A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America : containing I. Some general Account of ancient and modern Colonies, the granting and settling of the British Continent and West-India Island Colonies, with some transient Remarks concerning the adjoining French and Spanish Settlements, and other Remarks of various Natures. II. The Hudson's-Bay Company's Lodges, Fur and Skin Trade. III. Newfoundland Harbours and Cod-Fishery. IV. The Province of L'Acadie or Nova Scotia; with the Vicissitudes of the Property and Jurisdiction thereof, and its present State. V. The several Grants of Sagadahock, Province of Main, Massachusetts-Bay, and New-Plymouth, united by a new Charter in the present Province of Massachusetts-Bay, commonly called New-England / by William Douglass.
1760
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A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America : containing I. Some general Account of ancient and modern Colonies, the granting and settling of the British Continent and West-India Island Colonies, with some transient Remarks concerning the adjoining French and Spanish Settlements, and other Remarks of various Natures. II. The Hudson's-Bay Company's Lodges, Fur and Skin Trade. III. Newfoundland Harbours and Cod-Fishery. IV. The Province of L'Acadie or Nova Scotia; with the Vicissitudes of the Property and Jurisdiction thereof, and its present State. V. The several Grants of Sagadahock, Province of Main, Massachusetts-Bay, and New-Plymouth, united by a new Charter in the present Province of Massachusetts-Bay, commonly called New-England / by William Douglass.
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Kitchin, Thomas, 1719-1784, engraver.
Imprint
London : Printed for R. And J. Dodsley, 1760.
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[Buffalo, New York] : William S. Hein & Co., [between 2009 and 2013]
Description
1 online resource (2 volumes) : map.
Series
World constitutions illustrated.
Prestatehood legal materials.
Prestatehood legal materials.
Note
Originally issued in numbers of 16 p., each with cover-title; v. 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; v. 2, Apr. 1750-Nov. 1752. Left unfinished at the author's death in October 1752.
Sub-title of v. 2: Containing I. The history of the provinces and colonies of New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York ... their several original settlements and gradual improvements; their boundaries; produce and manufactures, trade and navigation, laws and government. II. Their natural history, religious sectaries, paper currencies and other miscellanies. III. Several medical digressions, with a curious dissertation on the treatment of the small-pox, and inoculation.
"A digression concerning the small-pox": p. 392-414, v. 2.
The map is signed: Tho. Kitchin sculpt.; caption reads: Published for the Present state of North America &c. and sold by R. & I. Dodsley in Pall-mall 1755.
Tail-piece at the end of v. 1.
Sub-title of v. 2: Containing I. The history of the provinces and colonies of New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York ... their several original settlements and gradual improvements; their boundaries; produce and manufactures, trade and navigation, laws and government. II. Their natural history, religious sectaries, paper currencies and other miscellanies. III. Several medical digressions, with a curious dissertation on the treatment of the small-pox, and inoculation.
"A digression concerning the small-pox": p. 392-414, v. 2.
The map is signed: Tho. Kitchin sculpt.; caption reads: Published for the Present state of North America &c. and sold by R. & I. Dodsley in Pall-mall 1755.
Tail-piece at the end of v. 1.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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English
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Present state of North America.
History of the provinces and colonies of New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York.
Dissertation on the treatment of the small-pox, and inoculation.
History of the provinces and colonies of New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York.
Dissertation on the treatment of the small-pox, and inoculation.
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