Contents and Illustrations

[The cut on the title shows the medal struck to commemorate the fall of Quebec.]

CHAPTER I.

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Canada and Louisiana. Andrew McFarland Davis

Illustrations: La Présentation, ; Autograph of Callières, ; of Vaudreuil, ; of Beauharnois, ; of La Jonquière and of La Galissonière, ; One of Céloron’s Plates, ; Portrait of Lemoyne d’Iberville, with Autograph, ; Environs du Mississipi (1700), ; Portrait of Bienville, with Autograph, ; Autograph of Lamothe, ; of Lepinay, ; Fac-simile of Bill of the Banque Royale, ; Plans of New Orleans, , ; View of New Orleans, ; Map of the Mississippi, near New Orleans, ; Fort Rosalie and Environs, ; Plan of Fort Chartres, ; Autograph of Vaudreuil, .

Critical Essay

Illustrations: Autograph of La Harpe, ; Portrait of Charlevoix, with Autograph, ; Autograph of Le Page, ; Map of the Mouths of the Mississippi, ; Autograph of De Vergennes, ; Coxe’s Map of Carolana, .

Editorial Notes

Illustrations: Portrait of John Law, ; his Autograph, .

CARTOGRAPHY OF LOUISIANA AND THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN UNDER THE FRENCH DOMINATION. The Editor

Illustrations: Map of Louisiana, in Dumont, ; Huske’s Map (1755), ; Map of Louisiana, by Le Page du Pratz, .

CHAPTER II.

New England, 1689-1763. The Editor

Illustrations: Map of New England (1688), ; Elisha Cooke, the Elder, ; Seal of Massachusetts Province, ; Bellomont, ; Samuel Sewall, ; Hertel, Seigneur de Rouville, ; The Four Maquas (Indians), opp. ; Draft of Boston Harbor, opp. ; Ground Plan of Castle William, opp. ; British Soldiers (1701-1714), ; Gurdon Saltonstall, with Autograph, ; William Dummer, ; Jeremiah Dummer, ; Elisha Cooke, the Younger, ; Thomas Prince, ; Boston Light and Province Sloop, ; Increase Mather, ; Mather Byles, ; George II., ; Popple’s Map of New England, ; An English Fleet, ; Benjamin Pollard, ; Autograph of Benning Wentworth, ; Portrait and Autograph of George Berkeley, ; William Shirley, ; Popple’s Chart of Boston Harbor, .

Critical Essay. The Editor

Illustrations: Hannah Adams, ; John Gorham Palfrey, .

Editorial Notes

Illustrations: Rhode Island Twelve-Pence Bill, ; Rhode Island Three-Shillings Bill, ; New Hampshire Five-Shillings Bill, ; New Hampshire Three-Pounds Bill, ; Plan of Fort Halifax, ; Autograph of Wm. Lithgow, ; of Jabez Bradbury, ; Flanker of Fort Halifax, ; Restoration of Fort Halifax, ; Block House (1714), ; Plans of Fort Anson, .

CHAPTER III.

Middle Colonies. Berthold Fernow

Illustrations: Autograph of Jacob Leisler, ; of Lord Cornbury, ; of Governor Fletcher, with Seal, ; of Lovelace, ; of Governor Hunter, with Seal, ; of Rip van Dam, ; of Governor Clinton, with Seal, ; of Governor James De Lancey, with Seal, ; of Governor Cadwallader Colden, with Seal, ; of Governor Robert Monckton, with Seal, .

Critical Essay. (Manuscript sources, by Mr. Fernow)

(Cartography and Boundaries of the Middle Colonies, by Mr. Fernow and the Editor)

Illustrations: Cadwallader Colden’s Map in fac-simile, ; Map of Pennsylvania (1756), .

Editorial Notes

Illustrations: Autograph of Daniel Horsmanden, ; Views of New York (1732), ; (1746), ; (1761), ; Plans of New York City (1695), ; of New York and Perth Amboy Harbor (1732), ; of New York (1755), ; (1763), ; (1764, by Bellin), ; Heap’s East Prospect of Philadelphia (1754-1761), .

CHAPTER IV.

Maryland and Virginia. The Editor

Illustrations: Frederick, Lord Baltimore, ; Alexander Spotswood, ; Robert Dinwiddie, with Autograph, .

Critical Essay

Illustrations: Map of Maryland, opp. ; Map of Virginia (1738), ; William Byrd, ; Map of Northern Neck of Virginia (1736-1737), ; William and Mary College, ; Autograph of Hugh Jones, ; Map of Part of Colonial Virginia, opp. ; Fac-simile of Title of Apostolic Charity, by Thomas Bray (1700), .

CHAPTER V.

The Carolinas. William J. Rivers

Illustrations: Map of North Carolina (1663-1729), ; Autographs of the Lords Proprietors (Clarendon, Ashley, Albemarle, G. Carteret, Craven, John Berkeley, Will. Berkeley, James Colleton), ; Map of Cooper and Ashley Rivers, ; Plan of Charlestown, S. C. (1732), ; View of Charlestown (1742), .

Critical Essay. The Editor

Illustrations: Autograph of John Locke, ; Shapley’s Sketch-Map of the Carolina Coast (1662), ; Map (1666), ; Lederer’s Map (1669-1670), ; Morden’s Map (1687), ; Plan of Charlestown (1704), ; Autographs of John Archdale and John Oldmixon, ; Carolina War-Map (1711-1715), ; Indian Map of South Carolina (1730), ; Moll’s Map of Carolina (1730), ; Autograph of George Chalmers, .

NOTE ON THE LATER HISTORIES OF CAROLINA. The Editor

CHAPTER VI.

The English Colonization of Georgia, 1733-1752. Charles C. Jones, Jr.

Illustrations: General Oglethorpe, ; Map of South Carolina and Georgia (1733), ; Early View of Savannah, ; Tomo-chi-chi Mico, ; Map of the County of Savannah (Urlsperger), ; Map of Coast Settlements before 1743, ; Map of Coast from St. Augustine to Charlestown, S. C., with Map of Simon’s Island (Urlsperger), ; Plan of St. Augustine (1763), ; Map of Coast of Florida (1742), ; Map of Harbor and Town of St. Augustine (1742), ; Whitefield, .

Critical Essay

CHAPTER VII.

The Wars on the Seaboard: Acadia and Cape Breton. Charles C. Smith

Critical Essay

AUTHORITIES ON THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS OF NEW ENGLAND AND ACADIA, 1688-1763. The Editor

Illustrations: Autographs of John Gyles, ; of Francis Nicholson and Samuel Vetch, ; View of Annapolis Royal, ; Autographs of Vaudreuil, ; of the Signers of the Conference, January 16, 1713-14 (J. Dudley, Francis Nicholson, William Tailer, W. Winthrop, Elisha Hutchinson, Samuel Sewall, J. Addington, Em. Hutchinson, Penn Townsend, Andrew Belcher, Edw. Bromfield, Ichabod Plaisted), ; Fac-simile of the Title of Penhallow’s History (1726), ; of Church’s Entertaining Passages (1716), ; Bellin’s Map of Port Royal, ; View of Gut of Annapolis, ; Autograph of Thomas Westbrook, ; of John Lovewell, ; Plan of Lovewell’s Fight, ; Autographs of R. Auchmuty and W. Vaughan, ; Portrait of Sir William Pepperrell, with Autograph, ; his Arms, ; Autographs of Edward Tyng and John Rous, ; Gibson’s Picture of the Siege of Louisbourg, fac-simile, opp. ; Autograph of Peter Warren, ; of Richard Gridley, ; Bellin’s Map of Cape Breton (1746), ; Gridley’s Plan of Louisbourg (1745), , , ; Plan of Attack on Louisbourg (1745), ; Map of the Siege (1745), ; Pepperrell’s Plan of the Siege (1745), ; View of Louisbourg, ; Plan of Island Battery, ; View of the Entrance of Mines Basin, ; View of Cape Baptist, ; Autograph of Paul Mascarene, ; Plan of Forts Beauséjour and Gaspereau, ; Autograph of Charles Lawrence, ; Map of Fort Beauséjour and Adjacent Country, ; Colonel Monckton, with Autograph, ; Autograph of John Winslow, ; his Portrait, ; Autograph of Colonel Murray, ; Admiral Boscawen, with Autograph, ; Map of Siege of Louisbourg (1758), ; Views of Louisbourg and Harbor, ; Portrait of General Wolfe, ; Plan of Siege of Louisbourg (1758), , ; Plan of the Attack, .

MAPS AND BOUNDS OF ACADIA. The Editor

Illustrations: Lahontan’s Map of Acadia, ; Map of the French Claim (1755), ; of the English Claim (1755), ; Jefferys’ Map of Nova Scotia, 480-481.

CHAPTER VIII.

The Struggle for the Great Valleys of North America. The Editor

Illustrations: French Soldier (1700), ; British Infantry Soldier (1725), ; Popple’s Map of Lakes Champlain and George (1732), ; View of Quebec (1732), ; British Footguard (1745), ; French Soldier (1745), ; Colden’s Map of the Region of the Great Lakes, ; Autographs of Duquesne, ; of Contrecœur, ; of Jumonville, ; of Villiers, ; French Soldiers (1755), ; Map of Fort Duquesne and Vicinity, ; Contemporary Plan of Braddock’s Defeat, ; Autograph of Sir William Johnson, ; his Portrait, ; Autograph of Montcalm, ; Portraits of Lord Loudon, , ; Plan of Albany, ; Plan of Fort Frederick at Albany, ; Autograph of Loudon, ; The Forts at Oswego, ; Fort Edward and Vicinity, , , ; Fort St. Jean, ; Fort William Henry, ; View of the Site of Fort William Henry, ; Plan of Attack on Fort William Henry, ; Fort at German Flats, ; Autograph of James Abercromby, ; Lord Howe, ; View of Ticonderoga, ; Plan of Attack on Ticonderoga (1758), ; Fort Frontenac, ; Mante’s Map of Lake George, ; Autograph of Jeff. Amherst, ; Fort Stanwix, ; Autographs of Generals Forbes and Vaudreuil, ; Portrait of General Amherst, ; Fort Pitt, ; The New Fort Pitt, ; Fort Niagara, ; Fort George on Lake George, ; Modern Map of Lake George, ; Plan of Ticonderoga, ; of Crown Point, ; View of the Ruins of Crown Point, ; Plan of Isle-aux-Noix, ; Portrait of General Wolfe, ; Plan of the Siege of Quebec (1759), ; Contemporary Plan of Quebec, ; Bougainville, ; British Soldiers, ; Montcalm, ; Plan of Quebec as Surrendered, ; View of Heights of Abraham, with Wolfe’s Monument, ; Map of the Campaign of Lévis and Murray, ; Plan of Quebec (1763), ; View of Montreal (1761), ; Plans of Montreal (1763, 1758 ), , ; Map of Routes to Canada (1755-1763), ; Robert Rogers, .

Critical Essay

Illustrations: French Soldiers (1710), ; Bonnecamp’s Map, ; Fort Cumberland and Vicinity, ; Contemporary Map of Dieskau’s Campaign, ; Clement’s Plan of the Battle of Lake George, ; Map of Forts George and Ticonderoga (1749-1760), ; Crown Point Currency of New Hampshire, ; General Townshend, .

Notes

Illustrations: Autograph of William Smith, ; Portrait of Garneau, ; of James Grahame, .

INDEX

NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL

HISTORY OF AMERICA.