forty five

“Purchased for the small sum of fifteen-millions its sugar interest is annually worth forty five millions and to estimate the wealth which has and will continue to flow from this lucrative source is utterly impossible.”

"Should Texas Be Admitted into the Union?" Debate Speech of William J. Long for the Dialectic Society, June 23, 1837

“Arrived at Sinica in the evening, after travelling forty five miles through an uninhabited wilderness.”

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.

“General Blanchard has ordered all the men under forty five to meet at Cotton post tomorrow morning early, he purposes to make a stand at”

Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865.