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Clocker found another ex-servant to become his mate in establishing a tenancy on Cornwaley’s land besides the rent the captain charged perhaps a third tobacco crop was return in improvements Clocker and his mate did housing, fencing, and planting also caring for the orchard always required in a lease.

This novel gives a vivid glimpse of life in early Jamestown. Through this book, we get the perspectives of not only people living in that time period but of actual settlers in Jamestown. Many of John Smith’s work is incorporated in this novel as well. Throughout this novel, we begin to question, how did a settlement that consisted majority of gentlemen become the first English permanent settlement? Through seventeenth-century English documents and first-hand reports, Price answers the question by showing the importance of John Smith and Pocahontas.

The literal scene of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken, is described as a “yellowed wood” (Arp & Johnson, 2009). Use of this description could be that fall is upon the wood or the trees perhaps once white have yellowed with age. Before the traveler is a road split into two different directions, he has no idea where each road leads. In trying to imagine, where each one might lead he tries to “look down each path” (Arp & Johnson, 2009), but to no avail as he can only see as far as the

Oakmont was incorporated on March 4, 1889, but the community began seventy-three years earlier when a farmer named Michael Bright moved onto a 234-acre tract with his family. This area formed a sizable part of Oakmont today Between that time and the creation of the borough, much happened that shaped the town. The town developed from farms owned by early settlers Michael Bright, Jonathan Hulton, David Grier, and Caleb Lee, into a thriving semi-residential, semi-industrial community. Even dating before this there may have been Indian settlements near the mouth of Plum Creek. Indians may not have lived in Oakmont at the time but they definitely hunted here for many flint arrowheads have been found around town mainly near the river and along the banks of Plum Creek. It wasn’t until the late eighteenth century that white men settled in present day Oakmont. The land was offered for thirteen cents per acre and a buyer could establish a claim to a tract by having it surveyed. The purchase price did not have to be paid until a patent for the tract was obtained from Pennsylvania and patenting could be deferred which encouraged land speculation rather than settlement. From 1769 to 1787 George Croghan, John Baird, William Maris, David Mcfee, and John Woods established claims to tracts encompassing all of present day Oakmont. At this time Oakmont was part of Plum Township. Almost all of these men were land speculators who never obtained patents for their tracts but sold their rights to

In the Robert Frost poem ‘’The Road Not Taken’’ there is a pervasive and in many ways intrinsic sense of journey throughout. In such, the poem explores an aspect associated with human decision, or indecision, relative to the oxymoron, that choices with the least the difference should bear the most indifference, but realistically, carry the most difficulty. This is conveyed through the use of several pivotal techniques. Where the first such instance is the use of an extended metaphor, where the poem as a whole becomes a literary embodiment of something more, the journey of life. The second technique used is the writing style of first person. Where in using this, the reader can depict a clear train of thought from the walker and understand

Daniel Harrison came into the Shenandoah Valley from Delaware in 1737 with his entire family. Daniel Harrison moved in 1745 to the area of Cook’s Creek and right around 1748 built a stone house on a rise above Cooks Creek. By the time of the Revolutionary War, a road was constructed through the Harrison property. With an increased demand for iron and the growth of Miller’s Iron Works at Mossy Creek, several miles south of the Harrison’s’

The builder of this seventeen room Greek revival mansion was Stephen S. Speakman. In the early 1840s, the elderly Speakman fell in love with a much younger woman, Sarah Bush, whose father owned a slave-holding plantation in Kentucky. Upon asking her hand in marriage, his bride-to-be refused to marry him unless he built her a southern plantation-style mansion. In 1845, with the use of his father-in-law’s slaves, Speakman erected his mansion on a five hundred acre plot next to Loughery Creek with every brick baked on site (Historical Marker Project).

Benjamin Tappan, Jr., an attorney from Connecticut, was the first person to settle in Western Reserve’s Township 3, Range 8, now known as Ravenna, Ohio. His father owned more than 10,000 acres in the southern two thirds of the township. Tappan Jr. moved there in June 1799, traveling part of the way with David Hudson, who was on his way to settle the nearby township bearing his name. With his father’s power of attorney, Tappan Jr. divided the land into 66 lots of about 160 acres each to be sold to settlers. He selected a site in the center of his land for the town.

Sheltered amongst the trees along the Monongahela River, just 15 miles south of Pittsburgh, early travelers located some of the most fertile soil and picturesque landscape that they had ever laid their eyes on. A simply amazing discovery, the area was not only perfect for boat and ship building, but it offered a hub for various forms for incorporating businesses into the area, and it offered conditions perfect for liveability during the heat of summer and the brutal winters that western Pennsylvania is known for. Sometime during the mid to late 1700s, settlers from New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware began moving into the area now known as Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, taking advantage of the lush foliage and generous farmland that sat nestled

And also like in the poem the road not taken , a man was trying to figure out which road he should take “ Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both ,And be one traveler , long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then look the other

About ten miles to the south in Cabarrus County (then part of Mecklenburg County until 1792), was another German settlement, established in the early 1740s. It lay about two miles north of the Town of Mount Pleasant on Dutch Buffalo Creek (now called Big Buffalo Creek). Like their kinsmen in Rowan County, the settlers were Lutheran and German Reformed, and they built a log meeting house and schoolhouse in order to provide for instruction of their children in the fundamentals of the Bible and Christian faith, and a basic education in reading, writing and arithmetic. The two groups used the “Dutch Buffalo Meeting House” for about thirty years and then separated. The Lutherans relocated near where St. John’s Lutheran Church now stands in Concord,

In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, Frost shows the everyday human struggle to make a choice that could change the course of one’s life. In his poem, a person has the choice to take one road or the other. One road is worn out from many people taking it, and the other is barely touched, for fewer have taken that road. Throughout the poem, the speaker learns that just because so many other people have done one thing, or walked one way, does not mean everyone has to. Sometimes you just have to go your own way.

"He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind." While he journeys

In the poem “The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost uses an extended metaphor of two roads to develop the theme of the hard decisions in life. One example of this is, “And be one traveler, long I stood” in (Frost 3). That means that the author is a traveler with a hard decision to make, also meaning he stood for a long period of time thinking about his decision. Another example is “Through as far that passing there, had worry them really about the same.” (Frost 9). One last example is, “Two roads diverged into in a wood and I took the road less traveled by.” (Frost 18.) Meaning, instead of taking the road that everyone else traveled he took the one less traveled. You’re going to have hard decisions in life, but sometimes dare

The lord’s land covered a few miles of land. Most lord’s owned a manor house, a church, and workshops. Streams would pass through villages and would provide fish, while the mill was used for grinding