Arredondo's Historical Proof of Spain's Title to Georgia: A Contribution to the History of One of the Spanish Borderlands |
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Page 358 - Collection of the TREATIES and CONVENTIONS, and RECIPROCAL REGULATIONS, at present subsisting between GREAT BRITAIN and FOREIGN POWERS, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council concerning the same, so far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation, to the Repression and Abolition of the Slave Trade, and to the Privileges and Interests of the Subjects of the High Contracting Parties ; compiled from Authentic Documents by LEWIS HERTSLET, Esq.
Page 97 - The various terrors of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Page 150 - Colonies, and places whatsoever, being or situated in the West Indies, or in any part of America, which the said King of Great Britain and his Subjects do at present hold and possess, so...
Page 61 - An Account of What the Army Did, under the Command of Col. Moore, in His Expedition Last Winter, against the Spaniards and Spanish Indians in a Letter from the Said Col. Moore to the Governor of Carolina. Printed in the Boston News, May 1, 1704.
Page 348 - ... of Spain, to the French, or to any other nations whatever, any lands, dominions or territories, or any part thereof belonging to Spain in America. On the contrary, that the Spanish dominions in the West Indies may be preserved whole and entire...
Page 100 - Histoire et Commerce des Colonies Anglaises, p. 327 (London, 1755), cited by Schone. Altamaha was treated as Neutral Ground.1 Pending an adjustment it must be left unoccupied. For a decade now England toyed with this idea of a Neutral Ground. Nonchalantly Spain let her toy. The peace of 1748 was only a truce, and both England and France competed for the good will of Spain. England must not offend her unnecessarily by an invasion of disputed territory. The Court of Madrid was also in a conciliatory...
Page 344 - Moreover, it is agreed, that the Most Serene King of Great Britain, His heirs and successors, shall have, hold, keep, and enjoy for ever, with plenary right of sovereignty, dominion, possession, and propriety, all those lands, regions, islands, colonies, and places whatsoever, being or situated in the West Indies, or in any part of America, which the said King of Great Britain and His subjects do at present hold and possess...
Page 348 - On the contrary, that the Spanish Dominions in the West Indies may be preserved whole and entire, the Queen of Great Britain engages, that she will endeavour, and give assistance to the Spaniards, that the ancient limits of their Dominions in the West Indies be restored, and settled as they stood in the time of the abovesaid Catholic King, Charles the Ilnd, if it shall appear that they have in any manner, or under any pretence, hern broken into, and lessened in any part since the death of the aforesaid...
Page 40 - Montele6n, London, October 20, 1734 (MS.). Tupique and Asao fled with the heathen Yamassees to the Scotch colony at Santa Elena. Led by Chief Altamaha, and encouraged and outfitted by Lord Cardross, the Yamassees now made a raid clear across Guale to the Timucua missions west of San Agustm (February, 1685). At Santa Catalina de Afuica early one morning they sacked the mission, killed some of the inhabitants, and carried off others to be sold as slaves. When they returned, the raiders were met at...
Page 62 - ... of Robert Macken, the Indians now having a mighty value for the whites. Apalatchia is now reduced to so feeble and low a condition, that it can neither support St. Augustine with provisions, nor distrust, endamage or frighten us: our Indians living between the Apalatchia and the French. In short, we have made Carolina as safe as the conquest of Apalatchia can make it.