| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - Страниц: 606
...consideration, to sell a tract of land included within prescribed points on the river, and extending back as far as a man could " walk in a day and a half." The proprietors immediately advertised for the most expert walkers in the province, and they performed... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - Страниц: 594
...consideration, to sell a tract of land included within prescribed points on the river, and extending back as far as a man could " walk in a day and a half." The proprietors immediately advertised for the most expert walkers in the province, and they performed... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - Страниц: 596
...consideration, to sell a tract of land included within prescribed points on the river, and extending back as far as a man could " walk in a day and a half." The proprietors immediately advertised for the most expert walkers in the province, and they performed... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1860 - Страниц: 802
...consideration, to sell a tract of land included within prescribed points on the river, and extending back as far as a man could " walk in a day and a half." The proprietors immediately advertised for the most expert walkers in the province, and they performed... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1860 - Страниц: 802
...consideration, to sell a tract of land included within prescribed points on the river, and extending back cers and Women at Albany. Courtesy of General Schu The proprietors immediately advertised for the most expert walkers in the province, and they performed... | |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber - 1872 - Страниц: 426
...occasioned They had a little while before, when I the deaths of more than four hundred of OF HUDSON'S RIPER. half; " thence to the Delaware again, and so down to the place of beginning. Sixty years later, Penn's successors were the surveyors of this tract, and, in order to secure as good... | |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber - 1872 - Страниц: 436
...never been satisfied since the treaty of 1737. The boundary of the land then sold was to have gone only "as far as a man could walk in a day and a half from Nashamony creek," yet the person who measured the ground did not walk but ran. He was, moreover,... | |
| 1875 - Страниц: 806
...hereafter. In brief, the Indians had been persuaded to give a very valuable tract of land on the Delaware as " far as a man could walk in a day and a half." Instead of construing this contract as it was evidently meant, the best and most active -walkers of... | |
| Ontario. Commissioner on the Northern and Western Boundaries, David Mills - 1877 - Страниц: 718
...Delaware, bounded by a line drawn from a certain point on Neshawiney Creek, in a north-westerly direction as far as a man could walk in a day and a half, and from the end of this walk by a line drawn eastward to the River Delaware. The proprietors of this... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1880 - Страниц: 402
...be defined by a line drawn from a certain point on Neshaminey Creek, in a north-westerly direction, as far as a man could walk in a day and a half. From the end of the walk, a line drawn eastward to the river Delaware was to form the northern limit... | |
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