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A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Classic Reprint) Lowell H. Glover No preview available - 2017 |
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active April became Berrien county born building Calvin township Cass county Cassopolis Charles church COMPANY cultivation daughter death died of disease disability Dowagiac Edwardsburg elected end of service farm farmer father February George Grange Henry honorable Howard hundred improvement Indiana interests James January Jefferson township John Jones Joseph county Kingsbury labor LaGrange township Lake Lieut living located m. o. Aug m. o. Feb m. o. July m. o. June m. o. Sept Marcellus March marriage to Miss married Mary Mason township Michigan mill Milton township native Newberg township October Ohio old homestead Ontwa township organization parents Penn township Pennsylvania pioneer plat Pokagon township political Porter township prairie railroad reared removed Sergt served Silver Creek township Smith supervisor Thomas tion Vandalia village Volinia township Wayne township wife William York
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Page 24 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government...
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Page 24 - ... so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the Confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.
Page 92 - Iowa, that the county of Linn be and the same is hereby organized from and after the 10th of June next, and the inhabitants of said county be entitled to all the rights and privileges to which, by law. the inhabitants of other organized counties of this Territory are 'entitled, and...
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Page 24 - Pennsylvania line aforesaid ; provided, always, and it is hereby fully understood and declared by this convention, that if the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan should extend so far south that a line drawn due east from it should not intersect Lake Erie, or if it should intersect...
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Page 24 - Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; 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.
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