. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . IIIM IX(,I)()\ AM)l>LAni COUNT! J:n,,r„sr,l ,,rp,,:~.sls )\\. HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON AND BLAIR COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. HUNTINGDO]:^ COUNTY. CHAPTER I. The English Claim to Pennsylvania—Swedish and Dutch Possession-Final acknowledgment of the English Claim. Christopher Columbus, to whose enterprise andcourage the world is indebted Cor the discoveries thatresulted in opening the western continent as a homefor the oppressed people of Europe, was born in the cityof Genoa, Italy, about the year 1435. At this time alarg
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . IIIM IX(,I)()\ AM)l>LAni COUNT! J:n,,r„sr,l ,,rp,,:~.sls )\\. HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON AND BLAIR COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. HUNTINGDO]:^ COUNTY. CHAPTER I. The English Claim to Pennsylvania—Swedish and Dutch Possession-Final acknowledgment of the English Claim. Christopher Columbus, to whose enterprise andcourage the world is indebted Cor the discoveries thatresulted in opening the western continent as a homefor the oppressed people of Europe, was born in the cityof Genoa, Italy, about the year 1435. At this time alarge and profitable trade was carried on between theEuropean countries and India. Convinced by his de-ductions from the experience of preceding and con-temi)oraneous travelers and navigators, of the magni-tude and globular form of the earth, he wns assuredthat a new rnule to this rich rcgiun W(juld Iw foundby sailing wcstu ardly. For eighteen years he laboredto the end tliat \\r aiiLiht fit out an expedition to ]irac-tically test his scientific opinions. After many rebuffsand disappointments that would have crushed the am-bition of ordina
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