Genealogy and RecollectionsPriv. print. by the Blair-Murdock Company, 1915 - 170 pages |
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... French and English ; making their clothing , killing their meat , raising their food from the soil , making their candles , living without stoves , lamps , matches , breakfast foods , tinned goods , telephones , sewing machines ...
... French and English ; making their clothing , killing their meat , raising their food from the soil , making their candles , living without stoves , lamps , matches , breakfast foods , tinned goods , telephones , sewing machines ...
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... French war , the elder Biggs migrated from Frederick , Maryland , first to " The Glades , " then to Beeson's Fort , and finally about 1770 to Short Creek , Vir- ginia . The life she depicts is stirring , and certainly shows the Biggs ...
... French war , the elder Biggs migrated from Frederick , Maryland , first to " The Glades , " then to Beeson's Fort , and finally about 1770 to Short Creek , Vir- ginia . The life she depicts is stirring , and certainly shows the Biggs ...
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... French and Indian . St. Louis , Cape Girardeau , St. Genevieve , Cahokia , Kaskaskia , Fort Chartres , Fort Massac and other French villages and posts clustered in that region , the most delightful on the continent . Kaskaskia , and ...
... French and Indian . St. Louis , Cape Girardeau , St. Genevieve , Cahokia , Kaskaskia , Fort Chartres , Fort Massac and other French villages and posts clustered in that region , the most delightful on the continent . Kaskaskia , and ...
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... French . While the war of the Revolution waged , General George Rogers Clarke of Virginia led a column to attack and oust the English . Now , taking up James Moore again , whom we left at Slab Spring , but who later settled at Belle Fon ...
... French . While the war of the Revolution waged , General George Rogers Clarke of Virginia led a column to attack and oust the English . Now , taking up James Moore again , whom we left at Slab Spring , but who later settled at Belle Fon ...
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... French made defense from hostile Indians more feasible ; one of the mili- tary land grants made to James Moore embraced this spring , Belle Fontaine ( so named by the French ) , and there he built his blockhouse , his home , and as was ...
... French made defense from hostile Indians more feasible ; one of the mili- tary land grants made to James Moore embraced this spring , Belle Fontaine ( so named by the French ) , and there he built his blockhouse , his home , and as was ...
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