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Many Quakers from Wales emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 17th century with a promise from William Penn that they would be allowed to set up a Welsh colony there. The Welsh Tract was to have been a separate county whose local government would use the Welsh language, since many of the settlers spoke no English.
The Welsh Tract's boundaries were established in 1687, but notwithstanding the prior agreement, by the 1690s the land had already been partitioned among different counties, despite appeals from the Welsh settlers, and the Tract never gained self-government.
The River Dee marks the border between Farndon, England, to the left and Holt, Wales, to the right Bilingual "Welcome to Wales" sign Bilingual "Welcome to England" sign. The modern boundary between Wales and England runs from the salt marshes of the Dee estuary adjoining the Wirral Peninsula, across reclaimed land to the River Dee at Saltney just west of Chester.
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.
too small to map: December 29, 1934 Kingman Reef was placed under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of the Navy. [382] no change to map: November 15, 1935 The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands was dissolved and replaced with the Commonwealth of the Philippines. [399] [400] Pacific Ocean: March 16, 1936
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
A Map of New England; ... Media in category "Historic maps of the Americas" This category contains only the following file. WOODFORDMAP.jpg 2,575 × 1,812; 1.41 MB
The historian William Rees said, in his "Historical Atlas of Wales": (published 1959) "... the boundaries of the modern shires have largely been determined by the ancient divisions of the country. The survival of these ancient local divisions within the pattern of historical change constitutes a vital element in the framework of the national ...