47 examples of courtland in sentences

" They walked on till they reached the ferry at the foot of Courtland Street.

On reaching the city, I fixed my lodgings at a point on the banks of the Hudson, or rather at its point of confluence with the noble bay (71 Courtland), where I could overlook its islands and busy water craft, ever in motion.

How long must the patriot and philanthropist sigh for the termination of such driveling and delusion!" After a labor at my table of about fourteen weeks, the manuscript was all delivered to my printers; and I returned to New York, and took up my abode in my old quarters at 71 Courtland.

ED.] "Mrs. Barr, wife of Rev. H. Barr of Carrollton, Illinois, formerly from Courtland, Alabama, told me last spring, that she has very often stopped her ears that she might not hear the screams of slaves who were under the lash, and that sometimes she has left her house, and retired to a place more distant, in order to get away from their agonizing cries.

Since writing the preceding, I have been to Carrollton, on a visit to my uncle, Rev. Hugh Barr, who was originally from Tennessee, lived 12 or 14 years in Courtland, Lawrence county, Alabama, and moved to Illinois in 1835.

In conversation with the family, around the fireside, they stated a multitude of horrid facts, that were perfectly notorious in the neighborhood of Courtland.

Visiting at a Mr. Mosely's, near Courtland, William Mosely came in with a bloody knife in his hand, having just stabbed a negro man.

"John Brown, a slaveholder, and a member of the Presbyterian church in Courtland, Alabama, stated the following a few weeks since, in Carrollton.

A man near Courtland, of the name of Thompson, recently shot a negro woman through the head; and put the pistol so close that her hair was singed.

"William P. Barr stated the following, as facts well known in the neighborhood of Courtland, but not witnessed by himself.

"A man in the neighborhood of Courtland, Alabama, by the name of Puryear, was so proverbially cruel that among the negroes he was usually called 'the Devil.'

He would stand at his house, and watch the slaves picking cotton; and if any of them straitened their backs for a moment, his savage yell would ring, 'bend your backs.' "Mrs. Barr stated, that Mrs. H, of Courtland, a member of the Presbyterian church, sent a little negro girl to jail, suspecting that she had attempted to put poison in the water pail.

In conversation with the family, around the fireside, they stated a multitude of horrid facts, that were perfectly notorious in the neighborhood of Courtland.

Gerard Alleman (NK); 8Jul59; R239493. ALLEN, COURTLAND, illus. Like a Gloucesterman.

Courtland Allen, illustrator.

Richard T. Cotton (A); 23Dec68; R451127. COURTLAND, ROBERTA.

SEE Courtland, Roberta.

SEE Courtland, Roberta. GRANGE, WILLIAM J. Real estate; a practical guide to ownership, transfer, mortgaging, and leasing of real property.

By Roberta Courtland, pseud. of Peggy Gaddis.

By Roberta Courtland, pseud. of Peggy Gaddis.

By Courtland D. Perkins & Robert E. Hage.

Courtland D. Perkins & Robert E. Hage (A); 6Jul77; R666374. R666375.

Richard T. Cotton (A); 23Dec68; R451127. COURTLAND, ROBERTA.

SEE Courtland, Roberta.

By Roberta Courtland, pseud. of Peggy Gaddis Dean.

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