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The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
Map of British America showing the original boundaries of the Province of Quebec, and its Quebec Act 1774 post-annexation boundaries. In 1760, following the capitulation of Montreal, the colony was placed under military government, with civil government only instituted beginning in 1764. The following were the governors: James Murray 1760–1766
The Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665 marked the border between the Colony of Virginia and the Province of Carolina from the Atlantic Ocean westward across North America. The line follows the parallel 36°30′ north latitude that later became a boundary for several U.S. states as far west as the Oklahoma Panhandle , and also came to be ...
Image:Map of USA with county outlines.png – Grey and white map of USA with county outlines. Hi-res 2 color images Image:Usa-state-boundaries-lower48+2.png – USA state outlines, Hawaii and Alaska displaced, 2005x1289px, black on transparent.
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. It extended from Long Island on the Atlantic, up the Hudson River and Mohawk River valleys to the Great Lakes and North to the colonies of New France and claimed lands further west.
Many locations in the United States are named after royalty, including Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, and Dukes. Of these, the majority are European royalty, though exceptions exist, such as with Hiram, Maine, which is named after the biblical King Hiram I of Tyre.