Indiana Historical Collections, Volum 13

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The Commission, 1925 - 446 sider

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Side 329 - Pioneer Biography: Sketches of the Lives of some of the Early Settlers of Butler County, Ohio.
Side 38 - In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Side 125 - ... and of this writ make legal service and due return. Given under my hand and seal, this day of , AD 18 — . AB [SEAL.] SEC.
Side 196 - ... recovering his release from confinement. All was bustle and hilarity in preparing for winter, by gathering in the corn, digging potatoes, fattening hogs, and repairing the cabins. To our forefathers, the gloomy months of winter were more pleasant than the zephyrs of spring and the flowers of May.
Side 62 - ... etc. The county of Ontario included all of the state west of a line drawn due north from the...
Side 38 - The oath to support the Constitution of the United States, together with the oath of office as prescribed by the act, entitled " An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths.
Side 38 - Ohio, this twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and of the independence of the United States the thirty-ninth.
Side 29 - ... come to join the three first who had began the settlement. Had it not been for the difficulties in crossing the ocean, it is believed the whole distance of four and a half miles would have been filled up with as many more of those industrious people.
Side 196 - Indians were unable to make their excursions into the settlements. The onset of winter was therefore hailed as a jubilee by the early inhabitants of the country who throughout the spring, and the early part of the fall, had been cooped up in their little uncomfortable forts, and subjected to all the distresses of the Indian war. At the approach of winter, therefore, all the farmers, excepting the owner of the fort, removed to their cabins...
Side 197 - It however sometimes happened that after the apparent onset of winter, the weather became warm, the smoky time commenced and lasted for a considerable number of days. This was the Indian summer, because it afforded the Indians another opportunity of visiting the settlements with their destructive warfare.

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