NORTH AMERICA

1655-1762

GREENLAND
1721 claimed by Denmark

Godthab
1728

RUSSIAN AMERICA
1741 Area explored and claimed by Russia

Area unexplored and unclaimed

York Factory
Company headquarters

NEWFOUNDLAND17130411 to Brit. (Tr. of Utrecht)

St. John's
17290514 Royal Colony

RUPERT´S LAND PLAISANCE

16700502 English Charter to Hudson´s Bay Co. 1658-1713 French Government
over Hudson´s Bay basin
17130411 Tr. of Utrecht. France cedes its claim Plaisance

St.Pierre et
Miquelon
17130411 to Nova Scotia

ÎLE ROYALE
17130411 Government

Louisbourg
1719

NEW FRANCE
WESTERN SEA Gouvernments: Dependencies:
(LA MER DE L´OUEST)
1728 French western posts ACADIA
17130411 Nominally French Gov.
TROIS-RIVIÈRES Upper Country
disputed with GB MONTREAL Western Sea
LOUISIANA
LOWER COUNTRY Military districts:
(PAYS D´EN BAS)
Quebec Biloxi, Natchez,
Halifax
1749 Yazoo, Alabama,
Fort Kaministiquia Annapolis Royal Mobile, N.Orleans,
Trois-Rivières
(headquarters of the Western Sea) 1710 NOVA Arkansas and
1697 Natchitoches
CANADA Montreal
SCOTIA
16911007 to Mass. Bay (Acadia incl.) Autonomous Dep.:
1639
16970920 to France (Tr. of Ryswick)
17130411 Brit. Royal Colony (Tr. of Utrecht) Illinois Country
over east Acadia as "Nova Scotia"
17581002 Legislative Assembly ACADIA (1713 in dispute)
MAINE
16911007 to Mass. Bay ÎLE ROYALE
PLAISANCE (1658-1713)
1664

Michilimackinac 1740

IROQUOIS
UPPER COUNTRY
(PAYS D´EN HAUT)
SIX NATIONS Portsmouth NEW HAMPSHIRE 16790918 Royal Colony
16710516 Act of possession of the
Territory under direct control of
ONEIDA
MOHAWK
1664
1740 UNITED COLONIES
Quebec authorities

ONONDAGA Boston
MASS. BAY OF NEW ENGLAND
Albany Plymouth "New England Confederation"
TUSCARORA Providence
1681 SENECA
CAYUGA1720 approx
NEW Hartford PLYMOUTH 1747
16911007 to Mass.
16900411 Massachusetts calls a final meeting of the United Colonies of New England.
Actually, the Confederation ended in 1684 with the revocation of Massachusetts's charter,
but commissioners met again in 1689, hoping to frame new articles.
1695

YORK CONN. RHODE ISLAND

16640312 Propr. Col.
1703

DOMINION OF
16850206 Royal Col. 16630708 "R. I. and Providence

1719
1683
New Haven
Plantations" Corporate Colony
NEW ENGLAND
16840618 England's Court of Chancery annulled the Mass. charter, technically putting Mass. and Maine
(area between the Kennebec and Piscataqua Rivers) directly under the authority of the crown

N.J. CONN.
16620422 Corporate Colony
16851008 Dominion of New England. A new single province created by uniting King's Province, Mass.,
NH, Plymouth and Maine (area between New Hampshire and the Kennebec River)
16860517 The arrival of its first royal governor inaugurated the Dominion of New England

1664
1676 New York 16650105 New Haven incorporated
1701 two Colony capitals
16870112 R.I. Colony part of the Dominion of New England
16871101 Conn.Colony part of the Dominion of New England
16890418 Upon learning of the Glorious Revolution in England, Bostonians imprisoned the royal governor

PENNSYLVANIA Perth Amboy and others, thereby ending the Dominion of New England
1683
16810304 Proprietary Colony
NEW JERSEY
Philadelphia Burlington 16640624 Proprietary Colony
16760701 divided into East and
1682
S.J. 1693 West Jersey Colonies
17020417 East and West Jersey
NEW FRANCE 16630224 Royal Province
1732 New Castle reunited as N.J. Royal Colony and
governed jointly with N.Y. until
1738
17130411 Treaty of Utrecht:
Hudson Bay, Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia to GB MARYLAND NEW NETHERLAND
17590918 Brit. occupation of
Quebec 1736
1732
DELAWARE 16640827 New Netherland was captured from the Dutch
16670721 The capture confirmed by Treaty of Breda
Annapolis 17071122 Proprietary Colony
Semiautonomous part of Penn. as the
1694
"Lower Counties on the Delaware" NEW SWEDEN
16550915 incorporated into New Netherland
1732
UPPER LOUISIANA
(ILLINOIS COUNTRY)
17170927 to Louisiana out of
St. Mary's City
Upper Country

Williamsburg
1699

Fort de Chartres
1718
VIRGINIA Jamestown
LOUISIANA
16991208 Government 1665
1717-1733 under private Co. administration
17621103 ceded secretly to Spain

NORTH St. George's

(New London)
CAROLINA New Bern
Santa Fe
17290725 separate Royal Colony
1609 1710
BERMUDA IS.
1684 English Crown Colony
1735
1735
ARKANSAS

SOUTH CAROLINA
CALIFORNIA
1697 Missions Territory
CAROLINA 16630324 Proprietary Colony
1689 Deputy Governor of the North
17120509 Governor of "North Carolina"
under Sonora and Sinaloa NUEVO MÉXICO 17290725 separate Royal Colony
17191221 South Carolina Royal Colony
dependency

Charles Town
1670

YAZOO
GEORGIA
17330212 Corporate Colony
ALABAMA 17550107 Royal Colony
LOWER LOUISIANA Savannah
1743 1733

NEUTRAL AREA
1743

NATCHITOCHES
Los Adaes
1722
NATCHEZ
1739
Arizpe
Mobile
1702
BILOXI 1702 St. Augustine
LOS TEJAS MOBILE

(NUEVA FILIPINAS) Fort Maurepas

SONORA Y 1722 Gobernación, out of Coahuila
NEW
ORLEANS
SINALOA (Old Biloxi)
1693 Comandancia militar (Nva. Vizcaya) New Orleans 1699
FLORIDA
1733 Gobernación (Culiacán included) 1722

COAHUILA
(NUEVA EXTREMADURA)
1674 Gobernación (to Aud. of Guadalajara)
Texas included
1679 to Audiencia of Mexico

LEGEND
Loreto
1697 Monclova
Natural political boundary 1689
NUEVA VIZCAYA
COLONIA DEL
Established political boundary NUEVO SANTANDER Nassau
1695
(LOS TAMAULIPAS)
Disputed political boundary 17460903 Gobernación
Monterrey
Established administrative boundary

Undefinided administrative boundary Culiacán

NUEVO REINO
(Obsolete boundaries during the period, in red) AUDIENCIA OF DE LEÓN
GUADALAJARA BAHAMAS
16701101 English proprietary Colony
Durango (Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas)
17180726 British Crown Colony
TURKS AND CAICOS IS.
Nombre de Dios La Habana 1710 to Bermuda
Alcaldía disputed by Nueva Vizcaya
and Nueva Galicia and administered Aguayo VICEROYALTY
directly by the Viceroyalty 1750 LA HABANA
OF NEW SPAIN

COLOTLÁN San Juan

CUBA SANTIAGO DE CUBA
Colotlán PUERTO
Cap Français RICO
NUEVA GALICIA SANTO DOMINGO
Compostela
Santiago de Cuba Santo Domingo
Alcaldías Mayores y Corregimientos
Guadalajara Mérida
AUDIENCIA OF
CAYMAN IS.
16550511 English occupation
16700718 Treaty of Madrid. To Jamaica
SANTO DOMINGO

TLAXCALA Spanish Town SAINT-DOMINGUE

16970920 to France by Treaty of Ryswick
YUCATÁN (Villa de la Vega)
COLIMA
México Veracruz Port Royal
Tlaxcala JAMAICA 1655-1692 capital
GOB. DE 16550511 English occupation
16700718 Treaty of Madrid. English Colony

AUDIENCIA OF MÉXICO VERACRUZ

BELIZE SETTLEMENT
16700718 Treaty of Madrid. Spain recognized
English settlements in the Caribbean Sea
1738 election of magistrates in the "Public Meeting"
by the settlers, with no recognition of GB or Spain
1742 British Superintendency under Jamaica Gov.
Belize

Acapulco
CIUDAD DE LOS REYES
Y PUERTO DE ACAPULCO

Alcaldías Mayores y Corregimientos Aruba Bonaire

1688 to Neth. to Neth.
I. NEW SPAIN COMAYAGUA
in 1762 Escuintla MINAS DE (Honduras) Curaçao
ZARAGOZA
MÉXICO 1527 Aud. 1680
1700 approx. to
Comayagua
to Neth.
Comayagua
NUEVA ESPAÑA 1529 Capt.-Gral. SOCONUSCO TENCOA Alcaldía Mayor
Tlaxcala 1585 Gob. Guatemala 16601009 to
(Tegucigalpa)
Acapulco ¿? Gob. II. NEW SPAIN Comayagua MOSQUITO COAST
1666 English settlement

Veracruz ¿? Gob. in 1762 166802 English Protectorate de facto

16700718 Treaty of Madrid. Spain recognized
English settlements in the Caribbean Sea
Yucatán 1617 Prov. and Capt.-Gral. 1687 GB recognizes the Kingdom of Mosquitia Caracas
Nvo. Reino de León 1579 Gob. GUATEMALA 1568 Aud. and 1609 Capt.-Gral. 1730 Dependency of Jamaica
17400316 British Protectorate

Nuevo Santander 1746 Gob. Soconusco 1561 Gob. 1749 under superintendency of Belize

Comayagua 1552 Gob. AUDIENCIA AND Corregimiento

Maracaibo VENEZUELA
Nvo. México 1598 Gob. Corregimiento (Matagalpa)
Coahuila 1674 Gob. Nicaragua 1524 Gob. CAPTAINCY GRAL. OF (El Realejo) León
17420212 Province of Caracas
or Venezuela separated from

Texas 1722 Gob. Costa Rica 1574 Gob. GUATEMALA New Granada and included into
the Audiencia of Santo Domingo

GUADALAJARA 1548 Aud. STO. DOMINGO 1526 Aud. and 1535 Capt.-Gral. NICARAGUA
Caracas 1742 Gob. Bluefields
NVA. GALICIA 1548 Gob. and Capt.-Gral.? 1602

Colotlán 1590 Gob. CUBA 1579 Capt.-Gral. 16601009 to Nicaragua CARACAS AND
Nva. Vizcaya 1562 Gob. La Habana 1607 Gob. OTHER PROVINCES
Santiago de Cuba 1607 Gob. (Maracaibo, Barinas, Cumaná,
Sonora y Sinaloa 1733 Gob. Guayana and Trinidad)
California 1697 Missions Terr. Florida 1565 Missions Terr. 17170527 to New Granada
17240511 to Santo Domingo
PUERTO RICO 1580 Capt.-Gral. 17390820 to New Granada
FILIPINAS (MANILA) 1583 Aud. and 1574 Capt.-Gral. Alcaldía
Mayor COSTA RICA
(Nicoya) Cartago MARACAIBO
1676

Corregimientos
16601009 to C. R. Gob.
VICEROYALTY OF
NEW GRANADA
17170527 separated from Peru (present-day Venezuela
AUDIENCIA OF and Ecuador territories included)
17240511 reincorporated into Peru
17390820 Viceroyalty restored (Panama included)
PANAMÁ
17220721 Audiencia of Panamá restored
17390820 to New Granada

Joaquín de Salas Vara de Rey

20091104 jqvaraderey@terra.es