A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America. : Containing I. Some general account of ancient and modern colonies, the granting and settling of the British continent and West-India island colonies, with some transient remarks concerning the adjoining French and Spanish settlements, and other remarks of various natures. II. The Hudson's-Bay Company's lodges, furr and skin trade. III. Newfoundland harbours and cod-fishery. IV. The province of L'Accadie or Nova-Scotia; with the vicissitudes of the property and jurisdiction thereof, and its present state V. The several grants of Sagadahock, province of Main, Massachusetts-Bay, and New-Plymouth, united by a new charter in the present province of Massachusetts-Bay, commonly called New-England. /
Douglass, William,1691?-1752.
[London] : Boston, New-England, printed: London, re-printed for R. Baldwin in Pater-Noster-Row.,
M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Part of v.1 printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed; the client is named as Robert Dodsley, and copies were delivered to John Hughs.
The author, a Scottish physician, was born in East Lothian and died in Boston of smallpox in 1752. He arrived in the colonies in 1716 and settled in Boston in 1718 where he was considered a skillful doctor. In addition to this work, he wrote several medical treatises.
ESTC
Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers,
Electronic reproduction.
Unidentified armorial bookplates on the front pastedowns of each volume.
Hudson's Bay Company
Smallpox
Smallpox
Cod fisheries
England London.