Boone's Wilderness Road, Volume 6A.H. Clark Company, 1903 - 207 pagina's |
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Allegheny American army Blue Lick Blue Ridge Boone's Road Boone's Wilderness Road Boonesborough border boundary line brave British cabins Campt Cherokee claim Clark Clinch Colonel colonies Crab Orchard crossed Cumberland Gap Cumberland Mountain Cumberland River Daniel Boone Dunmore's early East expedition explorers father fork Fort Laurens Fort Watauga frontier Fryday Gist Holston horses hundred hunters immigration Indians Inglis Ferry James John journey Kanawha Kaskaskia Kentuckians Kentucky River killed Logan Long Island Martin meadows ment miles Mississippi Monday morning Muskingum North Carolina oclock Ohio River pack party passed path pioneers Pittsburg Powell Powell Mountain Powell's Valley purchase Revolutionary Richard Henderson Richland Creek Rockcastle Rockcastle River route Satterday savages Scioto settle settlement settlers Shawanese Stanwix treaty Station struggle Tennessee territory thousand tion trail Transylvania Company tree tucky Tuesday Vincennes Virginia Walker Watauga western westward Wilderness Road ΙΟ
Populaire passages
Pagina 35 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Pagina 93 - River, from the Cherokee Indians, to attend their treaty at Wataga, in March, 1775, to negotiate with them, and, mention the boundaries of the purchase.
Pagina 20 - America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
Pagina 141 - My advice to you, sir, is to come or send as soon as possible. Your company is desired greatly, for the people are very uneasy, but are willing to stay and venture their lives with you; and now is the time to flusterate their (the Indians) intentions, and keep the country whilst we are in it. If we give way to them now, it will ever be the case...
Pagina 32 - We found everywhere abundance of wild beasts of all sorts, through this vast forest. The buffalo were more frequent than I have seen cattle in the settlements, browzing on the leaves of the cane, or cropping the herbage on those extensive plains, fearless, because ignorant, of the violence of man. Sometimes we saw hundreds in a drove, and the numbers about the salt springs were amazing.
Pagina 72 - You are to note all the Bodies of good Land as you go along, tho there is not a sufficient Quantity for the Company's Grant, but You need not be so particular in the Mensuration of that, as in the larger Bodies of Land. You are to draw as good a plan as you can of the Country You pass thro : You are to take an exact and particular Journal of all Your Proceedings, and make a true Report thereof to the Ohio Company.
Pagina 32 - One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of Nature I met with in this charming season expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. Just at the close of day the gentle gales retired, and left the place to the disposal of a profound calm. Not a breeze shook the most tremulous leaf.
Pagina 156 - The boy cheerfully takes this pack up, following his father with it. The father finding the boy willing and obedient, continues in this way ; and as the boy grows stronger, so the father makes the pack in proportion larger; yet as long as the boy is able to carry the pack, he does so without grumbling. At length, however, the boy having arrived at manhood, while the father is making up the pack for him, in comes a person of an evil disposition...
Pagina 43 - Brother, says he, we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it.