Name Index To History Of St Lawrence Co New York 1749 1878

Author : Samuel W. Durant
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282439217
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book History of St. Lawrence Co., New York, 1749-1878 written by Samuel W. Durant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of St. Lawrence Co., New York, 1749-1878: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers The earliest roads and means of communication we e the Indian trail and the canoe, or dug-out, and a score of years elapsed after the first settlement before there were even passable roads for teams. The vast domain of St. Lawrence County comprises 2880 square miles, is in itself equal in area to several of the minor States of the Union, and its history is almost equally important. We have endeavored, in this elaborate and bean tiful volume, to give all the important facts connected with its various interests: Discovery and early settlement; the mission of La Presentation; the military and naval Operations of the early and later wars; the history of its numerous land-titles and prominent land-holders; the planting ofits early schools and churches; its organization into a separate county its courts and boards of supervisors; the founding of its numerous towns and villages; sketches of its promi nent citizens, its attorneys and physicians, its political, agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial interests; its growth and development by decades, with statistics of pcpu lation, taxation, and wealth; its railway and shipping inter ests; its geography, geology, etc., and the grand and noble part taken by its people in the terrible struggle for the preservation of the Union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.