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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 6 4 Browse Search
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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)
hmus 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 aAugust, 1749. and the claim to the coast as far west as the Kennebeck had never been abandoned. La Galissoniere to Col. Mascarene, 15 January, 1749. At the West, also, France had uniformly and frankly claimed the whole basin of the Saint Lawrence ring unlimited possessions;—France, to bound British enterprise by the Penobscot or the Kennebeck, Galissoniere to Col. Mascarene, 15 Jan., 1749. and the Alleghanies; England, to bring the continent under her flag, to supply the farthest wigwam fr.} 1749. ants, and had always been denied by the French government. It began to be insinuated, La Galissoniere to Col. Mascarene, 15 January, 1749. that the ceded Acadia was but a part of the peninsula lying upon the sea between Cape Fourches and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
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 in Sir Thomas Robinson to Lieutenant-Governor Lawrence, 13 August, 1755. The number there given was 8,000. When England began vigorously to colonize Nova Scotia, t