The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, כרכים 1-2Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania., 1918 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Allegheny City Allegheny County Allegheny River Allegheny Town Anne April Arch assembly Avenue Bank baptized Beaver became boats borough Brackenridge building built burgh burying-ground canal Captain Charles Colonel Conrad Weiser council Court Creek Croghan David Alter December 31 defence dollars Duquesne Eliza Elizabeth English erected Federal Street feet Findley Fort Duquesne Fort Pitt forts Franklin French frontier garrison George George Croghan gheny Governor Henry Historical Society hundred Ibid Indians inhabitants James Jane January John July June land Legionville legislature Logstown March married miles Miss Mary Monongahela Monongahela River Nancy Neville officers Ohio River Penn Philadelphia Pitt Pitt Township Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church present President province Quakers Railroad road Samuel settlement side Society of Western soldiers stockade Susquehanna Taylor Thomas tion Township trade Trinity United village Virginia Washington Western Pennsylvania Westmoreland County William William Findley
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 19 - An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen, (a) SEC.
עמוד 241 - Duty it shall be to enquire whether the Constitution has been preserved inviolate in every Part ; and whether the legislative and executive Branches of Government have performed their Duty as Guardians of the People, or assumed to themselves, or exercised other or greater Powers than they are entitled to by the Constitution...
עמוד 190 - The fort consisted of cabins, block houses and stockades. A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet high, the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. A very few of these cabins had puncheon floors, the greater part were earthen.
עמוד 244 - That the people have a right to assemble together, in a peaceable manner, to consult for their common good, to instruct their representatives, and to apply to the legislature for redress of grievances.
עמוד 178 - It is situated on the south, or west fork of French creek, near the water; and is almost surrounded by the creek, and a small branch of it which forms a kind of island.
עמוד 182 - IN that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row, Like the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward down their threads so thin Dropping each a hempen bulk. At the end, an open door; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the long and dusky lane ; And the whirring of a wheel, Dull and drowsy, makes me feel All its spokes are in my brain. As the spinners to the end Downward go and reascend. Gleam...
עמוד 27 - O, boatman! wind that horn again, For never did the listening air, Upon its lambent bosom bear So wild, so soft, so sweet a strain!
עמוד 184 - Indians, they being all out hunting; but those we have seen are of opinion that their brothers, the English, ought to have a fort on this river to secure the trade; for they think it will be dangerous for the traders to travel the roads for fear of being surprised by some of the French and French Indians, as they expect nothing...
עמוד 66 - I DO hereby CERTIFY, That Daniel de Benneville, DM in the Pennsylvania Militia Hath voluntarily taken and subscribed the OATH of Allegiance and Fidelity, as directed by an ACT of General Assembly of Pennsylvania, passed the 13th day of June, AD 1777.
עמוד 178 - In the bastions are a guard-house, chapel, doctor's lodging, and the commander's private store, round which are laid platforms for the cannon and men to stand on. There are several barracks without the fort, for the soldiers' dwellings, covered, some with bark and some with boards, made chiefly of logs.