"The first settlers on Holston River were a remarkable race of people for their intelligence, enterprise, and hardy adventure.

The "old settlers," as they are everywhere called, are public benefactors.

The settlers of Plymouth were Separatists; the settlers of Boston and neighboring towns were Non-Conformists.

The first settlers of a new country are a most meritorious class.

The earliest settlers were the picked and chosen men of the yeomanry of England, and generally thrifty and prosperous.

The settlers of Plymouth were Separatists; the settlers of Boston and neighboring towns were Non-Conformists.

The new settlers were almost all soldiers of the Revolutionary armies; they were hardworking, orderly men of trained courage and of keen intellect.

The settlers were healthy folk; what was to come would come; they went about their work and waited.

Oh dear, lackaday, oh, A gentleman settler was Billy Barlow.

The desire of terminating these divisions, which had their root in a difference of religion as well as of race, the French settlers being Roman Catholics, had been one of the chief motives which had led Pitt in 1791 to divide the country into two provinces.

But, as a rule, these better-class settlers were not mere life-long pioneers.

The settlers were still frontiersmen, clad in buckskin or homespun, with rawhide moccasins, living in log-cabins, and sleeping under bearskins on beds made of buffalo hides; but as soon as they ventured to live on their clearings the ground was better tilled, corn became abundant, and cattle and hogs increased as the game diminished.

But old settlers, with all their virtues, are incorrigible laudatores temporis acti.

" The first German settler who came to Virginia was one Jacob Stover, who went there from Pennsylvania, and obtained a grant of five thousand acres of land on the Shenandoah.

The settlers of Plymouth were Separatists; the settlers of Boston and neighboring towns were Non-Conformists.

These early settlers were Rev. Boyd Phelps, Rev. Stephen Jones, Erastus Quivey, Samuel Lewis, Charles McMillin, and John Rhineheart.

The English who live at Boulogne, some for cheapness, some from misfortune, and some from fear, would offer, I should think, a fair sample of the materials which compose the best society in New South Wales; though, I must admit, that the bustling, thriving settler of New South Wales is a companion, rather ignorant though he befar away preferable to the not more enlightened, but melancholy English sluggard of Boulogne.

Many people in the North opposed the admission of Missouri because the settlers of the proposed state were slaveholders.

Even then the restless Danes and frontier settlers were a source of annoyance until about 925, when Edward died; but at his death he was the undisputed king of all Britain, and all the various sub-monarchs and associate rulers gave up their claims to him.

The settlers,as is always the case in frontier towns where the people are wrapped up in their own pursuits and rivalries, and are obliged to talk of one another for lack of outside interests,were divided by bickering, gossiping jealousies; and at this time they were quarrelling as to whether the Virginian cabin-rights or Henderson's land-grants would prove valid.

All the settlers were either landowners, land claimants, or would-be land purchasers.

The settlers were not the first comers in the wilderness they cleared and tilled.

"Actual settlers" were of a great deal more use to him in Massachusetts, where they could vote for him, than in the territories, where that boon would not be extended to them.

The first settlers were mostly Americans, from New York and New England; but before leaving the old farm we used to hear of English, Irish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Welsh settlements.

The first settlers of the American colonies to offer Negroes the same educational and religious privileges they provided for persons of their own race, were the Quakers.