NORTH AMERICA

1763-1781

GREENLAND
claimed by Denmark

Godthab

RUSSIAN AMERICA
Area explored and claimed by Russia

Area unexplored and unclaimed

INDIAN RESERVE 17631007 Indian Reserve

17740622 to Quebec

York Factory
Company headquarters

Coast of Labrador
17631007 to Newfoundland
17740622 to Quebec

NEWFOUNDLAND St. John's

RUPERT´S LAND
to the Hudson´s Bay Co.

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17631007 to Newfoundland

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17740622 to Quebec

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Miquelon

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17630210 to France
Magdalen

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17631007 to Newfoundland

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17740622 to Quebec

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Cape

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17
Breton
ST. JOHN'S IS.
17690628 separate Royal Colony
Louisbourg
Charlottetown
1765

NOVA SCOTIA
17631007 Cape Breton, St. John's Island
and present New Bruswick added

Quebec 17631121
Halifax
Fort Kaministiquia Annapolis Royal
Trois-Rivières
MAINE
1778 Mass. Bay District
CANADA Montreal Area
unsurveyed

/ 1774
1763

REP. OF
VERMONT 1764
Michilimackinac 17770602 Indep. Rep.
1781 abandoned
NEW
IROQUOIS HAMP. Portsmouth
SIX NATIONS Exeter 1775
17791003 Iroquois Nations destroyed
Manchester MASSACHUSETTS
1782 1764 17740520 abrogated the colony's charter
Boston 17800302 Constitution of the "Commonwealth of Mass."

Albany Plymouth
1773 Providence
NEW 1774
Hartford
QUEBEC YORK CONN. RHODE ISLAND
17630210 to Great Britain (Treaty of Paris)
17631007 Royal Proclamation. Quebec Prov. 1774
17640810 Quebec, Montreal and Trois-
Rivières districts united New Haven
17740622 Quebec Act. Provincial government 176
Borders of Quebec extended to the 9/17
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers 73

New York
Perth Amboy
PENNSYLVANIA
NEW JERSEY
Philadelphia Burlington
INDIAN RESERVE
17631007 Indian Reserve
UNITED STATES
17740622 to Quebec New Castle
1779 Bdry. MARYLAND Dover
OF AMERICA
17760704 Declaration of independence from Great Britain
between Va.
and Penn.
claims
DELAWARE
Annapolis 17760615 Declaration of independence
17771115 Articles of Confederation

from British and Pennsylvania

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LUISIANA
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Monterey
mati Li

1776 Capital of California

17630210 to Spain (Treaty of Paris), only the
area west of the Mississippi River
St. Mary's City
17660305 to the Captaincy-General of Cuba as
the "Intendancy of New Orleans in Louisiana" Richmond
P rocla

1780
3

Williamsburg
176

Fort de Chartres
1771 abandoned VIRGINIA Jamestown

NORTH St. George's

INDIAN RESERVE CAROLINA New Bern
Santa Fe 17630210 to Great Britain (Treaty of Paris)
17631007 Royal Proclamation of an Indian Protectorate 1772
BERMUDA IS.
Colonial charters revoked west to the Proclamation Line
ALTA CALIFORNIA 1764

CALIFORNIA SOUTH
1767 Gobernación
1773 internal division in two Mission
departments: Alta and Baja California,
for Franciscan and Dominican Missions
respectively
NUEVO MÉXICO CAROLINA
DE SANTA FE

BAJA CALIFORNIA
Charles Town

GEORGIA
Savannah
17640606 / 1767

Los Adaes
WEST FLORIDA
17630210 to Great Britain (Treaty of Paris)
17631007 Royal Proclamation. W. Florida Prov.
Florida Boundary
17631007 West
Arizpe
INTERNAL PROVINCES
17760822 Commandancy General autonomous of
the Viceroyalty of New Spain
Mobile St. Augustine
LOS TEXAS Pensacola
SONORA Y
SINALOA EAST
New Orleans
San Antonio Bejar
FLORIDA
17630210 to Great Britain (Treaty of Paris)
1772 17631007 Royal Proclamation. E. F. Prov.

COAHUILA
(NUEVA EXTREMADURA)

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

Undefinided administrative boundary Culiacán

NUEVO REINO
(Obsolete boundaries during the period, in red) AUDIENCIA OF DE LEÓN
GUADALAJARA BAHAMAS
Durango TURKS AND
CAICOS IS.
Nombre de Dios La Habana 1766 claimed by Bahamas

Aguayo VICEROYALTY
LA HABANA
OF NEW SPAIN

COLOTLÁN San Juan

Colotlán CUBA SANTIAGO DE CUBA
17641031 Captaincy-General of Cuba
PUERTO
Cap Français RICO
NUEVA GALICIA SANTO DOMINGO
Compostela
Santiago de Cuba Santo Domingo
Alcaldías Mayores y Corregimientos
Guadalajara Mérida
AUDIENCIA OF Port-au-Prince
1770
CAYMAN IS. SANTO DOMINGO

TLAXCALA SAINT-DOMINGUE
YUCATÁN
COLIMA
México Veracruz Spanish Town
Tlaxcala JAMAICA
GOB. DE
AUDIENCIA OF MÉXICO VERACRUZ
TABASCO
1780
BELIZE
San Juan SETTLEMENT
Bautista
Belize

Acapulco
CIUDAD DE LOS REYES
Y PUERTO DE ACAPULCO

Alcaldías Mayores y Corregimientos Aruba Bonaire

to Neth. to Neth.
I. NEW SPAIN COMAYAGUA
in 1781 Escuintla (Honduras) Curaçao
MÉXICO 1527 Aud. Comayagua
to Neth.

NUEVA ESPAÑA 1529 Capt.-Gral. SOCONUSCO Alcaldía Mayor

Tlaxcala 1585 Gob. Guatemala (Tegucigalpa)
Acapulco ¿? Gob. II. NEW SPAIN
Veracruz ¿? Gob. in 1781 MOSQUITO
Yucatán 1617 Prov. and Capt.-Gral. COAST Caracas
Tabasco 1780 Gob. GUATEMALA 1568 Aud. and 1609 Capt.-Gral.
Soconusco 1561 Gob.
Nvo. Reino de León 1579 Gob.
Comayagua 1552 Gob. AUDIENCIA AND Corregimiento
Maracaibo
Nuevo Santander 1746 Gob. CAPTAINCY GRAL. OF Corregimiento (Matagalpa)
GUADALAJARA 1548 Aud. Nicaragua 1524 Gob. (El Realejo) León
NVA. GALICIA 1548 Gob. and Capt.-Gral.? Costa Rica 1574 Gob. GUATEMALA
Colotlán 1590 Gob. STO. DOMINGO 1526 Aud. and 1535 Capt.-Gral. NICARAGUA
CUBA 1764 Capt.-Gral. and Int. Bluefields
PROVINCIAS INTERNAS 1776 Comm. G.
Nva. Vizcaya 1562 Gob. La Habana 1607 Gob.
Santiago de Cuba 1607 Gob. VENEZUELA
17761208 Intendencia of Caracas
Nvo. México 1598 Gob. 17770908 Captaincy-General
Coahuila 1674 Gob. Luisiana 1766 Int.
Texas 1722 Gob. PUERTO RICO 1580 Capt.-Gral.
Sonora y Sinaloa 1733 Gob. VENEZUELA 1777 Capt.-Gral. and 1776 Int.
FILIPINAS (MANILA) 1583 Aud. and 1574 Capt.-Gral. Alcaldía
California 1767 Gob. Mayor COSTA RICA
(Nicoya) Cartago

VICEROYALTY OF
NEW GRANADA

Joaquín de Salas Vara de Rey

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