Download or read book George Mercer Papers written by Lois Mulkearn and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mercer was a lieutenant and later captain of the First Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War, and a land surveyor. He served as agent for the Ohio Company in England. In this book, Lois Mulkearn interprets George Mercer's documents on the activities of the Ohio Company.Through the eyes of Indians, French, and English we see the political and military efforts to control the vast area of the Ohio frontier, and witness treaties signed at Logstown, and those between Pennsylvania and the Weas and Piankashaws in 1740. Among Mercer's other papers are directions for laying out the first British town to be called "Saltsburg" at present day McKees Rocks, outside Pittsburgh. With this extensive collection, Mulkearn enlightens our knowledge of colonial history and the western frontier.
Download or read book George Mercer of the Ohio Company Etc With a Portrait written by Alfred Procter JAMES and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Mercer of the Ohio Company written by Alfred Procter James and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Mercer Papers Relating to the Ohio Company of Virginia C written by Mercer Darlington Memorial Library. (George) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Mercer of the Ohio Company a Study in Frustration written by Anonymous and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 100 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 George Mercer Papers Relating to the Ohio Company of Virginia Compiled and Edited from a Manuscript Collection in the Darlington Memorial Library at the University of Pittsburgh by Lois Mulkearn With Plates Including a Facsimile of The Case of the Ohio Company written by OHIO COMPANY. and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Mercer of the Ohio Company a Study in Frustration Primary Source Edition written by Anonymous and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book George Mercer Papers Relating to the Ohio Company of Virginia Compiled by Lois Mulkearn Foreword by R W G Vail written by Lois Mulkearn and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Board of Trade on the Petition of Colonel George Mercer on Behalf of the Ohio Company Relative to the Lands Decreed to be Granted Them in Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Darlington Memorial Library George Mercer Paper Relating to the Ohio Company of Virginia written by University of Pittsburgh. Library and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ohio Company written by Alfred Proctor James and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred P. James presents a comprehensive reconstruction of the history and activities of the Ohio Company of Virginia, which was formed by esquire Thomas Lee and eleven others. In 1747, the group petitioned the governor and Council of Virginia for 200,000 acres of land west of the Allegheny Mountains. There they would build a fort and storehouses for the future settlement of the area by families. James also examines the effects of the French and Indian War on the settlements, and the vain attempts of the company to reorganize after the war. As his study reveals, despite these events, the Ohio Company was instrumental in developing the land that would later become western Pennsylvania. The book also reproduces some 1,200 pieces of company correspondence, including land and commercial transactions.
Download or read book George Mercer of the Ohio Company written by Alfred Procter James and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ohio Company of Virginia and the Westward Movement 1748 1792 written by Kenneth P. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case of the Ohio Company written by George Mercer and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Mason Forgotten Founder written by Jeff Broadwater and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "of the first order of greatness." Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive account of Mason's life at the center of the momentous events of eighteenth-century America. Mason played a key role in the Stamp Act Crisis, the American Revolution, and the drafting of Virginia's first state constitution. He is perhaps best known as author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, a document often hailed as the model for the Bill of Rights. As a Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Mason influenced the emerging Constitution on point after point. Yet when he was rebuffed in his efforts to add a bill of rights and concluded the document did too little to protect the interests of the South, he refused to sign the final draft. Broadwater argues that Mason's recalcitrance was not the act of an isolated dissenter; rather, it emerged from the ideology of the American Revolution. Mason's concerns about the abuse of political power, Broadwater shows, went to the essence of the American experience.
Download or read book The Indian World of George Washington written by Colin G. Calloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the United States--reflects the narrative of the nation he guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no more chronicled figure. Yet American history has largely forgotten what Washington himself knew clearly: that the new Republic's fate depended less on grand rhetoric of independence and self-governance and more on land--Indian land. Colin G. Calloway's biography of the greatest founding father reveals in full the relationship between Washington and the Native leaders he dealt with intimately across the decades: Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Guyasuta, Attakullakulla, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Cornplanter, Red Jacket, and Little Turtle, among many others. Using the prism of Washington's life to bring focus to these figures and the tribes they represented--the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware--Calloway reveals how central their role truly was in Washington's, and therefore the nation's, foundational narrative. Calloway gives the First Americans their due, revealing the full extent and complexity of the relationships between the man who rose to become the nation's most powerful figure and those whose power and dominion declined in almost equal degree during his lifetime. His book invites us to look at America's origins in a new light. The Indian World of George Washington is a brilliant portrait of both the most revered man in American history and those whose story during the tumultuous century in which the country was formed has, until now, been only partially told.
Download or read book George Washington Remembers written by George Washington and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Washington Remembers makes this very personal and little-known document available for the first time and offers a glimpse of Washington in a self-reflective mood - a side of the man seldom seen in his other writings.
