The History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties [Pennsylvania]: Containing a Brief History of the First Settlers, Notices of the Leading Events, Incidents and Interesting Facts, Both General and Local, in the History of These Counties, General & Statistical Descriptions of All the Principal Boroughs, Towns, Villages, &c., with an Appendix ... Comp. from Numerous Authentic SourcesG. Hills, 1846 - 606 頁 |
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第 28 頁
... taken with the least possible injury to the aborigines . The land was purchased from the natives . Belknap says , " it was a common thing in New England to make fair and regular purcha- ses ; " many of their deeds are still preserved in ...
... taken with the least possible injury to the aborigines . The land was purchased from the natives . Belknap says , " it was a common thing in New England to make fair and regular purcha- ses ; " many of their deeds are still preserved in ...
第 43 頁
... taken from John Stedman . Our Legislature was also petitioned , and a law was passed , and good as it is , never was executed . Mr. Spaffort , an old , poor captain , was made overseer of the vessels loaded with passengers , whose ...
... taken from John Stedman . Our Legislature was also petitioned , and a law was passed , and good as it is , never was executed . Mr. Spaffort , an old , poor captain , was made overseer of the vessels loaded with passengers , whose ...
第 44 頁
... thing to sell of their spare clothes - neither had they clothes so as to change linens , & c . , they were not able to keep themselves clean , and free of vermin . If they were taken into houses , and trusting on 44 . INTRODUCTION .
... thing to sell of their spare clothes - neither had they clothes so as to change linens , & c . , they were not able to keep themselves clean , and free of vermin . If they were taken into houses , and trusting on 44 . INTRODUCTION .
第 45 頁
... taken into houses , and trusting on their ef- fects and money , when they come , these effects and moneys were either left behind , or their chests were either plundered by the sailors on the vessels , or if the vessels arrived before ...
... taken into houses , and trusting on their ef- fects and money , when they come , these effects and moneys were either left behind , or their chests were either plundered by the sailors on the vessels , or if the vessels arrived before ...
第 56 頁
... come and see the votes read , and an account taken of them , but he refused , & c . The whole matter was investigated - the sheriff was called before the Assembly , publicly admonished by the speaker , 56 INTRODUCTION .
... come and see the votes read , and an account taken of them , but he refused , & c . The whole matter was investigated - the sheriff was called before the Assembly , publicly admonished by the speaker , 56 INTRODUCTION .
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第 537 頁 - ... to be determined by a meridian line to be drawn from the head of the said river, unto the said forty-third degree.
第 416 頁 - By that instrument it was determined — "that in memory of the great and important services rendered to his country, by his Excellency, John Dickinson, Esquire, President of the Supreme Executive Council, and in commemoration of his very liberal donation to the institution, the said college, shall be forever hereafter called and known by the name of Dickinson College.
第 93 頁 - sa very sorrowful spectacle to see those that escaped with their lives with not a mouthful to eat, or bed to lie on, or clothes to cover their nakedness, or keep them warm, but all they had consumed into ashes. These deplorable circumstances cry aloud for your...
第 26 頁 - It is a clear and just thing, and my God that has given it me through many difficulties, will, I believe, bless and make it the seed of a nation. I shall have a tender care to the government, that it be well laid at first.
第 26 頁 - Sylvania, and they added Penn to it; and though I much opposed it, and went to the King to have it struck out and altered, he said it was past, and would take it upon him; nor could twenty guineas move the...
第 166 頁 - Burgess, and being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, did depose and say, that in...
第 338 頁 - He seemed to be sincere, honest, and conscientious in his own way, and according to his own religious notions ; which was more than I ever saw in any other Pagan. I perceived that he was looked upon and derided among most of the Indians, as a precise zealot, who made a needless noise about religious matters ; but I must say...
第 338 頁 - Now that I like : so God has taught me," &c. And some of his sentiments seemed very just. Yet he utterly denied the being of a devil, and declared there was no such \\ creature known among the Indians of old times, whose religion he supposed he was attempting to revive. He likewise told me, that departed souls all went southward, and that the difference between the good and...
第 335 頁 - ... sometimes raised the flame to a prodigious height, at the same time yelling and shouting in such a manner that they might easily have been heard two miles or more. They continued their sacred dance all night, or near the matter; after which they ate the flesh of the sacrifice, and so retired each one to his lodging.