the Connecticut men and the Pennsylvanian claim- ants annoyed the Moravian Indian settlement at Wyalusing , on the Sus- quehanna , and caused them to remove in a body to the Ohio , near Beaver ...
第 36 頁
... head of the army . A post - office department was organized , at the head of which Benjamin Franklin was placed . The assembly of Pennsylvania immediately took measures to raise the four thousand three hundred men apportioned to the ...
... head of the army . A post - office department was organized , at the head of which Benjamin Franklin was placed . The assembly of Pennsylvania immediately took measures to raise the four thousand three hundred men apportioned to the ...
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