Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia, Volume 3The Department, 1911 - Archives Vol. for 1910/14 includes the Eighth Annual report of the Ohio Valley Historical Association as the appendix. |
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... , if possible , other docu- ments may be found containing or revealing the names of early West Virginians in these early Wars . { INTRODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY THE FOUNDING OF VIRGINIA . * ** 1910 ] 7 ARCHIVES AND HISTORY .
... , if possible , other docu- ments may be found containing or revealing the names of early West Virginians in these early Wars . { INTRODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY THE FOUNDING OF VIRGINIA . * ** 1910 ] 7 ARCHIVES AND HISTORY .
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... names of Charles and Henry , in honor of the sons of King James . Further within the bay , upon another projection , they bestowed the name of Point Comfort , because of the comfortable anchorage they found there . Then Captain Newport ...
... names of Charles and Henry , in honor of the sons of King James . Further within the bay , upon another projection , they bestowed the name of Point Comfort , because of the comfortable anchorage they found there . Then Captain Newport ...
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... name New River . The Ohio river , which forms the western boundary of West Vir- ginia , was discovered by Robert Cavalier La Salle - the most emi- nent French explorer of the New World . It was in the year 1663 , that Europeans first ...
... name New River . The Ohio river , which forms the western boundary of West Vir- ginia , was discovered by Robert Cavalier La Salle - the most emi- nent French explorer of the New World . It was in the year 1663 , that Europeans first ...
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... name of " Euphrates . " It was crossed and recrossed ; then a night was spent upon its banks ; then the return journey began , and from the Blue Ridge , the adventurers , looking westward , beheld in the distance , the lofty peaks of ...
... name of " Euphrates . " It was crossed and recrossed ; then a night was spent upon its banks ; then the return journey began , and from the Blue Ridge , the adventurers , looking westward , beheld in the distance , the lofty peaks of ...
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... name evermore to be associated with defeat . The remainder of the army returned to Fort Cumber- land and thence the West Virginians and Virginians proceeded to their homes and to Philadelphia . CHAPTER III . WEST VIRGINIA SOLDIERS IN ...
... name evermore to be associated with defeat . The remainder of the army returned to Fort Cumber- land and thence the West Virginians and Virginians proceeded to their homes and to Philadelphia . CHAPTER III . WEST VIRGINIA SOLDIERS IN ...
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Page x - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Page 10 - Declarations hereafter expressed, all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being in that Part of America, called Virginia, from the Point of Land, called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the Sea Coast to the Northward, two hundred miles, and from the said Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coast to the Southward, two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea,...
Page 144 - That War be, and the same is hereby declared to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of America and their territories...
Page 9 - And also all the Lands, Woods, Soil, Grounds, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Mines, Minerals, Marshes, Waters, Fishings, Commodities, and Hereditaments, whatsoever, from the same fifty Miles every way on the Sea Coast, directly into the main Land by the Space of one hundred like English Miles...
Page 258 - Virginia, solemnly declare that the preservation of their dearest rights and liberties and their security in person and property, imperatively demand the reorganization of the government of the Commonwealth, and that all acts of said Convention and Executive, tending to separate this Commonwealth from the United States, or to levy and carry on war against them, are without authority and void ; and that the offices of all who adhere to the said Convention and Executive, whether legislative, executive...
Page 186 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
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Page 9 - Miles directly over against the same Sea Coast; And also all the Lands . . . [etc.] . . . from the said Place of their first Plantation and Habitation for the space of fifty like English Miles, all alongst the said Coast of Virginia and America, towards the East and Northeast, or towards the North,-as the Coast lyeth, together with all the Islands within one hundred Miles, directly over against the...
Page 64 - States, who is yet a resident citizen of the United States, and who is, or hereafter, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, shall be in need of assistance from his country for support...
Page 170 - When the detachment and organization shall have been effected, the respective corps will be exercised under the officers set over them ; but will not remain embodied, or be considered as in actual service, until by subsequent orders they shall be directed to take the field. " Your excellency will please to direct that correct muster rolls and inspection returns be made of the several corps, and that copies thereof be transmitted to this department as early as possible.