| Historical Society of Schuylkill County - 1911 - 314 頁
...who have lived longer in it, being but lately come among us. I have not far to go for an instance ; this very ground that is under me (striking it with...land lying between Tohiccon creek and Wyoming on the Susquehanna river. I have not only been served so in this government, but the same thing has been done... | |
| George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - 562 頁
...what land sales had been unjust, he said, with much warmth : "I have not far to go for an Instance ; this very Ground that is under me (striking it with...mean all the Land lying between Tohiccon Creek and Wioming, on the River Susquehannah. I have not only been served so in this Government, but the same... | |
| Chester Hale Sipe - 1927 - 582 頁
...his foot upon the ground and made the following heated reply: "I have not far to go for an instance; this very ground that is under me [striking it with...and inheritance, and is taken from me by fraud. When 1 say this ground, 1 mean all the land lying between Tohiccon Creek and Wyoming, on the River Susquehannah.... | |
| Oscar Jewell Harvey - 1909 - 722 頁
...the English had defrauded them of their lands. He continued : "I have not far to go for an instance. This very ground that is under me (striking it with...Tohiccon Creek* and Wyoming on the River Susquehanna. I have not only been served so in this Government, but the same thing has been done to me as to several... | |
| Francis Jennings - 1990 - 552 頁
...Pennsylvania's government or others? "I have not far to go for an Instance," responded Teedyuscung; "this very ground that is under me (striking it with...was my Land and Inheritance, and is taken from me by fraud."79 Thus rose the long-haunting spectre of the Walking Purchase of 1737, and it so frightened... | |
| Francis Jennings - 1996 - 248 頁
...Teedyuscung did not hesitate, or equivocate. "I have not far to go for an Instance," he responded, "this very ground that is under me (striking it with...was my Land and Inheritance, and is taken from me by fraud."14 Thus returned the ghost of the Walking Purchase to confirm Quaker suspicions of mistreatment... | |
| Beth Fowkes Tobin - 1999 - 324 頁
...Delawares, Teedyuscung, a Delaware chief treating at Easton in 1756 with the colonial government, responded: "this very ground that is under me (striking it with...Land and Inheritance, and is taken from me by fraud." Detailing the various forms of frauds, Teedyuscung explained how the sons of William Penn "forge[d]... | |
| 408 頁
...twenty years earlier; during the speech, he allegedly exclaimed, "This very Ground that is under me was my Land and Inheritance, and is taken from me by Fraud." Both sides agreed to a truce, provided that the whole matter of the land purchase would be investigated.... | |
| Evan T. Pritchard - 2002 - 504 頁
...wrongdoing]! This very ground under me (striking it with his foot) was my land by inheritance, and it is taken from me by fraud. When I say 'this' ground,...Tohiccon Creek and Wyoming, on the river Susquehanna! I have not only been served so in this government, but the same thing has been done to me as to several... | |
| Scott L. Pratt - 2002 - 342 頁
...response, he says that he did not need to go far for an example of the primary cause of the Native attacks. "This very Ground, that is under me (striking it with...Land and Inheritance, and is taken from me by Fraud" (Van Doren and Boyd 1938, 157). The point, Teedyuscung says, is not that no land may be sold: "A Bargain... | |
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