The Early History Of Lorain County An Address Primary Source Edition

Author : Washington Wallace Boynton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366790739
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Early History of Lorain County written by Washington Wallace Boynton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Early History of Lorain County: An Address, Delivered July 4, 1876, at Elyria, Ohio There is little doubt that the conflict] in the earlv charters respecting bound aries grew out of the ignorance of the times in which they were granted, as to the breadth, or inland extent, of the American Continent. During the reign of James the First, Sir Francis Drake reported, that, from the top of the mountains on the Isthmus of Panama, he had seen both oceans. This led to the supposition that the continent, from east to west, was of no considerable extent, and that the South Sea, by which the grants were limited on the west, did not lie very far from the Atlantic; and as. Late as 1740, the Duke of Newcastle addressed his letters to the Island of New England. Hence it Was urged as an argument against the claims of those States asserting title to Western lands, that the call in the grants, of the South Sea, being, by mutual mistake of the parties to the charter, an erroneous one - the error resulting from misinformation or want of certainty concerning the locality of that Sea - the claiming States ought not to insist upon an ownership resting upon such a footing, and having its origin in such a circumstance. Popular feeling on the subject ran so high, at tithes, as to cause apprehension for the safety of the Confederation. In 1780, Congress urged upon the States having claims to the Western country, the duty to make a surrender of a part thereof to the United States. 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.