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" I graved my name on a tree by the river side ; and the Governor buried a bottle with a paper inclosed, on which he writ that he took possession of this place in the name and for King George the First of England... "
Representative Authors of West Virginia - Page 4
by Warren Wood - 1926 - 322 pages
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Memoirs of a Huguenot Family

James Fontaine - 1853 - 528 pages
...turkeys. The Governor had graving irons, but could not . grave any thing, the stones were so hard. I graved my name on a tree by the river side ; and the Governor buried a bottle with a paper inclosed, on which he writ that he took possession of this place in the name and for King George the...
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Narrative and Critical History of America: The English and French in North ...

Justin Winsor - 1887 - 318 pages
...journal : " The governor had graving irons, but could not grave anything, the stones were so hard. The governor buried a bottle with a paper enclosed,...which he writ that he took possession of this place, and in the name of and for King George the First of England." Maury's Huguenot Family, p. 288. a The...
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Narrative and Critical History of America: London: 1886-1889, Volume 5

Justin Winsor - 1887 - 682 pages
...journal : " The governor had graving irons, but could not grave anything, the stones were so hard. The governor buried a bottle with a paper enclosed,...which he writ that he took possession of this place, and in the name of and for King George the First of England." Maury's Huguenot Family, p. 288. г The...
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The Mississippi Basin: The Struggle in America Between England and France ...

Justin Winsor - 1895 - 508 pages
...but could not grave anything, the stones were so hard. . . . He buried a bottle and a paper inclosed, on which he writ that he took possession of this place in the name of and for King George the First of England. We had a good dinner, drank the king's health in champagne,...
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Filson Club Publications, Issue 13

1898 - 278 pages
...he adds : ' ' The Governor had graving irons, but could not grave anything, the stones were so hard. I graved my name on a tree by the river side ; and the Governor buried a bottle with a paper inclosed on which he writ that he took possession of this place in the name and for King George the...
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First Explorations of Kentucky: Doctor Thomas Walker's Journal of an ...

Josiah Stoddard Johnston - 1898 - 266 pages
...he adds : ' ' The Governor had graving irons, but could not grave anything, the stones were so hard. I graved my name on a tree by the river side ; and the Governor buried a bottle with a paper inclosed on which he writ that he took possession of this place in the name and for King George the...
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The Mississippi Basin; the Struggle in America Between England and France ...

Justin Winsor - 1895 - 508 pages
...but could not grave anything, the stones were so hard. . . . He buried a bottle and a paper inclosed, on which he writ that he took possession of this place in the name of and for King George the First of England. We had a good dinner, drank the king's health in champagne,...
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Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia

1900 - 362 pages
...deer and turkeys. The Governor had graving irons, but could not grave anything, the stoue was so hard. I graved my name on a tree by the river side, and...that he took possession of this place in the name and for King George First of England. We had a good dinner,and after it we got the men together and...
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History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870

Lewis Preston Summers - 1903 - 932 pages
...anything, the stones were so hard. I graved my name on a tree by the riverside, and the Governor hurried a bottle with a paper enclosed on which he writ that he took possession of this place in the name and for King Geo. 1st. of England. We had a good dinner, and after it we got the men together, and...
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The Opening of the Mississippi: A Struggle for Supremacy in the American ...

Frederic Austin Ogg - 1904 - 696 pages
...came upon the Susquehanna, which they named the Euphrates. There " the Governor buried a bottle and a paper enclosed, on which he writ that he took possession of this place in the name of and for King George the First of England. AVe had a good dinner, drank the king's health in champagne,...
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