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acres appointed April Arthur St August bank became began Belpre Benjamin Tupper block-house Buell building built Campus Martius chapter citizens city of Marietta civil Clair Colonel colony Congregational church Congress corner council court house dollars early elected erected established February feet Front street Gilman Governor St Griffin Greene Harmar held honor Indians inhabitants institution James January John Joseph Judge July land located Lodge Manasseh Cutler March Marietta College Meigs ment miles mound Mound Builders Muskingum river Northwest Territory occupied October Ohio Company Ohio river Ordinance organized paper passed pastor Paul Fearing Pioneers present president purchase purpose Putnam street resigned Rufus Putnam Samuel Second street September settle settlement settlers Society soon square surveyors thence tion town meeting town of Marietta townships treasurer United Varnum Washington county western wife William worship
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Page 262 - You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little acorns grow...
Page 34 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Page 115 - As soon as a legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house, assembled in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to congress, who shall have a seat in congress, with the right of debating, but not of voting during this temporary government.
Page 18 - You can not station garrisons in every part of these deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage and remove with their flocks and herds to another. Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations. Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow; a square of five hundred miles.
Page 28 - ... has been run as the southern boundary of the State of Pennsylvania : and the first line running east and west shall begin at the same point, and shall extend throughout the whole territory; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed as fixing the western boundary of tLe State of Pennsylvania.
Page 17 - America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
Page 29 - The geographer and surveyors shall pay the utmost attention to the variation of the magnetic needle; and shall run and note all lines by the true meridian, certifying, with every plat, what was the variation at the times of running the lines thereon noted.
Page 18 - ... and of all the slaves that adhered to them. Such would, and, in no long time, must be, the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime, and to suppress as an evil, the command and blessing of Providence, "Increase and multiply.
Page 35 - The said Territory and the States which may be formed therein shall forever remain a part of this Confederacy of the United States of America, subject to the Articles of Confederation and to such alterations therein as shall be constitutionally made, and to all the acts and ordinances of the United States in Congress assembled, conformable thereto.
Page 28 - The lines shall be measured with a chain; shall be plainly marked by chaps on the trees, and exactly described on a plat...