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Such entry to land was not legal, but usually was recognized and later made valid by legal process. Such was the claim made to the site of modern Wheeling, West Virginia, by Ebenezer Silas and Jonathan Zane in 1770. I journeyed up the Cheat and left its head waters and proceeded down the Greenbriar without observing any signs of the red peril which was creeping upon the country.
It was kept going almost constantly from morning till night by our neighbors for a period of several weeks." In the Greenbriar country, where they had a number of saltpeter caves, the first settlers made plenty of excellent gunpowder by the means of those sweeps and mortars.
We ain't forgitting what happened at Keeney's Knob, at the Clendennin farm on the Greenbriar; nor the scores of killings up in Tygart's Valley, and in other places. Give 'em the pewter every chance you can! That's my religion." "That's the talk, Lige!" cried Scott. "Ike Crabtree would 'a' liked to been in this fun." "He'll feel cut up when he hears about our luck," said Hacker.
I showed how we should travel to the north fork of the Sandy and then strike to the head of Bluestone, and follow it nearly to the mouth before leaving it to cross New River; then a short journey to the Greenbriar and Howard's Creek.
After my father returned from this trip, he began his arrangements for taking my mother to the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs. He hoped that the waters and the change might be of service to her general health, even if they should not alleviated the severity of her rheumatic pains.
Many of the women on the Greenbriar had walked the entire distance over the mountains so that the pack-animals might be used in carrying the jealously guarded and pitiably few household-goods. It was amazing to contemplate what a difference two or three hundred miles could make in one's environment.
I've been in Port Vigor often, but then I was on the road that runs along the Sound. I suppose this village ahead is Greenbriar?" "Yes," I said. "It's about thirteen miles from there to Port Vigor. How do you expect to get back to Brooklyn?" "Oh, Brooklyn?" he said vaguely. "Yes, I'd forgotten about Brooklyn for the minute. I was thinking of my book.
I listened to the drip of the rain, and the steady creak of Parnassus on her axles. I thought of my "anthology" of loaves of bread and vowed to bake a million more if Roger wanted me to. It was after supper time when we got to Greenbriar.
From General Loring, are you not? You low-countrymen are gathering all our mountain laurels! Gauley River and Greenbriar and to-day, news of the Allegheny engagement " "You seem to be bent," said Stafford, "on drawing us from the Monterey line before we can gather any more! We will be here next week." "You do not like the idea?" The other shrugged. "I? Why should I care?
At Greenbriar. See "Narrative of Captain John Stewart," an actor in the war. Magazine of American History, Vol. I., p. 671. Loudon's "Indian Narratives," II., p. 223. See "American Pioneer," I., p. 189. Letter of George Rogers Clark, June 17. 1798. In Jefferson MSS., 5th Series, Vol.
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