The Old Northwest: With a View of the Thirteen Colonies as Constituted by the Royal ChartersT. MacCoun, 1888 - 440 halaman |
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... interest in the new empire that the Cabots had given her ; but toward the close of the six- teenth century she began to awake to her opportunity , and to take an interest in western planting . Her first colony was Jamestown , planted in ...
... interest in the new empire that the Cabots had given her ; but toward the close of the six- teenth century she began to awake to her opportunity , and to take an interest in western planting . Her first colony was Jamestown , planted in ...
Halaman 46
... interest . Louisiana was colonized . Posts and settlements connecting the mouths of the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi were es- tablished . The Strait of Detroit was guarded by a fortified post . The Treaty of Ryswick , that will be ...
... interest . Louisiana was colonized . Posts and settlements connecting the mouths of the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi were es- tablished . The Strait of Detroit was guarded by a fortified post . The Treaty of Ryswick , that will be ...
Halaman 57
... interest in the Western country . The Pennsylvanians and Virginians had worked their way well up to the eastern foot - hills of the last range of mountains separating them from the interior . Even the Connecticut men were ready to ...
... interest in the Western country . The Pennsylvanians and Virginians had worked their way well up to the eastern foot - hills of the last range of mountains separating them from the interior . Even the Connecticut men were ready to ...
Halaman 59
... interest in the over - mountain country . At that time the Ohio Valley was waste and unoccupied , save by the savages , but adventurous traders , mostly Scotch - Irish , and commonly men of reckless character and loose morals , made ...
... interest in the over - mountain country . At that time the Ohio Valley was waste and unoccupied , save by the savages , but adventurous traders , mostly Scotch - Irish , and commonly men of reckless character and loose morals , made ...
Halaman 60
... interest the West- ern tribes . Council fires burned at Logstown , at Shawnee- town , and at Pickawillany , and ... interests in the West would have been wrecked at last had they been abandoned wholly to governors and assemblies . There ...
... interest the West- ern tribes . Council fires burned at Logstown , at Shawnee- town , and at Pickawillany , and ... interests in the West would have been wrecked at last had they been abandoned wholly to governors and assemblies . There ...
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Halaman 272 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Halaman 271 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Halaman 272 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Halaman 418 - The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Halaman 98 - ... as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are...
Halaman 177 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...
Halaman 146 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with...
Halaman 263 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — for solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion under a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Halaman 95 - River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Halaman 341 - Louis river; thence up the main channel of said river to the first rapids in the same, above the Indian village, according to Nicollet's map; thence due south to the main branch of the river St.