Tennessee Historical Magazine, Volume 3John Hibbert De Witt, William Alexander Provine, St. George Leakin Sloussat The Society, 1917 - Tennessee |
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Page 255 - ... received into the Indian towns, and kindly used until they recover, and then be allowed to return to Fort Prince George : That the Indians do provide for the garrison as many horses as they conveniently can for their march, agreeing with the officers and soldiers for payment : That the fort, great guns, powder, ball, and spare arms, be delivered to the Indians without fraud or further delay, on the day appointed for the march of the troops.
Page 255 - ... on condition of delivering up all the remaining warlike stores. The troops marched out and proceeded far enough to camp for the night, while the Indians swarmed into the fort to see what plunder they might find.
Page 45 - Hanks, for which a license has issued, now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then this obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue in law.
Page 255 - ... all their attendants, upon one pretence or another, left them ; which the officers considered as no good sign, and therefore placed a strict guard round their camp. During the night they remained unmolested, but next morning about break of day a soldier from an out-post came running in, and informed them that he saw a vast number of Indians, armed, and painted in the most dreadful manner, creeping among the bushes, and advancing in order to surround them. Scarcely had the officer time to order...
Page 195 - In whatever direction a body moves on the surface of the earth there is a force arising from the earth's rotation which deflects it to the right in the northern, but to the left in the southern hemisphere.
Page 88 - Now is the time to meet our Western friends at Memphis — to set the ball in motion which must bring the Valley to the South: and make them feel as allies of the Great Commercial and Agricultural interests— instead of the Tax gathering and Monopolizing interests of the North.
Page 231 - They and their constituents, they say, have cheerfully endured the almost unconquerable difficulties in settling the western country, in full confidence that they should be enabled to send their produce to market through the rivers which water the country ; but they now have the mortification, not only to be excluded from that channel of commerce by a foreign nation, but the Indians are rendered more hostile through the influence of that very nation, probably with a view to drive them from the country,...
Page 240 - I must beg that you write me by the first opportunity in answer to what I am now going to say to you. I am daily applied to by a body of very respectable people to make application to you for liberty to settle on Tombigby. If you give me proper indulgence, I make no doubt of 500 families removing there under my directtion.
Page 256 - George, to be managed by men under his command, they told him he must go and write such letters to the commandant as they should dictate to him. They informed him at the same time, that if that officer should refuse to surrender, they were determined to burn the prisoners one after another before his face, and try if he could be so obstinate as to hold out while he saw his friends expiring in the flames. Captain Stuart was much alarmed at his situation...
Page 47 - Nashville is a recently founded place and contains only 2 houses, which, in true, merit that name; the rest are only huts that formerly served as a sort of fort against Indian attacks.