Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949
 

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Sivu 115 - Mississippi ; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude : south by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Sivu 276 - Cherokees acknowledge themselves to be under the protection of the United States, and of no other power. Protection does not imply the destruction of the protected.
Sivu 114 - Benefices,'" should be extended: be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and immediately after the passing of this Act...
Sivu xvii - Samuel Cole Williams, History of the Lost State of Franklin (Johnson City, Tennessee, 1924), 26-33. »* Edmund C. Burnett, ed., "Papers Relating to Bourbon County, Georgia," American Historical Review, XV (1909-10), 68.
Sivu 116 - Captain general, governor and commander in chief in and over the state aforesaid.
Sivu 117 - Seven and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America the Eleventh.
Sivu 264 - River, which is granted, & if they settle themselves there I think it would be the best service could be done for those inhabitants on this account. I have had the greatest satisfaction in the honour I received in being acquainted that the Inhabitants of your District have distinguish my name with the preferring it for the denomination of that Country, which impels me...
Sivu 115 - Whereas it will not be propper at present to open a Land office for the purpose of granting out the lands in the said County, But nevertheless it is hereby enacted and declared that whenever that measure shall be determined upon by this or a future Legislature, there shall be a right of preference, agreeable to the laws of this State, reserved to any all and...
Sivu 114 - Lake, and the water -communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude.
Sivu 273 - Unprotected, we are to be obedient to the new Congress of the United States; but we cannot but wish for a more interesting Connection. "The United States afford us no protection. The district of Miro is daily plundered and the inhabitants murdered by the Creeks, and Cherokees, unprovoked. "For my own part, I conceive highly of the advantages of your Government.

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