The History of Eastport, and Vicinity: A Lecture, Delivered April, 1834, Before the Eastport Lyceum |
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Page 34 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 34 - Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East Florida on the other shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic ocean...
Page 37 - Whereas doubts have arisen what river was truly intended under the name of the river St. Croix, mentioned in the said treaty of peace, and forming a part of the boundary therein described...
Page 38 - Scoodiac, which falls into Passamaquoddy bay at its northwestern quarter, was the true St. Croix intended in the treaty of peace, as far as its great fork, where one of its streams comes from the westward and the other from the northward, and that the latter stream is the continuation of the St. Croix to its source.
Page 28 - John, to the south end of the Lake Nipissing, from whence the said line, crossing the river St. Lawrence and the Lake Champlain, in forty-five degrees of north latitude, passes along the Highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea, and also along the north coast of the Bay des Chaleurs and the Coast of the Gulf of St.
Page 18 - all that part of the main land of New England, beginning at a certain place called and known by the name of St. Croix, next adjoining to New England...
Page 39 - And the Islands and Waters Northward and Eastward of the said Boundary, together with the Island of Campo Bello, situated to the Southward thereof, are hereby declared to be within the Jurisdiction and part of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick ; and the Islands and Waters Southward and Westward of the said Boundary, except only the Island of Campo Bello, are hereby declared to be within the Jurisdiction and part of Massachusetts.
Page 37 - Croix, in the said treaty of peace, and forming a part of the boundary therein described ; that is to say, the mouth of the said river is in Passamaquoddy bay, at a point of land called Joe's Point, about one mile northward from the northern part of...
Page 38 - Scoodiac and its northern branch bound the grants of lands which have been made by the respective adjoining governments. A subordinate question, however, it has been suggested, still remains to be determined. Between the mouth of the St. Croix as now settled, and what is usually called the bay of Fundy, lie a number of valuable islands. The commissioners have not continued the boundary line through any channel of these islands, and unless the bay of Passamaquoddy be a part of the bay of Fundy, this...
Page 38 - Croix, at its mouth, as the same has been ascertained by the commissioners appointed for that purpose ; thence through the middle of the channel between Deer Island on the east and north, and Moose island, and Campo Bello island on the west and south, and round the eastern point of Campo Bello island, to the bay of Fundy...
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| Title | The History of Eastport, and Vicinity: A Lecture, Delivered April, 1834, Before the Eastport Lyceum |
| Author | Jonathan Delesdernier Weston |
| Publisher | Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1834 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 61 pages |
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