A History of Old Kinderhook from Aboriginal Days to the Present Time: Including the Story of the Early Settlers, Their Homesteads, Their Traditions, and Their Descendants; with an Account of Their Civic, Social, Political, Educational, and Religious Life

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1914 - 572 páginas
 

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Página 8 - The natives are a very good people ; for, when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows, and, taking the arrows, they broke them in pieces, and threw them into the fire,
Página 171 - ... opposing the execution of the several arbitrary and oppressive acts of the British parliament, until a reconciliation between Great Britain and America, on constitutional principles (which we most earnestly desire) can be obtained...
Página 153 - Look at the French; they are men; they are fortifying everywhere! But, we are ashamed to say it, you are like women, bare and open without any fortifications!
Página 170 - Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America, depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants, in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the necessity of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend a dissolution of the powers of government...
Página 494 - ... in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Página 486 - In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — "Forever — never! Never — forever!
Página 169 - Whereas the power but not the justice, the vengeance but not the wisdom of Great Britain, which of old persecuted, scourged, and exiled our fugitive parents from their native shores, now pursues us their guiltless children, with unrelenting severity...
Página 7 - I sailed to the shore," says Hudson, " in one of their canoes, with an old man, who was the chief of a tribe, consisting of forty men and seventeen women ; these I saw there in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being well built, with an arched roof.
Página 390 - ... years by the unanimous choice of his men in the invasion and conquest of Canada by the British, the command of a regiment at the capture of Burgoyne in 1777, that of a member of the State convention which adopted the Federal Constitution and a long service as a State Senator, member of the Council of Appointment, and Chief Judge of this county.
Página 171 - ... we, the freemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the city and county of New York, being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the ministry to raise a revenue in America...

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