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North America (search for this): chapter 4
Chapter 3:
Civil history.
When the Europeans took possession of North America, by the right of discovery, their entry of lands, countries, and continents was deemed by them as legal ownership for their sovereign.
The discoveries of John and Sebastian Cabot, Bartholomew Gosnold, and others, were understood to give to James I., of England, the coasts and country of New England.
The king accordingly claimed, in the eighteenth year of his reign, the entire continent between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
In that same year, he granted to the Council of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England, in America, all that part of America lying and being in breadth from forty degrees to forty-eight degrees of north latitude, and in length of and within all the breadth aforesaid throughout the mainland, from sea to sea, --to be holden of him, his heirs, and successors, as of his manor of East Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in
Accomack (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
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Middlesex County (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Devonshire (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 4
Bunker (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
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