History of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, North America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa and Europe ...: From the Official Records of the Colonial OfficeW. H. Allen, 1843 - 906 страници |
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... POSSESSIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA . - Demerara , Essequibo , Berbice , Honduras , and the Falkland Islands . - BOOK III . - POSSESSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA . · Canada ( Upper and Lower ) , New Brunswick , Nova Scotia , Cape Breton , Prince ...
... POSSESSIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA . - Demerara , Essequibo , Berbice , Honduras , and the Falkland Islands . - BOOK III . - POSSESSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA . · Canada ( Upper and Lower ) , New Brunswick , Nova Scotia , Cape Breton , Prince ...
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... possession of the Spaniards until the 3rd May , 1655 , when Jamaica was conquered from the Spaniards by a large armament , fitted out by Oliver Cromwell , and commanded by Gen. Venables and Admiral Penn . From thence to the present ...
... possession of the Spaniards until the 3rd May , 1655 , when Jamaica was conquered from the Spaniards by a large armament , fitted out by Oliver Cromwell , and commanded by Gen. Venables and Admiral Penn . From thence to the present ...
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... possession of the island . The troubles in England during the commonwealth and the early years of the restoration , contributed materially to people our western colonies , and the following is a census of the whole island about seven ...
... possession of the island . The troubles in England during the commonwealth and the early years of the restoration , contributed materially to people our western colonies , and the following is a census of the whole island about seven ...
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... possession of Trinidad in 1588 , when they fell a sacrifice to the cupidity and religious bigotry of the Castilians , who , as in Jamaica , drafted off to the mines those who escaped a more sanguinary death by fire or the sword ; but a ...
... possession of Trinidad in 1588 , when they fell a sacrifice to the cupidity and religious bigotry of the Castilians , who , as in Jamaica , drafted off to the mines those who escaped a more sanguinary death by fire or the sword ; but a ...
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... possession of France , a few French settlers esta- blished themselves in the island , and on the breaking out of hostilities between England and France , General Cuyler , in March , 1793 , at the head of 2,000 men , took possession of ...
... possession of France , a few French settlers esta- blished themselves in the island , and on the breaking out of hostilities between England and France , General Cuyler , in March , 1793 , at the head of 2,000 men , took possession of ...
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Страница 143 - Comprehending all Islands within Twenty Leagues of any Part of the Shores of the United States, and lying between Lines to be drawn due East from the Points where the aforesaid Boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one Part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such Islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the Limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Страница 257 - Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Страница 159 - Britain; and that in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, resort shall be had to the laws of Canada as the rule for the decision of the same...
Страница 143 - Bay, including all the territory to the westward and southward of the said line, to the utmost extent of the country commonly called or known by the name of Canada...
Страница 257 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Страница 257 - Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use...
Страница 12 - ... as near as conveniently may be, agreeable to the laws and statutes of this our kingdom of England.
Страница 143 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence straight to the head of St Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Страница 257 - His Britannic Majesty, stipulating for himself and his Allies, engages to restore to his most Christian Majesty, within the term which shall be hereafter fixed, the colonies, fisheries, factories and establishments of every kind, which were possessed by France on the 1st of January, 1792, in the seas and on the continents of America, Africa, and Asia, with the exception however of the islands of Tobago and St.
Страница 258 - Islands, on the Western and Northern Coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, and also on the Coasts, Bays, Harbours, and Creeks from Mount Joly on the Southern Coast of Labrador, to and through the Straits of Belleisle and thence Northwardly indefinitely along the Coast...