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They had initially selected the land near the Wabash River for its isolation and opportunity for expansion, but the Harmonites were now a great distance from the eastern markets and trade in this location wasn't to their liking.
In times past, the distinction between a Count and a marquess was that a marquess's land, called a march, was on the border of the country, while a count's land, called a county, often wasn't.
The daughters are mentioned a third time, in the Book of Joshua, where they are simply portrayed as being given land in the territory of Manasseh, to which their inheritance entitled them ; the text is unclear in regards to which part of Manasseh's territory they were granted land, except that it wasn't in Gilead.
Manheim was laid out by Henry William Stiegel in 1762 on a land tract in Rapho Township, Pennsylvania, though it wasn't incorporated until 1838.
According to the original land grant, the railroad was to receive every odd numbered section for ten miles ( 16 km ) on each side of its track, but in eastern Kansas which was pretty well settled, much of this land wasn't available.
Near where the town is settled is the Continental Divide which provided good drainage resulting in good logging because the land wasn't wet.
" While a patroonship was granted by the company in 1651 the land wasn't officially settled.
In 1941, Prime Minister Robert Menzies stated that there should be no restrictions on private citizens using the Blue Ensign on land, and in 1947 Prime Minister Ben Chifley reaffirmed this position, but it wasn't until the passage of the Flags Act 1953 that the restriction on civilians flying the Blue Ensign was officially lifted, after which use of the Red Ensign on land became a rarity.
* It wasn't useful for the large, newly surveyed tracts of land being opened in the west, which were being sold sight unseen to investors.
It wasn't until the filling in of the area to form the Blackrock Park that the tower was to be on dry land.
Development of the town was slow at first, particularly after the departure of Macquarie, and it wasn't until 1831 that residents took possession of town land.
It wasn't until 1984 when the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism offered to join the Commission in a joint venture to acquire the land in an attempt to allay the fears of Weyerhaeuser.
Contrary to his plans, this marriage wasn't calmed the situation on the Silesian-Greater Poland border, but allowed Przemysł to recover Kalisz from Duke Władysław of Opole ( who in turn obtain this land from Henry I the Bearded in 1234 ), but failed in his attempt to recover Wieluń, who was only annexed to Greater Poland in 1249.
Despite now he had his own district, Bolesław didn't pursue a foreign policy, who continue under the hands of his brother, a fact revealed during the dispute with Duke Casimir I of Kuyavia for the possession of Ladzka, who was given to him by Henry II the Pious as a dowry of his daughter Constance-Casimir I's second wife -; this decision wasn't recognized by Władysław Odonic's sons, but eventually they reconciled and even signed and an alliance with the Kuyavian Duke, which effectively ended with any attempt to change the ownership of the disputed land.
:"... so Justice Moynihan's decision that Mabo wasn't the rightful heir was irrelevant because the decision that came out was that native title existed and it was up to the Aboriginal or Islander people to determine who owned what land.
While the Parihaka prophet turned his back on all acts of violence, he wasn't going to give up land without a fight.
It wasn't until the 1840s and the California gold rush when outsiders began to arrive in large numbers and taking land and disturbing the Achomawi lifeways.
The airport's 6000 foot main runway wasn't long enough for the first generation of commercial jet airliners such as the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and Convair 880, so the city and county lobbied the U. S. Air Force to investigate converting McCoy Air Force Base, a Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) bomber base about eight miles to the south, to a joint civil-military airport with commercial jet operations on undeveloped land on the east side of the base and military operations on the west side.
Columbus went on land and saw " a piece of land, that looked like an island, but actually wasn't one.

land and all
They all prayed now that the North would realize that peace must come, for Virginia had defended her land victoriously.
He saw the land with a stranger's eyes, all the old familiarness gone.
The urban land use study carried out by the planning division staff has consisted of identifying and mapping all urban land uses which are of significance to statewide planning.
The rural land use study is being carried out under contract by the University of Rhode Island and identifies all agricultural land uses in the state by type of use.
and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Tuesday, October 24th, 1961, as United Nations day, calling upon all our citizens to engage in appropriate observances, demonstrating faith in the United Nations and thereby contributing to a better understanding of the aims of the United Nations throughout the land.
Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.
This work will cover the most serious one-fourth of all land needing such treatment, and will consist of burning 250,000 acres of highly hazardous debris concentration, felling snags on 350,000 acres of high lightning-occurrence areas, prescribed burning on 3.5 million acres, removing roadside fuel on 39,000 acres, and clearing and maintaining 11,000 miles of firebreaks.
To hope to cover just one region of this land and to enjoy all of its sights and events and, of course, to bring back pictures of your experiences, requires advance planning.
I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.
Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.
Buchheister pledged the land would be an `` inviolate '' sanctuary for all birds, animals and plants.
Next we imagine our blizzard raging over all the land areas of the entire globe -- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, all covered with peas four feet deep ; ;
However, in 1816, Thomas lost all of his land in court cases because of faulty property titles.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
An abstract of title lists all the owners of a piece of land, a house, or a building before it came into possession of the present owner.
It includes all land under temporary crops ( double-cropped areas are counted only once ), temporary meadows for mowing or market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow ( less than five years ).
This land was then shared by all the villagers to graze their cattle and sheep.
Anarcho-capitalists argue for a society based on the voluntary trade of private property and services ( in sum, all relationships not caused by threats or violence, including exchanges of money, consumer goods, land, and capital goods ) in order to minimize conflict while maximizing individual liberty and prosperity.

land and Wilson
After looking about a bit, Wilson discovered beyond Black Bottom, across the river and far removed from the white city, a considerable tract of land, and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot.
Wilson was a self-made man who was orphaned in Nashville, Tennessee, came to Alta California as a fur trapper and adventurer during the American Indian Wars before marrying Ramona Yorba, the daughter of a California land baron, Bernardo Yorba, and made his fortune through the wedding dowry, receiving Rancho Jurupa, settling what would become California's San Gabriel Valley, after the Mexican American War.
The village prospered when Wilson decided to use the cleared land for agriculture instead of selling it after logging.
Originally named Wilson Lake in 1875, the land was purchased by the city in 1925 and dedicated as a park.
There were also stations at Wilson in the south of town and Hayden in the north, both named for landowners who provided land for the railroad right of way.
In 1851, Wilson Spruill donated five acres ( two hectares ) of land for the founding of the Sandy Springs United Methodist Church, near the natural spring for which the city is named.
In May 2003, facing a declining population, Marquette joined at least ten other Kansas cities, including Ellsworth, Kanopolis, Holyrood and Wilson, who offer free land to attract residents.
One of the lumber companies donated the land which is now Wilson State Park.
The original plan for the land was development, as advocated by then mayor Louise Wilson.
The residents, however, did not have to wait very long: The state was able to buy land from Charles E. Wilson, a former president of General Motors who needed to sell off his Old Westbury estate to pull himself out of financial crisis and relocate to the nation's capital to serve in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's cabinet.
Wilson Carl began as a pioneer carpenter / builder and shoemaker who became a wealthy land owner, who built a portion of what is now Linfield College, in McMinnville, and was founder of the Republican Party in McMinnville, County Commissioner, and, at one time owned the property that the Yamhill County Courthouse presently sits on.
Wallis worked as a surveyor and assessor for the land company and Wilson was heavily invested in the operation.
According to the The Handbook of Texas, the area where the town is now located was once on land granted to the county in 1892 by the 77 Ranch, owned by S. B. Wilson and Wilson Furneaux.
In 1869, Confederate veterans Captain Jesse Amason and William P. Wilson each donated fifty acres of land for the townsite of Center.
Mr. Wilson owned considerable land in the southern quarter of the town.
The land was first the property of William Anglin, and in succession was owned by John Wilson, Daniel Booth, Ely Butcher, Elmore Hart, Thomas H. Hite and William F. Wilson, who divided it into lots and disposed of the most of it within a few years of the establishing of the county seat.
In 1870, Columbus S. Greenleaf and George R. Wilson filed land claims in the area abandoned by the Sammamish near present-day Bothell, and built homes.
Co-pilot Douglas Wilson managed to land in Austria but the plane suffered significant damage.
God showed Wilson a beautiful land filled with wild game and instructed him to return home to tell his people that they must love each other, not fight, and live in peace with the whites.
This first land success was used by Churchill to boost home morale, and Wilson was awarded the K. C. B.
The Mount Wilson Solar Observatory was first funded by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1904, leasing the land from the owners of the Mount Wilson Hotel in 1904.

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