...t. John's River and the alliance of the neighboring Indians, they held the continent from Bay Verte to the borders of the Penobscot. Such was the state of occupancy, when, in September, at Paris, Shirley , who had been placed at the head of the British Commission, presented a memorial, claiming for the English all the land east of the Penobscot and south of the St. Lawrence, as constituting the ancien...