The Old Northwest: With a View of the Thirteen Colonies as Constituted by the Royal Charters, Volume 1 |
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... drawn from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico , from the southern shore of Lake Ontario to the Rio Grande , and from the source of the Ohio to the source of the Kansas , that will at no point rise 2,000 feet above the level of the ...
... drawn from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico , from the southern shore of Lake Ontario to the Rio Grande , and from the source of the Ohio to the source of the Kansas , that will at no point rise 2,000 feet above the level of the ...
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... drawn between Florida and Georgia and the Carolinas , and the question was never put at rest until she yielded the whole peninsula in 1763. France at first claimed the Atlantic coast south of Nova Scotia under the voyage of Verrazzano ...
... drawn between Florida and Georgia and the Carolinas , and the question was never put at rest until she yielded the whole peninsula in 1763. France at first claimed the Atlantic coast south of Nova Scotia under the voyage of Verrazzano ...
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... drawn on the most carefully constructed maps , answer but a vague general purpose . The French in- cluded Plymouth and New Amsterdam in Acadia , and Spanish maps of the seventeenth century sometimes carry Florida be- yond Quebec . But ...
... drawn on the most carefully constructed maps , answer but a vague general purpose . The French in- cluded Plymouth and New Amsterdam in Acadia , and Spanish maps of the seventeenth century sometimes carry Florida be- yond Quebec . But ...
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... draw the trade of the Northwestern tribes to those northern waters ; the English of New York were seeking to draw it to Hudson River . The competition threatened to become too keen ; for the Englishman offered cheaper goods , and the ...
... draw the trade of the Northwestern tribes to those northern waters ; the English of New York were seeking to draw it to Hudson River . The competition threatened to become too keen ; for the Englishman offered cheaper goods , and the ...
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... drawn to a point so advantageous the greater part of the savages in this country , driven away by fear of the Iroquois . " La Salle's colony of St. Louis was planted in one of the gardens of the world , in the midst of a numerous Indian ...
... drawn to a point so advantageous the greater part of the savages in this country , driven away by fear of the Iroquois . " La Salle's colony of St. Louis was planted in one of the gardens of the world , in the midst of a numerous Indian ...
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Page 98 - ... as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are...
Page 177 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...
Page 146 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with...
Page 95 - River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Page 122 - Indians with whom we are connected, and who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the possession of such parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are reserved to them, or any of them...
Page 187 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 121 - The Government of Quebec bounded on the Labrador coast by the River St John, and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that river through the Lake St. John, to the south end of the Lake Nipissim; from whence the said line, crossing the River St Lawrence, and the Lake Champlain, in 45.
Page 142 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Page 95 - River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or river, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware "Bay, and to the northward as far as the...
Page 191 - ... drawn from the said point due north or south, as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude...