Historical Sketches of the Discovery, Settlement, and Progress of Events in the Coos Country and Vicinity: Principally Included Between the Years 1754 and 1785 |
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Page 209 - I am as resolutely determined to defend the independence of Vermont, as Congress are that of the United States ; and rather than fail, I will retire with the hardy Green Mountain Boys into the desolate caverns of the mountains, and wage war with human nature at large.
Page 2 - ... the right whereof he claims as author (or proprietor as the case may be;) in conformity with an act of Congress, entitled 'An act to amend the several acts respecting copyrights.
Page 176 - Notwithstanding this, the friendly Indian advised Baker and his men to use all diligence in their retreat ; for he said their number would increase every hour, and that they would return to the attack. Accordingly Baker pressed on the retreat with all possible despatch, and did not allow his men to take refreshment after the battle. But when they came into New Chester, having crossed a stream, his men were exhausted, through abstinence, forced parches, and hard fighting ; and they resolved they could...
Page 107 - ... but they soon filled the ditch, and the millions that were in the rear went over on the backs of their fellows in the trench, and took possession of the interdicted food. The inhabitants then adopted another expedient to save those fields yet standing. They cut a trench as before ; then took round and smooth...
Page 176 - ... their holes. Having destroyed their wigwams and captured their furs, Baker ordered a retreat, fearing that they would soon return in too large numbers to be resisted by his single company. And it seems that the Indians were fully up to his expectations or apprehensions, for notwithstanding, Baker retreated with all expedition, the Indians collected and were up with them, when they had reached a poplar plain in Bridgewater; a little south of where Walter Webster formerly kept tavern...
Page 2 - ANSLEY, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the title of which is in the words following, to wit : " Elements of Literature ; or, an Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
Page 175 - Baker and his men chose their positions and opened a tremendous fire upon the Indians, which was as sudden to them as an earthquake. Many of the sons of the forest fell in death in the midst of their sports; but the living disappeared in an instant and ran to call in their hunters. Baker and his men lost no time in crossing the river in search of booty. They found a rich store of furs, deposited in holes, dug in the...
Page 198 - I am told is the first instance of a prisoner having his parole in this fort without some confinement. Lodged with Esq. Marsh. " Wednesday, 14th. This morning, Esquire Marsh and I were invited to Capt. Sherwood's to breakfast. Then Capt. Sherwood took the charge of me, and I lived with him. To my great satisfaction, this evening came Mr. Spardain to see me, who was a prisoner to me at Ti. He said, on hearing that I was a prisoner, he went to the commandant to inform him of the good treatment he and...
Page 11 - ... hundred men, in each township, enclosing a space of fifteen acres ; in the centre of which was to be a citadel, containing the public buildings and granaries, which were to be large enough to receive all the inhabitants, and their moveable effects, in case of necessity.
Page 127 - Mann was twenty-one years of age, his wife seventeen years and six months. They left Hebron on the 16th of October, and arrived in Orford on the twenty-fourth of the same month. They both mounted the same horse, according to Puritan custom, and rode to Charlestown, NH, nearly one hundred and fifty miles. Here Mann purchased a bushel of oats for his horse, and some bread and cheese for himself and wife, and set forward — Mann, on foot, wife, pats, bread and cheese and some clothing on horseback.