History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Volume 1Lewis Publishing Company, 1907 - Cambria County (Pa.) |
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... January , Anno Dni , 1696 , and in the eighth yeare of the reigne of our Sovereign , Lord Will- iam , the Third , King of Eng'd . between Thomas Dongan , late Govern'r of New York , and now of London , Esqr . of the one part , and ...
... January , Anno Dni , 1696 , and in the eighth yeare of the reigne of our Sovereign , Lord Will- iam , the Third , King of Eng'd . between Thomas Dongan , late Govern'r of New York , and now of London , Esqr . of the one part , and ...
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... January 13 , 1696 , and conveys " all the land and every of the Senneca Susquehannahı Indians , " and will warrant and forever defend it . There are two branches of the Susquehanna river which join at Sunbury . The northern branch ...
... January 13 , 1696 , and conveys " all the land and every of the Senneca Susquehannahı Indians , " and will warrant and forever defend it . There are two branches of the Susquehanna river which join at Sunbury . The northern branch ...
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... January 1 , 1781 . Thatcher's Military Journal says of this command : " Several companies of riflemen amounting , it is said , to more than fourteen hundred men , have arrived here from Penn- sylvania and Maryland , a distance of from ...
... January 1 , 1781 . Thatcher's Military Journal says of this command : " Several companies of riflemen amounting , it is said , to more than fourteen hundred men , have arrived here from Penn- sylvania and Maryland , a distance of from ...
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... January 3 , 1777 ; and , remaining part of the ensuing winter in Philadelphia , moved down to Billingsport in March , 1777 . CAPTAIN RICHARD BROWN'S COMPANY . Captains : Richard Brown , appointed from Bedford county , March 19 , 1776 ...
... January 3 , 1777 ; and , remaining part of the ensuing winter in Philadelphia , moved down to Billingsport in March , 1777 . CAPTAIN RICHARD BROWN'S COMPANY . Captains : Richard Brown , appointed from Bedford county , March 19 , 1776 ...
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... January & Discharged 10th March & Allowed pay untill the 25th March , 1777 . Captain : Jacob Hendershot . Lieutenant : Frederick Storts . Sergeant : Francis Shives . Corporal : William Steed . Privates : William Andrews , Abraham ...
... January & Discharged 10th March & Allowed pay untill the 25th March , 1777 . Captain : Jacob Hendershot . Lieutenant : Frederick Storts . Sergeant : Francis Shives . Corporal : William Steed . Privates : William Andrews , Abraham ...
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Page 363 - ... families sitting out in their rude gardens; cows gazing upward with a stupid indifference; men in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out tomorrow's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirl-wind.
Page 363 - Occasionally the rails are laid upon the extreme verge of a giddy precipice; and looking from the carriage window the traveller gazes sheer down, without a stone or scrap of fence between, into the mountain depths below.
Page 363 - It was very pretty travelling thus, at a rapid pace along the heights of the mountain in a keen wind , to look down into a valley full of light and softness : catching glimpses , through the treetops, of scattered cabins; children running to the doors; dogs bursting...
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