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1817 LIBRARIES Albany America Annual appointed April Board of Education board of managers boundary Buffalo building By-Laws canal Canandaigua Caneadea cession Charles charter claims Colonel Rochester colonies committee Connecticut Constitution creek deed Delaware Dewey Dutch early elected Erie falls Five Nations Fort Niagara Genesee country Genesee river Genesee valley Geneva George Gorham Purchase Henry Henry E History Hudson hundred Indians Iroquois James John Judge Angle June Lake Ontario lands latitude legislature lessees Livingston March Massachusetts meeting memorial MICHIGAN miles mill Monroe County Morris Nathaniel Gorham Nathaniel Rochester Niagara O'Reilly Oliver Phelps organisation paper Pennsylvania Phelps and Gorham Pioneer Pouchot pre-emption line present public schools Pulteney Estate pupils Report residence Robert Troup Rochester Historical Society Seneca lake Senecas settlement Six Nations superintendent teachers term territory tion trustees UNIV UNIVERSITY village vols ward Western New York William
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Page 29 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government; DO, by these our Letters...
Page 30 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 21 - That by Congress accepting this cession, the jurisdiction of the whole western territory belonging to the Six Nations and their tributaries, will be vested in the United States, greatly to the advantage of the Union.
Page 30 - Merrimack, or to the northward of any and every part thereof, and all lands and hereditaments whatsoever lying within the limits aforesaid north and south in latitude and...
Page 30 - Bay ; and also all and singular those lands and hereditaments whatsoever, lying within the space of three English miles on the south part of the said...
Page 34 - No purchase or contract for the sale of lands in this State, made since the fourteenth day of October one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five; or which may hereafter be made, of, or with the Indians, shall be valid, unless made under the authority, and with the consent of the Legislature.
Page 34 - That no purchases or contracts for the sale of lands made since the fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, or which may hereafter be made with or of the said Indians, within the limits of this State, shall be binding on the said Indians, or deemed valid, unless made under the authority...
Page 109 - The constitution provides that "this constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting...
Page 50 - History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase, and Morris" Reserve; embracing the Counties of Monroe, Ontario, Livingston, Yates, Steuben, most of Wayne and Allegany, and parts of Orleans, Genesee and Wyoming. To which is added, a Supplement, or Extension of the Pioneer History of Monroe County.
Page 26 - The said land to extend westward five degrees in longitude, to be computed from the said eastern bounds, and the said lands to be bounded on the north by the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.