Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 5 (of 8) The English and French in North America 1689-1763

THE death of Frontenac[1097] and the peace of Ryswick (September, 1697) found France in possession of the two great valleys of North America,—that of the St. Lawrence, with the...

ANDROS, with Joseph Dudley and other satellites, made safe in Castle William, the revolution in New England was accomplished, and the veteran Simon Bradstreet was at the head of...

THE story of the French occupation in America is not that of a people slowly moulding itself into a nation. In France there was no state but the king; in Canada there could be n...

THE thirteenth volume of the New York Colonial Manuscripts contains a document called “Rolle van t’Volck sullende met het Schip den Otter na Niēu Nederlandt overvaren,” April 24...

NORTH CAROLINA: PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT.—It was certainly manifest to England that her claim to vast regions of valuable territory would be substantiated, and her commerce and po...

Court, urging that their children should not be bound out to service. Cf. also Aaron Hobart’s _Abington_, App. F., and “Lancaster in Acadie and Acadiens in Lancaster,” by H. S....

volume contains a discourse before the Historical Society of Louisiana by Henry A. Bullard, its president (originally issued at New Orleans, 1836; cf. Sabin, vol. iii. no. 9,116...

ALL through its early history Acadia, or Nova Scotia, suffered from the insecurity to life and property which arose from its repeated changes of masters. Neither France nor Engl...

[547] Muller, _Books on America_, 1872, no. 1,211; 1877, no. 2,903: Brinley, _Catal._, ii. no. 3,093. His book is called _Getrouw Verhaal van den waren toestant der meest Herder...

ACTING under the orders of Admiral Coligny, Captain Ribault, before selecting a location for his fort and planting his Huguenot colony near the mouth of Port Royal, traversed wh...

further than to question his prudence in not providing a larger escort. (Warburton, _Conquest of Canada_, ii. 67.) Potter (_Adj.-Gen. Rep. of N. H._, 1866, ii. 190) says that of...

Jones, Jr. (also published separately), and _Itinerant Observations in America_, reprinted from the London Magazine of 1745-6. In the _Dead Towns of Georgia_ the author perpetua...

MARYLAND began its career as a crown province with conditions similar to those which had regulated its growth under the Proprietary. There was nothing within its limits worthy t...

The printed materials on the French side are not nearly so numerous as on the English. Of importance is Thomas Pichon’s[1034] _Lettres et Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du Ca...

_Collections_ is a translation of Penicaut’s _Annals of Louisiana from 1698 to 1722_. The translation was made from a manuscript in the National Library at Paris. Kaskaskia in I...

ILLUSTRATIONS: French Soldier (1700), 484; British Infantry Soldier (1725), 485; Popple’s Map of Lakes Champlain and George (1732), 486; View of Quebec (1732), 488; British Foot...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Autographs of John Gyles, 421; of Francis Nicholson and Samuel Vetch, 422; View of Annapolis Royal, 423; Autographs of Vaudreuil, 424; of the Signers of the Confe...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Map of New England (1688), 88; Elisha Cooke, the Elder, 89; Seal of Massachusetts Province, 93; Bellomont, 97; Samuel Sewall, 100; Hertel, Seigneur de Rouville, 1...

ILLUSTRATIONS: La Présentation, 3; Autograph of Callières, 4; of Vaudreuil, 5; of Beauharnois, 7; of La Jonquière and of La Galissonière, 8; One of Céloron’s Plates, 9; Portrait...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Autograph of Jacob Leisler, 189; of Lord Cornbury, 192; of Governor Fletcher, with Seal, 194; of Lovelace, 196; of Governor Hunter, with Seal, 196; of Rip van Dam...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Map of North Carolina (1663-1729), 285; Autographs of the Lords Proprietors (Clarendon, Ashley, Albemarle, G. Carteret, Craven, John Berkeley, Will. Berkeley, Jam...

Trustees and others, covering a period from October, 1735, to August, 1744,—a report of Governor Sir James Wright to Lord Dartmouth, dated September 20th, 1773, exhibiting the c...

ILLUSTRATIONS: General Oglethorpe, 362; Map of South Carolina and Georgia (1733), 365; Early View of Savannah, 368; Tomo-chi-chi Mico, 371; Map of the County of Savannah (Urlspe...

Stevens, M. D., and reprints of _A New Voyage to Georgia_, &c.; of _A State of the Province of Georgia attested upon Oath in the Court of Savannah, November 10, 1740_; of _A Bri...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Map of Maryland, _opp._ 273; Map of Virginia (1738), 274; William Byrd, 275; Map of Northern Neck of Virginia (1736-1737), 277; William and Mary College, 279; Aut...