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  • Croghan's blunt journal entry records her passing, "Alequeapy, ye old quine is dead."

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • Taking the left hand branch, you are soon brought to "Croghan's Hall," which is nine miles from the mouth, and is the farthest point explored in that direction.

    Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter Alexander Clark Bullitt

  • Though in unexpected manner, Croghan's mission was accomplished, and, with many evidences of favor from the natives, he went on to Detroit and thence to Niagara, where he reported to Johnson that the situation in the West was ripe for the establishment of English sovereignty.

    The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • Indians with Croghan's band were Cherokees, the Kickapoos 'most deadly enemies.

    The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • Virginia, were instigating the war appears to have arisen out of the conduct of Dr. John Connolly, Dunmore's agent and Croghan's nephew.

    Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908

  • "We have arranged that Miss de Contrecoeur is to share my room with me at Croghan's," said Mrs. Bleecker.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • So, two and two, we walked along the road to Croghan's house, where was

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • At the door of Croghan's house we gathered to make our adieux, then first went mincing our Ensign about his precious business; and then

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • She was now very serious and sweet with me on our way to Croghan's, not jeering at me or at any of her teasing tricks, but conversing reasonably and prettily, and with that careless confidence which to a man is always pleasant and sometimes touching.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • Then, mending my pace, I hastened to Croghan's house, and found Mrs. Bleecker pacing the foot-path and nibbling fennel.

    The Hidden Children 1899

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