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The Indian Wars: March 2008
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Early conflicts between North American natives and settlers. Sunday, March 16, 2008. From Our Savage Neighbor. S, by Peter Silver, published by W.W. Norton and Company, 2007, pp. 58-59:. Friday, March 7, 2008. After learning of Crawford’s brutal fate on June 11, 1782, the Pennsylvania Packet. Reported that the state militia was “greatly enraged and determined to have ample satisfaction.". Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland. Wednesday, March 5, 2008. WHEN the India...
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The Indian Wars: "The German Bleeds..."
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Early conflicts between North American natives and settlers. Wednesday, March 5, 2008. The German Bleeds.". The German bleeds and bears ye Furs. Of Quaker Lords and Savage Airs. The Hibernian frets with new Disaster. And kicks to fling his broad brim'd Master. But help at hand Resolves to hold down. The Hibernian's head or tumble all down". Cartoon, circulated after the 1763 Conestoga massacre). Scots-Irish in Early America. The War Between the States. French and Indian War. Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
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The Indian Wars: Early Burke County, North Carolina, according to Judge Avery
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Early conflicts between North American natives and settlers. Sunday, June 29, 2008. Early Burke County, North Carolina,. According to Judge Avery. Extract from an address on the "Early History of Burke County", by Judge Alphonso Calhoun Avery (1835-1913):. Old Mrs Hunter, the mother of James Hunter (who formerly lived on Linville where his son Joseph now lives), and grandmother of the late Swan Burnett and Mrs J. Sewell Brown of McDowell county, was scalped by the savages, who appeared at her house w...
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The Indian Wars: February 2008
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Early conflicts between North American natives and settlers. Thursday, February 28, 2008. Bouquet and Amherst, re: the "Blanketts". Postscripts from letters between British Colonel Henry Bouquet and General Jeffrey Amherst:. Bouquet to Amherst, dated 13 July 1763:. Amherst's response to Bouquet, dated 16 July 1763:. Bouquet to Amherst, dated 26 July 1763:. Fort Pitt and Biological Warfare. Journal of American History. A song of the time:. Free states, attend the song,. To earth's remotest bound. The swee...
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The Revolutionary South: George Mason (1725-1792), re "natural rights":
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Southern locales, events, groups, and individuals involved in the founding of the American republic. Friday, March 13, 2009. George Mason (1725-1792), re "natural rights":. From the Virginia Declaration of Rights. 8220; That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural Rights… among which are the Enjoyment of Life and Liberty, with the Means of acquiring and possessing Property, and pursueing and obtaining Happiness and Safety.”. Scots-Irish in Early America.
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The Revolutionary South: March 2008
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Southern locales, events, groups, and individuals involved in the founding of the American republic. Sunday, March 16, 2008. Gen Nathanael Greene in the South. Nathanael Greene to Francis Marion,. Thursday, March 13, 2008. The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge:. State Library of North Carolina. The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge:. During Josiah Martin's offshore exile, the patriots, in August and September 1775, set up a Provincial Council to govern the colony. Upon recommendation of the Continental Congr...
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Scots-Irish of America: Virginia's Westward Expansion
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McDowells, their relations, and early American Scots-Irish migration and settlement. Tuesday, February 12, 2008. From A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia. By Oren Frederic Morton, published 1920, The McClure Co., Virginia:. Which became effective in 1721. Yet it came only to the South Fork of the Shenandoah, one extremity of the line touching the river in the vicinity of Elkton, the other about midway between Front Royal and Bentonville. Orange. Which became effective January 31, 1770. .
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Scots-Irish of America: February 2009
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McDowells, their relations, and early American Scots-Irish migration and settlement. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Elizabeth "Betty" Hutchinson Jackson (1737-1781). Elizabeth "Betty" Hutchinson, Scots-Irish immigrant and mother of Andrew Jackson (who would become 7th President of the United States), had these last words for her son:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). McDowells of Early America. The War Between the States. French and Indian War. Treaty of New Echota. Elizabeth Betty Hutchinson Jackson (1737-1781).
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Scots-Irish of America: The North Georgia Gold Rush (part 1)
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McDowells, their relations, and early American Scots-Irish migration and settlement. Thursday, February 21, 2008. The North Georgia Gold Rush (part 1). From The New Georgia Encyclopedia. By David Williams (Valdosta State University); the Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press:. Ran the following notice. McDowells of Early America. The War Between the States. French and Indian War. Treaty of New Echota. The North Georgia Gold Rush (part 2). The North Georgia Gold Rush (part 1).
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Scots-Irish of America: March 2009
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McDowells, their relations, and early American Scots-Irish migration and settlement. Saturday, March 7, 2009. A Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Rebellion". In 1778 an unknown Hessian officer recorded his observations on the Revolutionary War: "Call this war by whatever name you may, only call it not an American Rebellion: it is nothing more or less than a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Rebellion.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). McDowells of Early America. The War Between the States. French and Indian War.
