Handbook of the Fort Hill Cemetery: Containing Information Respecting the Ancient Mound and Fortification, and the Indian Monument Within the Enclosure. Also the Ordinances of the Board of Trustees |
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... Logan , and an Alvaretta , have been nearly ex- terminated . But their name is here to perpetuate the rec- ollection of a people whose history , as far as it is known , is fraught with exceeding interest . And so long as there shall ...
... Logan , and an Alvaretta , have been nearly ex- terminated . But their name is here to perpetuate the rec- ollection of a people whose history , as far as it is known , is fraught with exceeding interest . And so long as there shall ...
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... concluded Feb. 25 , 1789 , the name is writ- ten " Was - Kough . " When the village was obliterated , the whites applied its name to the Lake above and the river flowing through Auburn . birth place of Logan , who in early youth ,
... concluded Feb. 25 , 1789 , the name is writ- ten " Was - Kough . " When the village was obliterated , the whites applied its name to the Lake above and the river flowing through Auburn . birth place of Logan , who in early youth ,
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... Logan , who in early youth , and about the year 1730 , emigrated with Shikelli- mus , his father , from the Cayuga country to Pennsylvania , and subsequently to the valley of the Ohio , where his family were slain by Col. Cresap and his ...
... Logan , who in early youth , and about the year 1730 , emigrated with Shikelli- mus , his father , from the Cayuga country to Pennsylvania , and subsequently to the valley of the Ohio , where his family were slain by Col. Cresap and his ...
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... . Fort Alle- ghan evidently enclosed such an altar , as there was an elevated heap of earth near the place selected for the monument to the memory of Logan . Greeks and Romans , before their conversion to Christianity , 12 THE ALLEGHANS .
... . Fort Alle- ghan evidently enclosed such an altar , as there was an elevated heap of earth near the place selected for the monument to the memory of Logan . Greeks and Romans , before their conversion to Christianity , 12 THE ALLEGHANS .
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... Logan . These , then , are the precious relics of a race of people , who probably retired from this eminence during the thirteenth century ; who were wiser yet weaker than the Iroquois , and unable to main- tain their position here ...
... Logan . These , then , are the precious relics of a race of people , who probably retired from this eminence during the thirteenth century ; who were wiser yet weaker than the Iroquois , and unable to main- tain their position here ...
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Page 75 - There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
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