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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...as to the men at Mar-i-et-ta. In time the hard things they were forced to bear made them sad and home-sick. When the cold months came, they found the land they had paid for in France was not theirs at all. The gold which Bar-low took he had kept, and with it had run off to Eng-land; so now the Sci-o-to Com-pa-ny failed, and the poor men had no gold to go back to France, and no land here to call their own. The cold was so great that win-ter, that the O-hi-o was a bed of ice. The deer and bears went to the woods far South, and the men who hunt-ed for them had no meat to sell to the white men. The flour had all been used in the fall, and now there was naught to live up-on. One man, his wife, and sev-en chil-dren, lived for a week or more on dried beans, boiled with no salt or grease, and no bread. These were folks who had been used to nice things in France, quite as you are to-day. Some died from hun-ger, and some from cold. At last a man was sent to Con-gress to tell of their wrongs; and that bod-y felt for the lone folk, so far from their own land and friends, and so gave them a large tract of land to use for their farms. CHAPTER XVII. "ZANE'S TRACE." In May, 1796, Con-gress passed a law by which Rb-e-ne-zer Zane was to make a road from Wheeling in Vir-gin-ia, to a place in Ken-tuck-v. The next year, Mr. Zane, with his broth-er„ and son-inlaw, John M'In-tire, made the road; which was not wide nor smooth, but could be used by horse-men, and no more was wished for. Now for this act Zane was to have three farms, each one mile square. These were to be where men could cross the riv-ers; and he must keep boats at these points for such as wished to use them, if he would keep his farms. One was to be on the Musking-um, one at Hock-hock-ing, and the t...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1232379891
- ISBN 13 9781232379898
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages26
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