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1782 Draper MSS 1783 Clark MSS according to adjournment Acct acres Alex Breckenridge amount appears April Archives assee assignee August BENJAMIN HARRISON BENJAMIN LOGAN Blue Licks Board of Commissioners Bundle Certificate Clark Papers Colo Colonel command Country Deed Issued Detroit Ditto Dollars Enemy Ensign Excellency Executive Expedition expences Falls of Ohio favour Fayette flour FLOYD Fort Jefferson Fort Nelson Fort Pitt frontier furnished G. R. CLARK Gen Clark Gen¹ Genl George Rogers Clark honor Horse hundred Illinois country Illinois Grant Illinois Regiment Indians informed Inhabitants James Jefferson John JOHN FLOYD John Todd July June Kaskaskias Kentucky Lands Lieut lieutenant Lincoln Logan Majr March Militia Montgomery mouth Nelson October Officers Oliver Pollock party Pay Roll pd Capt pence Pitt pounds received rect Richard Taylor River sent Servt settled Settlement Shillings sundry Taffia Terrell Todd Troops Voucher Entered William Croghan ΙΟ
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Página v - ... that the necessary and reasonable expenses which any particular State shall have incurred since the commencement of the present war, in subduing any British posts, or in maintaining forts or garrisons within and for the defence, or in acquiring any part of the territory that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, shall be reimbursed.
Página 233 - Vincents were reduced, and to the officers and soldiers that have been since incorporated into the said regiment, to be laid off in one tract, the length of which not to exceed double the breadth, in such place on the North-west side of the Ohio as a majority of the officers shall choose, and to be afterwards divided among the said officers and soldiers in due proportion according to the laws of Virginia.
Página xxv - I have ever been of opinion, that the reduction of the post of Detroit would be the only certain means of giving peace and security to the whole western frontier...
Página 38 - I avail myself of the opportunity to renew to your excellency assurances of the high consideration with which I have the honor to be, sir, your very humble and obedient servant, WILLIAM L.
Página 250 - I find they have subscribed a very large sum of money in England for exploring the country from the Mississippi to California, they pretend it is only to promote knolege.
Página 465 - ... be authorized and empowered to adjust and liquidate the account of the necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by this state, which they shall judge to be comprised within the intent and meaning of the act of congress, of the tenth of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, respecting such expenses.
Página xxxv - Assuming a part of the expense himself, Clark gave special attention to the construction of four armed galleys with the design of using them to control the navigation of the Ohio at the mouth of the Miami. Spies and scouting parties were constantly engaged on the various trails leading to the settlements in order to prevent possible...
Página 482 - THE OLDEN TIME. A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Preservation of Documents and other Authentic Information in relation to the early Explorations and Settlement and Improvement of the Country around the Head of the Ohio.
Página 245 - ... but before I take leave of you, I feel myself called upon in the most forcible manner to return you my thanks, and those of my Council, for the very great and singular services you have rendered your country, in wresting so great and valuable a territory out of the hands of the British enemy, repelling the attacks of their savage allies, and carrying...