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Albany American army arrived Batavia Beall Black Rock boat British brother brought Buffalo Creek Buffalo Historical Society building burned Canada Canadian canoes Capt Captain captive captured carried Charles Colonel command DEAR SIR Detroit enemy English father Fillmore fire Five Nations Fort Erie Fort Frontenac Fort George Fort Niagara France French Frontenac frontier George Governor Haldimand MSS Henry horse Indians Iroquois Island James John Johnson's Island Joncaire JOSEPH ELLICOTT JOSEPH ELLICOTT Esqre July June killed Lake Erie Lake Ontario land letter Lieut Longueuil Louis Le Couteulx March miles Millard Fillmore Mohawk Montreal morning mother Niagara officers Onondaga paper party present Quebec returned river road Robert Robert Morris Salisbury Sandusky says Schoharie Schoharie County Senecas sent Sieur soldiers soon spring Street taken prisoner tion took Town lot trade troops valley Vaudreuil village William York
Populaire passages
Pagina 483 - DEAR SIR, I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 8th of January, and their duplicates.
Pagina 72 - We are aware that our customs are in this respect different from those of some other countries, but every nation has a right to manage its affairs in its own way. The trade carried on with the Dutch at Nagasaki is not to be regarded as furnishing a precedent for trade with other foreign nations.
Pagina 266 - A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and His Family...
Pagina 129 - ... quit claimed, and by these presents doe for us our heires and successors absolutely surrender, deliver up and for ever quit claime unto our great Lord and Master the King of England called by us Corachkoo and by the Christians William the third and to his heires and successors Kings and Queens of England for ever...
Pagina 471 - For it is a principle of universal law, that the natural-born subject of one prince cannot by any act of his own, no, not by swearing allegiance to another, put off or discharge his natural allegiance to the former : for this natural allegiance was intrinsic, and primitive, and antecedent to the other; and cannot be devested without the concurrent act of that prince to whom it was first due.
Pagina 49 - State courts, but by the courts of the United States. I am not prepared to admit the principle claimed in the protest of her Majesty's government, namely, that the offender could not lawfully be tried for the crime of piracy under the circumstances of the case.
Pagina 469 - ... good, and the subject is copious — I like to reason with a reasonable man, but I disdain to notice those scribblers in the newspapers altho' they have honored me with their abuse — My attention to them will never exist whilst there is a Cat or a Spaniel in the House ! With very great esteem and regard I have the honor to be Dear Sir Yo,ur most obedient servant, RICHARD HENRY LEE.
Pagina 210 - Niagara, and after gaining again the upper river, hastened on, weary league on league, until he finally came again to his abiding-place at Missilimackinac. This was Joseph La France. His father was a French Canadian, his mother of the nation of Sauteurs, living at the falls of St. Mary, between Lakes Superior and Huron. Here he was born about 1707. His mother died when he was five years old, and his father took him to Quebec, where he spent six months and learned French. Quebec had then, according...
Pagina 65 - In those cases can be found every important letter and document which I received during my administration, and which will enable the future historian or biographer to prepare an authentic account of that period of our country's history.
Pagina 151 - ... the whirlpools formed by a thousand rocks, through which it with difficulty finds a passage, and by the foam with which it is always covered; on the other the view is confined by three mountains placed one over the other, and whereof the last hides itself in the clouds. This would have been a very proper scene for the poets to make the Titans attempt to scale the heavens. In a word, on whatever side you turn your eyes, you discover nothing which does not inspire a secret horror.