Historical Collections of the State of New York: Containing a General Collection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, &c. Relating to Its History and Antiquities, with Geographical Descriptions of Every Township in the Stateauthors, 1845 - 616 من الصفحات |
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12 miles 50 dwellings academy acres American army arrived bank Baptist Batavia boat British Buffalo building called Canada Canandaigua Capt centrally distant centre Champlain Chenango river church Clinton Colonel command commenced contains creek Dutch early east Ellicottville enemy Episcopal erected Erie canal falls feet fire formed French Genesee Genesee river governor harbor Herkimer Hill Hudson hundred Indians inhabitants killed Lake Lake Champlain Lake Ontario land Long Island Methodist miles NW militia mills Mohawk Mohawk river mountain Niagara night officers Ogdensburg Oneida Onondaga Ontario organized in 1788 Oswego party Plattsburg post-offices Poughkeepsie Presbyterian principal prisoners river road Schenectady Schoharie Seneca settled settlers shore side Sir William Johnson situated small post village small settlements small village stone Susquehannah taken town tract trees troops Tryon county Utica valley Watertown Whitestown whole William woods wounded York
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الصفحة 594 - To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace. On one side of the church extends a wide woody dell, along which raves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees. Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church...
الصفحة 449 - I know you young men are all in love with Mrs. Arnold, and wish to get where she is as soon as possible. You may go and take breakfast with her, and tell her not to wait for me. I must ride down and examine the redoubts on this side of the river, and will be there in a short time.
الصفحة 289 - The grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting...
الصفحة 591 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
الصفحة 290 - Haman swung conspicuously on his gibbet; and Jonah appeared most manfully bouncing out of the whale, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a waggon.
الصفحة 340 - I knew not what was the matter ; but if they would be quiet and indulge me for half an hour, I would either go on or abandon the voyage for that time. This short respite was conceded without objection. I went below and examined the machinery, and discovered that the cause was a slight maladjustment of some of the work.
الصفحة 289 - The young folks would crowd around the hearth, listening with breathless attention to some old crone of a negro who was the oracle of the family, and who, perched like a raven in a corner of the chimney, would croak forth for a long winter afternoon a string of incredible stories about New England witches, grisly ghosts, horses without heads and hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians.
الصفحة 503 - About 8 o'clock in the morning, he died. After he was laid out, and his corpse wrapped up in a sheet, we came again into the room, and had this sorrowful sight before us the whole day; and, to add to the melancholy scene, almost every moment some officer of my acquaintance was brought in wounded.
الصفحة 308 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
الصفحة 290 - Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting, — no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones, — no self-satisfied struttings of wealthy gentlemen, with their brains in their pockets, nor amusing conceits and monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen, with no brains at all. On the contrary, the young ladies seated themselves demurely...