Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents, and Every Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volume 10Samuel Hazard W. F. Geddes, 1828 - Pennsylvania |
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... ( Continued from Vol . IX , page 303. ) Captain Brady had returned from Sandusky , per- haps a week , when he was observed one evening by a man by the name of Phouts , sitting in a solitary part of the fort , apparently absorbed in ...
... ( Continued from Vol . IX , page 303. ) Captain Brady had returned from Sandusky , per- haps a week , when he was observed one evening by a man by the name of Phouts , sitting in a solitary part of the fort , apparently absorbed in ...
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... continued , with immense exhaustion of the vital power , increasing coldness and lividity of the extremities , till about 9 o'clock in the evening , when Dr. Ewing unexpectedly saw her ; she was still writhing in torture now somewhat ...
... continued , with immense exhaustion of the vital power , increasing coldness and lividity of the extremities , till about 9 o'clock in the evening , when Dr. Ewing unexpectedly saw her ; she was still writhing in torture now somewhat ...
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... ( Continued from page 13. ) Phouts , who never thought of danger , was for shoot- ing the Indian immediately ; but Brady prevented him . After examining carefully around the camp he was of opinion that the number by which it was made ...
... ( Continued from page 13. ) Phouts , who never thought of danger , was for shoot- ing the Indian immediately ; but Brady prevented him . After examining carefully around the camp he was of opinion that the number by which it was made ...
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... continued firmly attached to him . He was , soon after the war , elected to the legislature of Pennsylvania , where he , for many years , honorably and faithfully represented and served his constituents . He was elected with a host of ...
... continued firmly attached to him . He was , soon after the war , elected to the legislature of Pennsylvania , where he , for many years , honorably and faithfully represented and served his constituents . He was elected with a host of ...
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... ( Continued from page , 22. ) The Indians did not return that season to do any in- jury to the whites , and early that fall moved off to their friends , the British , who had to keep them all winter , their corn having been destroyed by ...
... ( Continued from page , 22. ) The Indians did not return that season to do any in- jury to the whites , and early that fall moved off to their friends , the British , who had to keep them all winter , their corn having been destroyed by ...
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Page 28 - Legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards and other needful buildings.
Page 27 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 270 - Boston, shall be managed under the direction of the select men, united with the ministers of the oldest episcopalian, congregational, and presbyterian churches in that town, who are to let out the same upon interest at five per cent, per annum, to such young married artificers, under the age of twenty-five years, as have served an apprenticeship in the said town, and faithfully fulfilled the duties required in their indentures, so as to obtain a good moral character from at least two respectable...
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