Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York: Embracing Some Account of the Ancient Remains ... and a History of Pioneer Settlement Under the Auspices of the Holland Company; Including Reminiscences of the War of 1812; the Origin, Progress and Completion of the Erie Canal, Etc., Etc., Etc |
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acres advent Albany Allegany army arrived Batavia Benjamin Black Rock BRANT British brother built Canada canal Canandaigua Capt Chautauque colonies command commenced council Daniel David early east Ellicott enemy English erected Erie Canal expedition father fire Five Nations forest Fort Frontenac Fort Niagara France French Frontenac Genesee county Genesee river Holland Company Holland Purchase hundred Indians inhabitants Iroquois James Jesuits John JOHNSON Joseph Joseph Ellicott Judge lake Erie lake Ontario land Lewiston located Lockport miles Mohawk Montreal Morris Niagara river NONVILLE Onondaga Ontario county party peace period Phelps pioneer portion prisoners region resident Ridge road sachem Samuel savages saw mill Senecas settled settlement settlers shore side Sir WILLIAM JOHNSON soon surveyor Tonawanda town townships tract treaty tribes Tuscarora vessel village Western New York wife wilderness William Willink woods
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Page 553 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Page 193 - Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally, — bidding the lip of man Keep silence, — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Page 259 - With all his howling desolating ba'nd ; — These eyes have seen their blade and burning pine Awake at once, and silence half your land. Red is the cup they drink ; but not with wine : Awake, and watch to-night, or see no morning shine...
Page 338 - I find no appearance of a line remains ; and from the manner in which the people of the United States rush on, and act, and talk on this side ; and from what I learn of their conduct toward the sea, I shall not be surprised if we are at war with them in the course of the present year ; and if so, a line must then be drawn by the warriors.
Page 190 - The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder; for when the wind blows out of the south, their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off.
Page 88 - ... their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and their power to dispose of the soil at their own will, to whomsoever they pleased, was denied by the original fundamental principle, that discovery gave exclusive title to those who made it.
Page 111 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 196 - Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer, almost from infancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to its shades, no college crowned him with its honors; to read, to write, to cipher, these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen years of age — in quest of an honest maintenance encountering intolerable toil ; cheered onward by being able to write to a schoolboy friend, ' Dear Richard,...
Page 110 - Near the latitude of thirty-three degrees, on the western bank of the Mississippi, stood the village of Mitchigamea, in a region that had not been visited by Europeans since the days of De Soto. ' Now,' thought Marquette, ' we must, indeed, ask the aid of the Virgin.
Page 616 - Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have given bounds to a new empire.