| William Bromwell - Locomotives - 1854 - 208 pages
...the following incident in the history of Logan, after leaving the Juniata : In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant...of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawnee tribe. The neighboring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage... | |
| Eli Bowen - Mines and mineral resources - 1854 - 528 pages
...gives, the following incident in the history of Logan, after leaving the Juniata: In the spring of 1774, a robbe"ry and murder were committed on an inhabitant...of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawnee tribe. The neighboring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1854 - 400 pages
...Fuch exquisitely simple words without sacrificing a portion of their effect. In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of theShawanee tribe. The neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage... | |
| Eli Bowen - Mines and mineral resources - 1854 - 526 pages
...in the history of Logan, after leaving the Juniata : In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murderwere committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawnee tribe. The neighboring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...committed by some Indians on certain land-adventurers on the river Ohio. The whites in that quarter, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way. Captain Michael Cresap, and a certain Daniel Greathouse, leading on these parties, surprised, at different... | |
| American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...committed by some Indians on certain land adventurers on the riverof Ohio. The whites in thatquarter, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way. Captain Michael Cresap and acertain Daniel Greathouse, leading on these parties, surprised, at differenttimes,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1857 - 114 pages
...difficult it is to transpose such exquisitely simple words, without sacrificing a portion of their effect. In the spring of 1 774, a robbery and murder were...custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Children's literature - 1858 - 120 pages
...such exquisitely simple words, without sacrificing a portion of their effect. In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant...custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Children's literature - 1858 - 118 pages
...such exquisitely simple words, without sacrificing a portion of their effect. In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant...custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured... | |
| Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 pages
...committed by some Indians on certain land adventurers on the Ohio river. The whites in that quarter, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way. Captain Michael Cresap, and a certain Daniel Greathouse, leading on these parties, surprised, at different... | |
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