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It took three years for her parents to accept the match. In time, George Swilling became owner of the plantation. When Jack Swilling was 14, the family moved from South Carolina to Georgia. Three years later he and an older brother enlisted in a mounted battalion of Georgia volunteers for service during the Mexican–American War. After the war ...
The Deerslayer was the most successful of an early series, the Leatherstocking Tales, about pioneer life in New York. Little House on the Prairie, a century later, typified a later series of novels describing a pioneer family. Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett are two real-life icons of pioneer history. [citation needed]
Just sixty years ago! But years rolled on and swept away Their trials and their foes, And soon the wilderness was made To blossom as the rose, The bleating of the gentle sheep, The lowing of the kine, Were heard, where once the panther screamed In days of Old Lang Syne. Our worthy Sires, all danger o'er Now felt life's joyous flow-
Samuel Prescott Hildreth was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1783.His father, Dr. Samuel Hildreth of Massachusetts, was a physician with a regiment of volunteers during the American Revolutionary War, served as surgeon aboard a privateer, and became a prisoner-of-war.
The DuBois Pioneer Home is turning 125 years old. The home, pictured here, was built in 1898 along the banks of the Jupiter Inlet by Harry DuBois as a wedding present to his new bride, Susan.
David Morgan (12 May 1721 – 19 May 1813), sometimes known as "The Great Indian Fighter", was a soldier, mountaineer, pioneer, and frontiersman in what is now the state of West Virginia. He was born in Christiana, New Castle, Delaware, the third child of Morgan Morgan and Catherine Garretson Morgan, traditionally stated to be the first white ...
Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago, authorities announced Thursday.
Mary Ann Adams Maverick (March 16, 1818 – February 24, 1898), was an early Texas pioneer and author of memoirs which form an important source of information about daily life in and around San Antonio during the Republic of Texas period through the American Civil War.