Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Band 3Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1904 |
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... Creek . 79 Miles from Pittsburgh . · The 17th passed by Willing [ Wheeling ] 92 Miles from Pittsburgh ; this place is inhabited by about 12 families as is also Buffalo Creek [ Wellsburg ] . Owing to the con- trary wind we traveled only ...
... Creek . 79 Miles from Pittsburgh . · The 17th passed by Willing [ Wheeling ] 92 Miles from Pittsburgh ; this place is inhabited by about 12 families as is also Buffalo Creek [ Wellsburg ] . Owing to the con- trary wind we traveled only ...
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... Creek , in Ohio . Only one island remains at this place . — ED . 23 Limestone ( now Maysville ) was long the chief river post for Kentucky , but was not early settled owing to its exposure to Indian attacks . Bullitt and the McAfees ...
... Creek , in Ohio . Only one island remains at this place . — ED . 23 Limestone ( now Maysville ) was long the chief river post for Kentucky , but was not early settled owing to its exposure to Indian attacks . Bullitt and the McAfees ...
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... Creek Indians ; That a messenger had been sent to Madrid " and that any one of the United States that would venture the state legislature . A man of wealth and prominence , his family became intimately associated with Kentucky history ...
... Creek Indians ; That a messenger had been sent to Madrid " and that any one of the United States that would venture the state legislature . A man of wealth and prominence , his family became intimately associated with Kentucky history ...
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... Creek and that , after I should have con- ferred with General Clark , he hoped the latter would , in consequence of what I should communicate to him , make arrangements for further conferences together " etc. etc. The 12th returned to ...
... Creek and that , after I should have con- ferred with General Clark , he hoped the latter would , in consequence of what I should communicate to him , make arrangements for further conferences together " etc. etc. The 12th returned to ...
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... Creek , so named in honor of the first Baptist preacher in Kentucky , Rev. William Hickman.- ED . 48 See letter of this date , written by Michaux to Clark ( American Historical Association Report , 1896 , p . 1010 ) , in which he gives ...
... Creek , so named in honor of the first Baptist preacher in Kentucky , Rev. William Hickman.- ED . 48 See letter of this date , written by Michaux to Clark ( American Historical Association Report , 1896 , p . 1010 ) , in which he gives ...
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