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acres Alamance county Alamance creek Albright was born Barbara battle of Alamance born in Orange Burlington Cane Creek Capt CHAPTER Chatham church Clapp Clendenen Court Daniel daughter David died Edmund Fanning English Enoe Fanning father Foust George Burrington German Giles Mebane Graham Granville Greensboro Guilford Guilford county Haw Fields Haw River Herman Husbands Hill Hillsboro Holt's hundred Indians Jacob Albright Jane Joseph Judge killed King Lindley lived Lord mance March married John married Mary married Miss married Sallie Mebane Michael Holt miles mill Montgomery moved Nancy Nash Nathaniel negroes Newlin North Carolina Orange county Pennsylvania Polly province Puryear Pyles Quakers Rachael railroad Regulators Revolution road Ruffin Sam'l Strudwick Samuel Scott settled settlers South Stephen Stinking Quarter Stockard Thomas Thompson Tories Trollinger Turner Turrentine Virginia W. F. Strudwick Whigs White married wife William Albright William married Wood
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Page 29 - Their pamper'd boughs, and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces: or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she, spoused, about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with him brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves.
Page 121 - Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat — one Who can rule and dare not lie.
Page 48 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Page 30 - PROVINCE, or of the greater Part of them, or of their Delegates or Deputies...
Page 39 - Faith &c between the Right Honorable John, Earl Granville Viscount Carteret and Baron Carteret of Hawns in the County of Bedford in the Kingdom of Great Britian one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter of the one part and Robert Cade junr.
Page 20 - Our Guide and Landlord Enoe-Will was of the best and most agreeable Temper that ever I met with in an Indian, being always ready to serve the English, not out of Gain, but real Affection; which makes him apprehensive of being poison'd by some wicked Indians, and was therefore very earnest with me, to promise him to revenge his Death, if it should so happen.
Page 49 - To tell the plain truth, When I came to this country I was but a youth. My father sent for me: I wa'nt worth a cross, And then my first study was to steal for a horse. I quickly got credit, and then ran away, And haven't paid for him to this very day.
Page 33 - CHAP. ows, enamelled with flowers ; of primeval forests, — ~ where the loftiest branches of the tulip-tree or the magnolia were wrapped in jasmines and honeysuckles. For them the wild bee stored its honey in hollow trees ; for them unnumbered swine fattened on the fruits of the forest or the heaps of peaches ; for them, in spite of their careless lives and imperfect husbandry, cattle multiplied on the pleasant savannahs ; and they desired no greater happiness than they enjoyed.1...
Page 42 - For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From faction ; for none sure will claim in Hell Precedence ; none, whose portion is so small Of present pain, that with ambitious mind Will covet more.
Page 50 - And then my first study was stealing a horse, I quickly got credit, and then ran away, And haven't paid for him to this very day. Says Fanning to Frohock, 'tis folly to lie, I rode an old mare that was blind of...