Download or read book A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family With the Private Journal of James Backus 1889 written by William W. Backus and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family written by William W. Backus and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family With the Private Journal of James Backus Together With His Correspondence Bearing on the First Settlement of Ohio at Marietta in 1788 Also Papers and Correspondence of Elijah Backus Showing The written by William W Backus and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book GENEALOGICAL MEMOIR OF THE BAC written by William W. Backus and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family with the Private Journal of James Backus Together with His Correspondence Bearing on the First Settlement of Ohio at Marietta in 1788 Also Papers and Correspondence of Elijah Backus Showing the Character a written by William W Backus and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family written by William W. Backus and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family: With the Private Journal of James Backus, Together With His Correspondence Bearing on the First Settlement of Ohio, at Marieta, in 1788 This little volume, although primarily a family memorial, will nevertheless be interesting to the general reader, from the fact that many letters, documents and other articles are inserted, illustrating the spirit and character of the times in which they were written. Of these, the private journal and correspondence of James Backus is, perhaps, the most instructive and interesting. The journal, with a few breaks, covers a period of about three years, and was written on the spot where occurred one of the most important events in the country's history, - the settlement of Ohio, at Marietta, April 7, 1788. The journal, and also the correspondence, is full of interesting facts connected with this event, James Backus being one of the first settlers. The papers of Elijah Backus, bearing on another critical time in the country's history - the period of the Revolution and the period just before - is also very interesting. We see by these papers the character of the people who secured for us our independence, and the trying times through which they passed. Elijah Backus seems to have been very active at that time, and his papers throw a strong light on the character of the people and the times. These papers have been lying idle for a hundred years and more, and it is one of the objects of priming this book to preserve and make public these records, which, although they may not give any new points on the history of the country, yet may serve to corroborate the statements of other historians, and serve to fix some of the uncertain points. As a family memorial, this volume docs not pretend to be exhaustive. In fact, within the limits of this little book it would be impossible to even mention every member of so large and widely a scattered family So it has been thought best to follow the Norwich branch, that of the second William. Of his two children who settled in Norwich, we have followed only the line of Joseph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family with the Private Journal of James Backus written by Elijah Backus and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William (or Stephen) Backus emigrated from Norwich, England to Saybrook, Connecticut in about 1637. He married Sarah Charles and Anne Bingham. He died in Norwich, Connecticut in about 1659. He was survived by two sons and three daughters. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut, New York and Ohio. Includes Chandler, Griswold and related families.
Download or read book A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family with the Private Journal of James Backus Together with His Correspondence Bearing on the First Settlement written by William W. Backus and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... Friday, June 4th, 1790. Bought of Abram Wells, $34.26 in Virginia money and Continental papers, for which gave him $9 and 4 I 6 P. M. Paid him for keeping my horse two days, js. od. Bought of Wells this afternoon $2,600 in Virginia paper at $3 per thousand. Swapt horses with McFarland.gave him $20 to boot, to be paid when I come on again. Left with McFarland the following articles at the prices appended to be sold for me: 3Yl yds. coating, DEGREES2 Iu. \d. 6 hair clasps, 5 6 9 teaspoons @ 2 9 per dozen, ... 2 1 blue and white bandana handkerchief, . 126 3 DEGREES yds. nankeen (a) 3, 11 3 Paid the tailor 12 for making and mending clothes. Gave him an order on McFarland's account against me. Saturday, June 5th. Took breakfast at McFarland's. I started for Washington about half-past seven. Paid for making overalls 5 . Got to Washington at half past five. Paid for shoeing my horse behind 3 9. Sunday, June 6th. Started for Devoe's Ferry. Paid bill to Wilson DEGREESo 7 DEGREES. id. "hostler, 4 Ferriage at Devoe's, 6 Showery afternoon. . Got to Simrill's, sun half an hour high. Monday, June 7th. Wrote a letter to leave at Capt. Bartlett's for I. Choate, directing him to proceed to Buffalo. Left an order for him to get my horse, ect., and half a guinea in cash with Mrs. Bartlett. Paid bill to Simrill for supper, breakfast and seven quarts of oats, o 3*. 2d. Found my horse, which I had lost, at Col. Budd's. Paid him for keeping. Took horse to James Pearce's to pasture at 6 P. M. per month. Found my mare which I had left with Capt. Beckwith had been in keeping with James Pearce since Tuesday, the 25th of May, at the same price as the horse. Ordered Pearce to get my saddle and bridle from Beckwith and to deliver both horses, with the saddle an
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Download or read book A Genealogical Memorial of the Backus Family with the Private Journal of James Backus Bearing on the First Settlement of Ohio at Marietta written by W. Backus and published by . This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backus Family
Download or read book Settlements of Connecticut and Ohio with Miscellaneous Papers of Historic Interest A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family written by William W. Backus and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Pioneers written by David McCullough and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
Download or read book I ve Got a Home in Glory Land written by Karolyn Smardz Frost and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the day before Independence Day, 1831. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be "sold down the river" to the slave markets of New Orleans, young Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and successful—daylight escape from Louisville. But they were discovered by slave catchers in Michigan and slated to return to Kentucky in chains, until the black community rallied to their cause. The Blackburn Riot of 1833 was the first racial uprising in Detroit history. The couple was spirited across the river to Canada, but their safety proved illusory. In June 1833, Michigan's governor demanded their extradition. The Blackburn case was the first serious legal dispute between Canada and the United States regarding the Underground Railroad. The impassioned defense of the Blackburns by Canada's lieutenant governor set precedents for all future fugitive-slave cases. The Blackburns settled in Toronto and founded the city's first taxi business. But they never forgot the millions who still suffered in slavery. Working with prominent abolitionists, Thornton and Lucie made their home a haven for runaways. The Blackburns died in the 1890s, and their fascinating tale was lost to history. Lost, that is, until a chance archaeological discovery in a downtown Toronto school yard brought the story of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn again to light.
