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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
of a century before the war, it had never ceased to be a subject of altercation. In this wavering condition of an accepted treaty of peace and an undetermined limit of jurisdiction, each party hurried to occupy in advance as much territory as possible, without too openly compromising their respective governments. Acadia, according to its ancient boundaries, belonged to Great Britain; but France had always, even in times of profound peace, Representation of the Board of Trade to the king, 1721. urgently declared that Acadia included only the peninsula; before the restoration of Cape Breton, an officer from Canada had occupied the isthmus between Baye Verte and the Bay of Fundy; a small colony kept possession of the mouth of the St. John's River; Col. Mascarene to the Board of Trade, 2 June, 1749. Lords of Trade to Bedford, 10 August, 1749. De Boisherbert, French Commandant at St. John's, to Colonel Cornwallis, 16 August, 1749. Cornwallis to Lords of Trade, 20 August, 1749. and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
s were of unaffected purity. Love was sanctified and calmed by the universal custom of early marriages. The neighbors of the community would assist the new couple to raise their cottage, while the wilderness offered land. Their numbers increased, and the colony, which had begun only as the trading station of a company, with a monopoly of the fur-trade, counted, perhaps, sixteen or seventeen thousand inhabitants. Shirley said 16,000, Raynal and Haliburton, 17,000. The Board of Trade, in 1721, put the number vaguely at nearly 3,000; these, in 1755, but for emigration to French America, would hardly have become more than 10,000; but there were more. Mascarene to Lords of Trade, 17 Oct., 1748, says, there were 4,000 or 5,000 French inhabitants, able to bear arms. Lieutenant-Governor Lawrence, in his circular to the different governors, 11 August, 1755, refers to those only who remained after large emigrations. Compare too Lawrence's State of the English and French Forts, quoted i
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
eir share of assistance; and to keep the Five Nations firm in friendship. Rewards were to be given for all executions done by the Indians on the enemy, and the scalps they should bring in to be well paid for. Plantations General, A. 59. In 1721, this plan of a military dictatorship was, in a most elaborate state paper, revived and modified. All the provinces were to be placed under the government of one lord-lieutenant or captain-general, to be constantly attended by two or more council the inhabitants. By this means, it was thought, a general contribution of men or money might be raised upon the several colonies, in proportion to their respective abilities. See the elaborate Representation of the Lords of Trade to the King, 1721. N. Y. Lon. Documents. How an American revenue was to flow from such an appointment was not fully disclosed. At that time the Earl of Stair The Earl of Stair's Plan of Government, is in the British Museum. was selected as viceroy; but he decl