Overton Sentence Examples

Overton Park has beautiful playgrounds and a good zoological collection.

By a treaty of the 19th of October 1818, negotiated by General Andrew Jackson and General Isaac Shelby, the Chickasaws ceded all their claims east of the Mississippi, and early in 1819 Memphis was laid out in accordance with an agreement entered into by John Overton (1766-1833), Andrew Jackson and James Winchester (1752-1826), the proprietors of the land.

Mr Overton, the warden of the mint, is made one of the Commissioners of Customs, and the king has promised me to make Mr Newton warden of the mint.

I breakfasted at Mrs. Overton's, on whose ground Mr. Wheatley's first tabernacle was built.

Vane, Ludlow, Robert Overton, Harrison and Major Wildman, the head of the Levellers, were all arrested, while the royalist rising under Penruddock was crushed in Devonshire.

I breakfasted at Mrs. Overton 's, on whose ground Mr. Wheatley 's first tabernacle was built.

In 1835 Overton was a township in the parish of Lancaster.