Memoir of De Witt Clinton: With an Appendix, Containing Numerous Documents, Illustrative of the Principal Events of His Life, 1. köideJ. Seymour, 1829 - 530 pages |
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... French war , Mr. Clinton married Miss Mary De Witt , a young lady of extraordinary merit , whose ancestors had emigrated from Holland , and whose very name proclaims the high respectability of their connexions . After this event , Mr ...
... French war , Mr. Clinton married Miss Mary De Witt , a young lady of extraordinary merit , whose ancestors had emigrated from Holland , and whose very name proclaims the high respectability of their connexions . After this event , Mr ...
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... French government of Canada very early attempted to prevent our par- ticipation in the Indian trade , by their establishments on Lake Ontario , at Fort Frontinac in the year 1672 , and at Fort Niagara * See " Facts and Observations in ...
... French government of Canada very early attempted to prevent our par- ticipation in the Indian trade , by their establishments on Lake Ontario , at Fort Frontinac in the year 1672 , and at Fort Niagara * See " Facts and Observations in ...
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... French . This country of the Six Nations approached by the Onondaga and Seneca rivers , and Mud Creek , embraced the shores of the Genesee river , the Canandaigua , Seneca , Cayuga , and other small lakes , was the seat of a very ...
... French . This country of the Six Nations approached by the Onondaga and Seneca rivers , and Mud Creek , embraced the shores of the Genesee river , the Canandaigua , Seneca , Cayuga , and other small lakes , was the seat of a very ...
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... French , Spanish , and Latin languages , affording a fund of information important and inestimable . We also know that there are many interesting books and manuscripts relative to this country , in the library of the society for the ...
... French , Spanish , and Latin languages , affording a fund of information important and inestimable . We also know that there are many interesting books and manuscripts relative to this country , in the library of the society for the ...
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... French possessed Fort Dauphin , in the island of Madagascar , they raised excellent wheat . That station was deserted many years ago , and wheat to this day grows naturally among the grass in great vigour . In the country about Mount ...
... French possessed Fort Dauphin , in the island of Madagascar , they raised excellent wheat . That station was deserted many years ago , and wheat to this day grows naturally among the grass in great vigour . In the country about Mount ...
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Page 149 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 165 - I recognize in Lancaster the benefactor of the human race. I consider his system as creating a new era in education, as a blessing sent down from heaven to redeem the poor and distressed of this world from the power and dominion of ignorance.
Page 79 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 274 - I have lately made a tour through the Lakes George and Champlain, as far as Crown Point. Then returning to Schenectady, I proceeded up the Mohawk River to Fort Schuyler (formerly Fort Stanwix), and crossed over to the Wood Creek, which empties into the Oneida Lake, and affords the water communication with Ontario.
Page 164 - York for the education of such poor children as do not belong to, or are not provided for by, any religious society...
Page 279 - Not content then with the bare consciousness of my having in all this navigation business, acted upon the clearest conviction of the political importance of the measure, I would wish that every individual who may hear that it was a favorite plan of mine, may know, also, that I had no other motive for promoting it, than the advantage of which I conceived it would be productive to the Union at large, and to this State in particular, by cementing the Eastern and Western Territory together...
Page iv - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 275 - Prompted by these actual observations, I could not help taking a more extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others; and could not but be struck with the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand.
Page 278 - The Western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way.
Page 157 - I am happy to have it in my power to Say that my worthy friend Cap! Lewis is recovering fast, he walked a little to day for the first time, I have discontinued the tent in the hole the ball came out...
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The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 Paul A. Gilje Limited preview - 1987 |