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TABLE OF CONTENTS . PAGE The Beginning of the Ohio Company and the Scioto Purchase . By MAJOR E. C. DAWES ... 1 An Early Abolition Colony and its Founder . By A. A. GRAHAM .. The Underground Railroad in Ohio . BY PROF . WILBUR H. SIE ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS . PAGE The Beginning of the Ohio Company and the Scioto Purchase . By MAJOR E. C. DAWES ... 1 An Early Abolition Colony and its Founder . By A. A. GRAHAM .. The Underground Railroad in Ohio . BY PROF . WILBUR H. SIE ...
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... PURCHASE . * BY MAJOR E. C. DAWES . The beginning of the year 1783 saw the Revolutionary war virtually at an end ... Purchase , published in the Magazine of American History , December 1889 . Vol . IV - 1 English claim to which had been ...
... PURCHASE . * BY MAJOR E. C. DAWES . The beginning of the year 1783 saw the Revolutionary war virtually at an end ... Purchase , published in the Magazine of American History , December 1889 . Vol . IV - 1 English claim to which had been ...
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... purchase of the natives that tract of country that is bounded by Pennsylvania on the east , the river Ohio on the south , a meridian line drawn thirty miles . west of the river Scioto on the west , this meridian line to run from the ...
... purchase of the natives that tract of country that is bounded by Pennsylvania on the east , the river Ohio on the south , a meridian line drawn thirty miles . west of the river Scioto on the west , this meridian line to run from the ...
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... purchase shall be effected , and notice given by Congress or the committee of the associators , that the same is ready for settlement ( such notice to be published in the newspapers of all the United States ) , shall receive such ...
... purchase shall be effected , and notice given by Congress or the committee of the associators , that the same is ready for settlement ( such notice to be published in the newspapers of all the United States ) , shall receive such ...
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... purchasing lands in the western terri- tory . The fund was not to exceed one million dollars in conti- nental specie ... purchase of lands and under such descriptions as they shall deem adequate to the purposes of the Company . " The ...
... purchasing lands in the western terri- tory . The fund was not to exceed one million dollars in conti- nental specie ... purchase of lands and under such descriptions as they shall deem adequate to the purposes of the Company . " The ...
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Page 50 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 130 - Woods and Mississippi. The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Post Vincents to the Ohio, by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Page 84 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London, for the first Colony in Virginia.
Page 135 - That the limits and boundaries of this State be ascertained, it is declared that they are as hereafter mentioned ; that is to say: bounded on the east by the Pennsylvania line; on the south by the Ohio River to the mouth of the Great Miami River; on the west by the line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami aforesaid...
Page 130 - There shall be formed in the said Territory not less than three nor more than five States; and the boundaries of the States, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession and consent to the same, shall become fixed and established as follows, to wit: The western State in the said Territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio, and...
Page 111 - Resolved, That copies of the several papers referred to the committee be transmitted, with a copy of the report, to the legislatures of the several states, and that it be earnestly recommended to those states, who have claims to the western country, to pass such laws, and give their delegates in Congress such powers, as may effectually remove the only obstacle to a final ratification of the articles of confederation ; and that the legislature of Maryland be earnestly requested to authorize their...
Page 296 - All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Page 174 - State shall be established by, and extend to, a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami Bay, after intersecting the due north line from the mouth of the Great Miami River as aforesaid, thence northeast to the territorial line, and, by the said territorial line, to the Pennsylvania line.
Page 185 - ... provided however, and it is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three states, shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan...
Page 361 - No more in soldier fashion will he greet With lifted hand the gazer in the street. O friends, our chief state-oracle is mute : Mourn for the man of long-enduring blood, The statesman-warrior, moderate, resolute, Whole in himself, a common good.