The Political Club, Danville, Kentucky, 1786-1790: Being an Account of an Early Kentucky Society from the Original Papers Recently FoundJohn P. Morton, 1894 - 166 страница |
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... four years I had lived on the plains , surrounded by sage - brush and sand , never once seeing a mountain or a forest . Then I was ordered east with troops to Kentucky . We had been running very fast all night in the cars , and in the ...
... four years I had lived on the plains , surrounded by sage - brush and sand , never once seeing a mountain or a forest . Then I was ordered east with troops to Kentucky . We had been running very fast all night in the cars , and in the ...
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... four miles from the river , on account of the difficulty of large wagons loaded with goods for the interior ascend- ing the steep road leading up to the high ground . Goods were conveyed to the top of the hill in smaller quantities and ...
... four miles from the river , on account of the difficulty of large wagons loaded with goods for the interior ascend- ing the steep road leading up to the high ground . Goods were conveyed to the top of the hill in smaller quantities and ...
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... four : First , Sarah , who married Francis Thornton . A son of this marriage was Judge Harry Innes Thornton , of California , whose wife was a sister of Honorable John J. Crittenden . Second , Katherine , who married Samuel G. Adams ...
... four : First , Sarah , who married Francis Thornton . A son of this marriage was Judge Harry Innes Thornton , of California , whose wife was a sister of Honorable John J. Crittenden . Second , Katherine , who married Samuel G. Adams ...
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... four latter being all who were sent from Mercer County . The total num- ber from all the State was forty . The occupation of most of George Muter's life was that of a judge , and when he left the bench in 1803 he was old and poor . The ...
... four latter being all who were sent from Mercer County . The total num- ber from all the State was forty . The occupation of most of George Muter's life was that of a judge , and when he left the bench in 1803 he was old and poor . The ...
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... Four of his sons served in the Revolutionary War . Major John McDowell , the eldest , was with Washington at the crossing of the Delaware , at Valley Forge and Yorktown . He was also a major in the War of 1812. He was frequently in the ...
... Four of his sons served in the Revolutionary War . Major John McDowell , the eldest , was with Washington at the crossing of the Delaware , at Valley Forge and Yorktown . He was also a major in the War of 1812. He was frequently in the ...
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