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Browsing named entities in a specific section of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.. Search the whole document.
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Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Red Stone Creek (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
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Chapter 46:
The origin of Tennessee.—Hillsborough's Administration of the Colonies continued.
October, 1770—June, 1771.
The Colonization of the West was one of the
Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Oct. great objects ever promoted by Franklin.
No one had more vividly discerned the capacity of the Mississippi valley not only to sustain Commonwealths, but to connect them with the world by commerce; and when the Ministers would have rejected the Fort Stanwix Treaty,
W. S. Johnson to Joseph Chew, 13 Feb. 1770. which conveyed from the Six Nations an inchoate title to the immense territory southwest of the Ohio, his influence secured its ratification, by organizing a powerful company to plant a Province in that part of the country which lay back of Virginia, between the Alleghanies and a line drawn from the Cumberland Gap to the mouth of the Scioto.
See the elaborate Petition of Works.
Benjamin Franklin to Congress, Passy, 20 Feb. 1780; not in his
Virginia resisted the proposed l