History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Caron, and Schuylkill Counties: Containing a Brief History of the First Settlers, Topography of Townships, Notices of Leading Events, Incidents, and Interesting Facts in the Early History of These Counties : with an Appendix, Containing Matters of Deep Interest ...Hickok & Cantine, printers, 1845 - 568 σελίδες |
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History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill Counties Israel Daniel Rupp Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1971 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Allen Allen township Allentown arrived Berks Berks county Bethlehem Blue mountain borough Brecknockshire Brethren canal Captain Carbon county church coal collieries creek Delaware deponent Diahoga dwellings east Easton erected feet Fort Allen four George German Reformed Glamorganshire Glamorganshire S Wales Governor grist mills Guaden Huetten hill Honor horses hundred Indians inhabitants Ireland Jacob James John killed Lehigh county Lehigh river Luzerne Macunjy March Mauch Chunk Messrs miles mines Monmouthshire Monroe Monroe county morning navigation Nazareth Newcastle Northampton county passed Penn Pennsylvania Philadelphia Place of Nativity Pokono population Port Carbon post village Pottsville present prisoners province railroad returned road Samuel Saucon saw mills Schuylkill Schuylkill county scout sent settlement side Six Nations Smithfield stream tavern Teedyuscung Thomas tion town township is bounded tract unseated lands Upper valley vein wagons Water Gap Weiser William Wind Gap yards
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 2 - America lying north of Maryland, on the east bounded with Delaware River, on the west limited as Maryland, and northward to extend as far as plantable.
Σελίδα 29 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock ; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks ; and his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Σελίδα i - History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, , and Schuylkill Counties: containing a brief History of the First Settlers. Topography of Townships, Notices of leading Events, Incidents, and Interesting Facts in the Early History of these Counties With an Appendix, containing matters of deep interest. Embellished by several engravings.
Σελίδα 121 - ... to trace this paper so as to produce it to the court and jury, but have failed ;) this paper was signed by fifty-two persons, and committed to the hands of one of their number. John Fries was present at this meeting, and assisted in drawing up the paper, at which time his expressions against this law were extremely violent, and he threatened to shoot one of the assessors, Mr. Foulke, through the legs, if he did proceed to assess the houses.
Σελίδα 17 - These bold and indigent strangers, saying as their excuse when challenged for titles that we had solicited for colonists and they had come accordingly," 85 and asserting that " it was against the laws of God and nature that so much land should be idle while so many christians wanted it to work on and to raise their bread...
Σελίδα 16 - ... had solicited for colonists and they had come accordingly. They were, however, understood to be a tolerated class, exempt from rents by an ordinance of 1720, in consideration of their being a frontier people, forming a kind of cordon of defence, if needful.
Σελίδα 17 - It looks, says he, as if Ireland is to send all her inhabitants hither, for last week, not less than six ships arrived, and every day two or three arrive also. The common fear is, that if they continue to come, they will make themselves proprietors of the province.
Σελίδα 160 - Dupuis' they found great hospitality and plenty of the necessaries of life. J. Lukens said that the first tiling that struck his admiration was a grove of apple-trees, of size far beyond any near Philadelphia. That as N. Scull and himself examined the banks, they were fully of opinion that all those flats had at some very former age been a deep lake before the river broke through the mountain, and that the best interpretation they could make of Meenesink was, the water is gone.
Σελίδα 89 - Subjects of the same Government, and determine to share the same Fate with us, I shall make it my Care to extend the same Protection to you as to the other Subjects of his Majesty...
Σελίδα 7 - Palatines poured in upon us without any recommendation or notice, which gives the country some uneasiness, for foreigners do not so well among us as our own people,