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1764. Government of Louisiana transferred to Spain 425 St. Louis established as a fur-trading station

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1765. South Carolina's exported rice and indigo. 372 Treaties entered into between the British and

the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Creeks 395 Trade between North Carolina and New

Orleans opened . .

Western Indians submitted to the British and

treaty made at Niagara

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Fort Chartres surrendered to the British
Stamp Act passed . .

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The Virginia burgesses adopted Patrick
Henry's resolutions.

North Carolina forcibly resisted the execution of the provisions of the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act denounced in the congress of State delegates at New York. Georgia opposed the distribution of the stamps 1766. General Assembly of West Florida consti

tuted . .

Barbadians settled at Mosquito Inlet to en-
gage in shipbuilding

The Stamp Act repealed.

1767. The state of Pensacola described by Haldi

mand

1768. Circuits instituted in Carolina

Treaties of Fort Stanwix and Hard Labor
settled rights of Iroquois and Chero-
kees

Insurrection at New Orleans against Spanish

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Spain under O'Reilly recovered possession

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1770. British settlement on the Mississippi began . 402 South Carolina erected a statue to Pitt in recognition of his opposition to the Stamp Act

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1774. A Chamber of Commerce established in

Charlestown.

Province of Quebec extended to the Ohio
Harrodsburg built. .

1775. New England colonists settled at Natchez
The Transylvania Company founded Boones-
borough (the beginning of Kentucky)
1777. Washington County, North Carolina, con-
stituted

1778. Clark conquered for Virginia the old Illinois Louisville founded

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1780. St. Louis attacked by the Sioux. 1781. First East Florida Assembly met

St. Joseph captured by the Spaniards West Florida surrendered to Spain. 1783. East Florida surrendered to Spain

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME III

FACING PAGE

Sir Thomas West, third Lord De la Warr, founder of the first permanent English settlement in America. First Governor and Captain-general of Virginia, April 15, 1609. After the painting in the State Library, Richmond, Virginia .

From the original

Joliet's map of the Mississippi, dated 1674.
in the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris

Map of Virginia drawn by John White, "who was sent thither
speciallye and for the same purpose by Sir Walter Raleigh
in the year 1585." From the copperplate engraved by
Theodore de Bry, which appeared in Richard Hakluyt's
"True Pictures and Fashions of the people in that parte of
America now called Virginia".

Ancient mace of the borough of Norfolk, and seals of Sir Walter
Raleigh as Governor, Warden of the Stanneries, and per-
sonal. From the originals in possession of the Virginia
Historical Society.

Captain John Smith. From the copperplate by John Davies, in
possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Copperplate title of John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles. From the original in possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Thomas, Lord Culpepper. Patentee of Virginia and governor for life. From the painting in possession of the Virginia Historical Society

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Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle.
Waltner

title

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49

64

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177

From the engraving by Henri

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FACING PAGE

Map of part of the Province of Texas, sent by the Viceroy of New Spain on April 18, 1757. Traced from the original, especially for this work, by D. Pedro Torres Lanzas, Chief of the Archives, from the hitherto unpublished original in the Archives of the Indies, Seville .

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Title-page showing the English, Spanish, and French names of the southern territory, printed in London in 1741. From the original in the Howard Memorial Library, New Orleans. 256 Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, Governor of Louisiana. From the engraving by Laguillermie, in Margy's “Decouvertes et Établissements des Français," in the New York Public Library, Lenox Branch .

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Founder of Louisiana.

From the

engraving by Laguillermie, in Margy's "Découvertes et
Etablissements des Français," in the New York Public
Library, Lenox Branch

James Edward Oglethorpe. From the engraving by W. Great-
back, after an original in possession of George Wymberly
Jones

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Robert Dinwiddie, Governor of Virginia. From a painting in
possession of a member of the family
Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-governor of Virginia. From
the photograph, of the original painting, published by the
Virginia Historical Society

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Henry Bouquet, 1719-1765. Brigadier-general in the French and Indian War. After the original painting in Independence Hall, Philadelphia .

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Thomas Broughton, Lieutenant-governor of South Carolina.
From the original pastel made by Henrietta Johnson, circa
1712, now in possession of Miss Marion Bryan .
The earliest portraits of Washington. Showing an alleged pre-
liminary study of head on the left and the corresponding portion
from the finished painting made by C. W. Peale in 1772
Joseph Habersham, of Georgia. After the painting by Charles
Willson Peale, in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
Noble Wimberly Jones, of Georgia. After the painting by John
Wesley Jarvis, in Independence Hall, Philadelphia

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David Ramsay, of South Carolina. After the painting by Charles
Willson Peale, now in Independence Hall, Philadelphia .

Christopher Gadsden, of South Carolina. After the painting by
Charles Willson Peale, now in Independence Hall, Philadel-
phia

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George Mason, of Virginia. After the painting by Gilbert Stuart 416 Peyton Randolph, of Virginia. After the painting in possession of the Virginia Historical Society

Patrick Henry. After the original painting by Thomas Sully, in possession of William Wirt Henry, Esq., of Richmond, Virginia

John Rutledge, of South Carolina. After the painting by Trumbull, in possession of Mrs. B. H. Rutledge, of Charleston, South Carolina

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South Carolina. After the painting by Rembrandt Peale, in possession of the Samuel Adams Society.

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