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Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ty, and erroneously sup-to Abraham Lincoln for this prop- posed by some to have been iuerty. It was found by Col. A. C. Mercer County. Boone was aMatthews, of the 99th Illinois, deputy of Colonel Thomas Mar-in 1863, at an abandoned resi- shall, Surveyor of Fayettedence near Indianola, Texas. County. 12 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Chap. I. which he called theKnights of The Gold-en Horseshoe/ and,with a worldly wisdomwhich was scarcelyconsistent with thesemedieval affecta- tions, to press uponthe attention of theBritish Governmentthe building of a lineof frontier forts toguard the Ohio Riverfrom the French.Many years after himthe greatest of all Vir-ginians crossed themountains again, andbecame heavily inter-ested in those schemesof emigration whichfiUed the minds ofmany of the leadingmen in America un-til they were drivenout by graver caresand more imperativeduties. Washingtonhad acquired claimsand patents to theamount of thirty orforty thousand acresof land in the West; 1 Their motto was •a•5
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Sic jurat transcendere monies. LINEAGE 13 Benjamin Franklin and the Lees were also large chap. i.owners of these speculative titles. They formed, itis true, rather an airy and unsubstantial sort ofpossession, the same ground being often claimedby a dozen different persons or companies undervarious grants from the crown or from legislatures,or through purchase by adventurers from Indiancouncils. But about the time of which we are speak-ing the spirit of emigration had reached the lowerstrata of colonial society, and a steady stream ofpioneers began pouring over the passes of the moun-tains into the green and fertile valleys of Kentuckyand Tennessee. They selected their homes in themost eligible spots to which chance or the report ofearlier explorers directed them, with little knowl-edge or care as to the rightful ownership of theland, and too often cleared their corner of the wil-derness for the benefit of others. Even Boone, towhose courage, forest lore, and singular intuitionsof sava

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