The Great Company : $b being a history of the honourable company of merchants-adventurers trading into Hudson's BayWillson, Beckles
History
The Great Company : $b being a history of the honourable company of merchants-adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay
Willson, Beckles
Fur trade -- Canada; Hudson's Bay Company; Northwest, Canadian -- History
That the said limits began from the island called Grimington's
Island, or Cape Perdrix, in the latitude of 58½° north, which
they desire may be the boundary between the English and the
French, on the coast of Labrador, towards Rupert's Land, on the
east main, and Novia Britannia on the French side, and that no
French ship, bark, boat or vessel whatsoever, shall pass to the
northward of Cape Perdrix or Grimington's Island, towards or
into the Streights or Bay of Hudson, on any pretence whatever.
[Sidenote: Demand of the Company.]
That a line be supposed to pass to the south-westward of the
said Island of Grimington or Cape Perdrix to the great Lake
Miscosinke, _alias_ Mistoveny, dividing the same into two parts
(as in the map now delivered), and that the French, nor any
others employed by them, shall come to the north or
north-westward of the said lake, or supposed line, by land or
water, or through any rivers, lakes or countries, to trade, or
erect any forts or settlements whatsoever; and the English, on
the contrary, not to pass the said supposed line either to the
southward or eastward.
That the French be likewise obliged to quit, surrender and
deliver up to the English, upon demand, York Fort (by them
called Bourbon), undemolished; together with all forts,
factories, settlements and buildings whatsoever, taken from the
English, or since erected or built by the French, with all the
artillery and ammunition, in the condition they are now in;
together with all other places they are possessed of within the
limits aforesaid, or within the Bay and Streights of Hudson.
These limits being first settled and adjusted, the Company are
willing to refer their losses and damages formerly sustained by
the French in time of peace, to the consideration of
commissioners to be appointed for that purpose.
By order of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England,
trading into Hudson's Bay.
Hudson's Bay House, 7th of February, 1711-12.
A LIST OF FORTS FROM 1668 TO 1714.
1. Rupert, called by the French St. Jacques. Founded 1668 by
Gillam. Taken by the French under Troyes and Iberville, July,
1686. Retaken by the English, 1693.
2. Fort Monsippi, Monsonis, St. Lewis and Moose Fort, taken by
Troyes and Iberville 20th June, 1686. Retaken 1693.
3. Fort Chechouan, St. Anne or Albany, taken by de Troyes and
Iberville in 1686. Retaken 1693.
4. New Severn or Nieu Savanne, taken by Iberville, 1690.
5. Fort Bourbon, Nelson or York. Founded 1670. Taken by the
French, 1682, acting for English, 1684. Retaken by Iberville
12th October, 1894. Retaken by the English 1696, and by the
French, 1697. Retaken by the English, 1714.
6. Fort Churchill, 1688.
7. East Main.
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