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Pagina 78
... acres within the bounds of Bristol , provided it could be purchased of the Indians . Another change had come just as hard to bear . To the men who landed at Plymouth Rock the Wampanoags seemed to be , and no doubt were , a dirty , half ...
... acres within the bounds of Bristol , provided it could be purchased of the Indians . Another change had come just as hard to bear . To the men who landed at Plymouth Rock the Wampanoags seemed to be , and no doubt were , a dirty , half ...
Pagina 88
... acre island , then the little brook , flowing near the rocky hill , does not answer very well to the muddy river described by him . 66 If you turn now to the second theory , you can say , that the Winimisset swamp is nearly ten miles ...
... acre island , then the little brook , flowing near the rocky hill , does not answer very well to the muddy river described by him . 66 If you turn now to the second theory , you can say , that the Winimisset swamp is nearly ten miles ...
Pagina 93
... acres , and had located it just where the Committee wanted to lay out town lots , especially one for the minister , one for the meeting - house , and one for a mill . This was in 1669. A petition to the Great and General Court signed by ...
... acres , and had located it just where the Committee wanted to lay out town lots , especially one for the minister , one for the meeting - house , and one for a mill . This was in 1669. A petition to the Great and General Court signed by ...
Pagina 94
... acres they shall have to give up the plantation . The affair was finally compromised by giving Curtis fifty acres in the vil- lage , on which a descendant still lives , and two hundred and fifty acres outside the village . When we ...
... acres they shall have to give up the plantation . The affair was finally compromised by giving Curtis fifty acres in the vil- lage , on which a descendant still lives , and two hundred and fifty acres outside the village . When we ...
Pagina 95
... acres , or remained to the end a daring scout and Indian fighter I know not . It may be assumed perhaps , that in 1718 he was dead , as his farm was then improved by his son . George William Curtis , the silver - tongued orator , traces ...
... acres , or remained to the end a daring scout and Indian fighter I know not . It may be assumed perhaps , that in 1718 he was dead , as his farm was then improved by his son . George William Curtis , the silver - tongued orator , traces ...
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Pagina 330 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Pagina 328 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent ; and in their property rights and liberty they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Pagina 331 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Pagina 327 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land; and, should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Pagina 329 - The legislatures of those districts, or new states, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the Unite'd States in Congress assem-bled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Pagina 327 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Pagina 322 - Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid that there shall be appointed from time to time, by Congress, a governor whose commission shall continue in force for the term of three years, unless sooner revoked by Congress...
Pagina 322 - There shall be appointed from time to time, by congress, a secretary whose commission shall continue in force for four years, unless sooner revoked; he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein, in five hundred acres of land, while in the exercise of his office...
Pagina 330 - The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from post Vincents to the Ohio; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due North from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line. — The Eastern...
Pagina 321 - ... may be devised or bequeathed by wills in writing, signed and sealed by him or her, in whom the estate may be, (being of full age,) and attested by three witnesses ; and real estates may be conveyed by lease and release, or bargain and sale, signed, sealed, and delivered, by the person, being of full age, in whom the estate may be, and attested by two witnesses, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof duly proved, and be recorded within...