An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Civil, Political, and Military, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Historical Descriptions of Each County in the State, Their Towns, and Industrial Resources |
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... connected by a double curtain of large trees . After some trifling skirmishes the Iroquois had recourse to strategem . They sent in a party of twenty - five men to treat of peace , and ask provisions to enable them to return . The ...
... connected by a double curtain of large trees . After some trifling skirmishes the Iroquois had recourse to strategem . They sent in a party of twenty - five men to treat of peace , and ask provisions to enable them to return . The ...
Page 19
... related by the braves of the Delawares , that many centuries previous their ancestors dwelt far in the western wilds of the American continent , but emigrating eastwardly , arrived after many years on the Namasi Sipu ( the Mississippi ) ...
... related by the braves of the Delawares , that many centuries previous their ancestors dwelt far in the western wilds of the American continent , but emigrating eastwardly , arrived after many years on the Namasi Sipu ( the Mississippi ) ...
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... connected the different sections of the Algonquin families . At the celebrated treaty of 1682 , the Shawanese were a party to that covenant , and they must have been considered a very prominent band , from the fact of their having ...
... connected the different sections of the Algonquin families . At the celebrated treaty of 1682 , the Shawanese were a party to that covenant , and they must have been considered a very prominent band , from the fact of their having ...
Page 31
... associated themselves together on the 16th day of October , 1630 . On the 12th of December following , a ship and a yacht for the South River were dispatched from the Texel , " with a number of people , and a large stock of cattle ...
... associated themselves together on the 16th day of October , 1630 . On the 12th of December following , a ship and a yacht for the South River were dispatched from the Texel , " with a number of people , and a large stock of cattle ...
Page 32
... related by themselves to De Vries , is sufficiently atrocious ; but it is neither improbable nor inconsistent with the disposition the aborigines had frequently displayed towards foreigners , that the desire of possessing the white ...
... related by themselves to De Vries , is sufficiently atrocious ; but it is neither improbable nor inconsistent with the disposition the aborigines had frequently displayed towards foreigners , that the desire of possessing the white ...
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