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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction. Borders, Places, and Movement
  7. Part I. Ways to Think About Borders
    1. Chapter 1. Toward a Prehistory of Territory: Thomas Hobbes, the Maryland Palatinate, and the Colonial Boundary Problem
    2. Chapter 2. Things to Think With: The Use of Borders on a Seventeenth-Century Map of New England
    3. Chapter 3. Lines on a Map: Crafting and Contesting Borders in Guillaume Delisle’s and Herman Moll’s Early Eighteenth-Century Maps of North America
    4. Chapter 4. Data Maps of Downeast Maine: Missionary Records from the Early Republic Borderlands
  8. Part II. Creating Place
    1. Chapter 5. Depicting and Defining the Plantation in the Early English Caribbean, 1625–1675
    2. Chapter 6. When a River Is a Border: Rivalries and Commercial Networks in the Riverine West
    3. Chapter 7. Military Lines: How the Introduction of Contours Affected Maps and Movement
  9. Part III. Movement
    1. Chapter 8. Indian Centers, Colonial Peripheries: Locating the International in Early America
    2. Chapter 9. “Playing the Old Game of Double”: Navigating Creek and Spanish Geopolitics in the Post-Revolutionary Gulf South
    3. Chapter 10. Comercio Libre: Revisiting a Concept on Trade and Borders in Creek Homelands
    4. Chapter 11. Possibilities and Peril: Exploring the Transnational Experiences of Black People in the Maritimes, 1783–1792
    5. Chapter 12. Amphibious Tales: Villagers and Strangers in a Border-Crossing World
  10. List of Contributors
  11. Index
  12. Acknowledgments

INDEX

Abbott, Ephraim, 108

Adams, John, 91

Africa, 275, 283

Africans, 4, 5, 66, 123, 130; enslaved, 63, 133, 148, 149, 267, 276, 280; formerly enslaved, 126, 133, 271

Alabama, 219, 244

Albany, 103; Indigenous diplomacy and, 198, 203, 204; Plan of Union and, 206

Algonquians, 198

Algonquin speakers, 44

Alline, Henry, 99

Alvarado, Luis de Moscoso, 75

American Revolution, 151, 153, 155, 156, 194, 245, 249; aftermath of, 8, 89, 93–94, 95, 99, 144, 159, 215–219, 227, 264, 283; Black Americans in the, 265, 267, 271, 279; Indigenous Americans during, 220, 225

Andros, Edmund, 47

Anglicanism, 19, 99, 101, 102, 103, 131, 294

Annapolis (Port Royal), 79

Apaches, 75, 290, 299–301, 305; Chiricahuas, 304, 306–307

Apalachicola, 246

Appalachian Mountains, 42, 64, 65, 71, 144–145, 160, 228, 235; depictions in maps, 74

Ariel, 296, 297

Arizona, 290, 300, 301, 307

Asiento, 63

Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe (AT&SF), 307–308

Atlantic world, 1, 2, 3, 9, 264, 266, 277, 281, 294, 296; connections to continental interior, 76, 142, 144, 217

Avalon colony, 22; palatine government and, 23–24

Austen, Ralph, 123, 124

Bacon, Francis, 118

Bagster, Ashlin, 293, 294, 295

Bainbrigge, Philip, 167, 168, 171 (fig.), 176, 177; methods of producing reconnaissance maps developed by, 170–173, 178, 180, 181

Balangingi, 302

Baltimore, 153, 158

Baltimore, Lord. See Calvert, Cecil; Calvert, George

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 308–309

Baptists, 99, 105, 106, 121

Barbados, 117, 123, 127, 130, 131, 272; development of plantations on, 119–122, 124–125; depictions in maps, 115, 116 (fig.), 117, 122, 125, 129, 133, 134

Barrington, Francis, 127

Basilan, 302

Bathurst, Lord, 97

Battle of Salamanca, 170–172, 174

Baynton, John, 144

Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, 144, 145, 150, 153. See also Baynton, John; Wharton, Thomas; Morgan, George

Bay of Fundy, 92, 93, 95, 96

beaver, 31, 71, 78, 157; Beaver Wars and, 71

Belcher, Edward, 297, 299

Benton, Clark, 103

Beresford, Richard, 76

Bermuda, 115, 119, 127

Berry, Walter, 270, 271

Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de, 75

Biloxi Bay, 65, 72

Birchtown (Nova Scotia), 267, 273

Blake, J. J., 302–303

Blathwayt Atlas, 40 (fig.), 42, 132 (fig.)

Blathwayt, William, 38, 42, 44, 48. See also Blathwayt Atlas

Board of Trade. See Lords of Trade

Bodley, Josias, 122, 124

Bolivia, 298

Bombay, 297, 298

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 173

Bonillas, María Concepción, 299

Book of Negroes, 267, 271

borderlands, 3, 93, 143, 194–195, 292; historiography of, 160, 218

borders, 1, 3, 4–5, 6–7, 8, 19–21, 245–246; crossing, 20, 97–99, 100, 103, 242, 256, 264, 292, 294–295, 300, 303–304, 306, 308, 310; formation of, 7, 94, 108–109; maps and, 38–41, 45–49, 50–54, 61–62, 63–66, 68, 71–73, 74–76, 78–79, 80–82; water, 4, 264–266, 272, 274, 276–278, 280–283; as weak, 195–199

Borneo, 292, 296, 297–298, 301–302

Boston, 46, 48, 50, 81, 98, 99, 106, 126, 153, 254, 283, 293, 298, 307–308; as escape destination, 269, 271–274

Bowen, Emanuel, 53

Bowles, William Augustus, 251, 255

Brayne, William, 125, 126

Brooke, James, 296, 297–298, 300, 303

Brunei Sultanate, 296, 297

Bulkeley, Peter, 46–47

Burgoyne, John Fox, 178

Burnet, William, 77

Burns, George, 267, 269, 270, 271

Burr, Aaron, 158

Bushnan, John, 295

Byrd II, William, 78

Caddos, 75

Cahokia, 148

Calcutta, 296, 297, 298

California, 289, 290, 291, 298–299, 300, 306, 308, 309

Calvert, Cecil, 25–26, 28–29; dispute with William Claiborne, 30–31

Calvert, George, 25; Avalon colony and, 22–24; participates in the Virginia Company, 17–18

Campillo y Cossío, José del, 221–222

Campobello Island, 95, 96, 108

Camden, William, 122

Canada, 64, 93, 215, 265, 281; British invasion of, 68, 69; depictions in maps, 77; as French colony, 71; missionary activities in, 100, 103, 106

Canahogue, 197

Canassatego, 203, 204, 206

Canton, 297, 298

capitalism, 115, 116, 117, 118

Caribbean, 4, 52, 63, 127, 214, 215, 227, 253, 272–273, 283; depictions in maps, 115–116, 121–124, 129, 133; plantations and, 117, 119–120, 121–124, 133–135, 226, 266; slavery and, 268, 271, 272, 275, 277, 280

Carlisle, Earl of, 119–120

Carolina colonies, 53, 66, 283; depictions in maps, 51, 52, 65, 71, 72, 75, 78–79; Native Americans and, 72

Casa Calvo, Marquis de, 234

Cass, Thomas, 295

Catholicism, 7, 22–23, 24, 103, 121; anti-Catholicism and, 24–25, 27, 30, 127; Native Americans and, 89, 98, 99

cattle, 124, 148, 153, 156, 250; ranching, 31, 126, 226, 309

Cavendish, Lord. See Devonshire, William

Cayugas, 202. See also Haudenosaunees, Iroquois

Chadwick, Benjamin, 92 (fig.), 107

Charles I of England, 17, 24

Charles II of England, 38, 46, 50, 79; consolidates authority in New England, 39, 42, 43, 45; Jamacia and, 138, 130

Charles III of Spain, 221, 222

Charles IX of Spain, 75

Charleston, 71–72, 74, 78, 79, 81, 247, 248, 252, 254

Charleton, Joe, 276

Charlottetown, 267, 269

Cherokees, 72–73, 75, 78, 79, 197, 216, 228, 233–234, 236, 246, 247, 252

Chesapeake Bay, 28

Chicago, 198, 290, 291, 307–309

Chickasaws, 64, 72, 216, 228, 231, 233–234, 236, 246, 252

Chico, Don, 290, 292, 299, 304, 309

Chile, 298, 303, 309, 310

China, 292, 295, 297, 298, 302, 308

China Seas, 289, 292, 296, 298, 300, 301, 303–305

Choctaws, 64, 72, 75, 216. 226, 228, 231, 233–234, 236, 246

Christ’s Hospital, 295, 296

Claiborne, William, 29–30, 31; dispute with Maryland, 32–33

Clark, George Rogers, 155

Clark Jr., Daniel, 157–158

Clark, John, 270–271

Clark, William, 229

Clarke, Henry, 292, 299–300

Clarkson, John, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282

Clarksburg, 154

Clerc, Pierre-Antoine, 173

Clinton, George, 203

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 73, 81

Colden, Cadwallader, 197, 200

colonialism, 134, 215, 221; relationship to international relations, 191–192, 193–195, 207; (see also: settler colonialism)

comercio libre, 8, 244, 248, 254, 255–257; historiography of, 244–243, 245; influence of Creek women on, 8, 249–250, 252, 256

Company of the West, 76

Congregational churches, 98, 102; missionaries, 89, 99–100, 104–106, 108

Connecticut, 53; border disputes, 45, 47; depictions in maps, 38–39, 40 (fig.), 47, 48

contour lines, 7–8, 164, 167–168, 170 (fig.), 175 (fig.), 179 (fig.), 180–181; criticism of, 176; French development of, 173–174; perceived objectivity of, 165–166, 174–175; use for reconnaissance surveys, 175–179

Cook, James, 295

Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson, 307

cotton, 127, 132, 146, 156, 217, 249, 253, 294, 297

Courteen, William, 119

Covenant Chain, 192, 193, 195; as an international system, 200–204, 206, 207–208; Great Law of Peace and, 199, 200. See also Haudenosaunees, Iroquois

Coweta, 246, 247, 249

Coxe & Clark, 157. See also Clark Jr., Daniel; Coxe, Daniel W.

Coxe, Daniel W., 157–158

Crabb, Henry, 300–301

Creeks (Muscogees), 8, 72, 79, 225, 236, 243; attempts to establish a Creek Nation, 229–230, 235; balance between Spain and the United States, 216, 219–220, 255; comercio libre and, 8, 242, 244, 248–249, 250, 252–255, 256–257; divisions among, 231; political organization of, 216, 228–229, 230, 235; relations with British Empire, 220; relations with Spanish Empire, 224, 226–228, 232–233, 247–248, 252–255, 256–257; relations with United States, 288, 233; riverine borders of, 246; women’s role in trade and diplomacy, 8, 244, 245, 249–250, 252, 256

Cromwell, Oliver, 117, 125–126, 128, 129

Cuba, 148, 156, 215, 224, 226, 228, 232, 243, 247, 248

Cucurpe, 290, 291, 292, 299, 300–301, 304–306

Cuming, Alexander, 73

Cusseta/Cussita, 229, 246

Daniels, Richard, 51

de Bry, Theodor, 43–44

deerskin trade, 43, 78, 157; Creeks and, 243, 244–245, 247, 248, 249, 251, 253, 256; role of women in, 8, 248, 249, 253; Spanish Empire and, 245, 247–248, 250–251, 253, 256; United States and, 255

Defoe, Daniel, 33, 69, 70

Delaware River and Valley, 25, 28, 30, 31

Delisle, Guillaume, 6, 60–62; maps produced by, 62, 63 (fig.), 64–66, 73, 74 (fig.), 75–76, 80–81

Devonshire, William, 17

Dickey Sam, 298

Dixon, Jeremiah, 33

Douglass, Walter, 71

Down Survey, 124, 130

D’Oyley, Edward, 128, 130

Dufour, Guillaume Henri, 173

Dutch empire, 30–31, 32, 42–43, 47, 133, 297, 302. See also New Netherland

Durant, Sophia, 252

Durham, 23–24, 26

Edinburgh, 48, 298

Emesteseguo, 245, 247

English/British empire, 298; depictions in maps, 51; reform of, 38, 41–42, 49, 125–126, 133; Restoration empire, 39, 45, 117, 129–130; rivalry with French empire, 6, 60, 63–64, 71–80, 143

The English Pilot; John Seller and, 51; John Thorton and William Fisher and, 52

Enlightenment, 216, 221

Enslaved People without full names recorded: Ben, 268–269, 273; Guy, 269–270; Joe, 269; Mingo, 268–269, 271, 273, 274; Peg, 268; Peter, 268–269

Eries, 75, 198

Escuchape (Escotchaby), 247, 249

Estabrooks, Elijah, 99

Faithorne, William, 43

Falls of the Ohio, 145, 155

Fanni Mingo, 73

Fat King, 229, 231

Ferguson, David, 156

filibusters, 243, 300–301

Fisher, Jonathan, 100, 105

Florida, 219, 225, 226, 228, 234, 275; British control of, 156, 215, 222, 224; Creeks and, 242–244, 245–252, 254–255, 257; depictions in maps, 63–66, 72, 74, 79

Folch, Vincente, 256

Forbes, John, 257

Forbes Purchase, 257

Forde, Richard, 133, 134

Forde, Standish, 153, 159; merchant activity in the trans-Appalachian west, 154–158

Fort Chartres, 145, 148, 151

Fort Pitt, 145, 149, 150, 154 (fig.)

Fort Susquehannock, 68, 74, 78

Franklin, Benjamin, 206

French and Indian War. See Seven Years’ War

French empire, 65, 157, 165, 225, 245; alliances with Native Americans, 61, 220, 221, 229; removal from North America, 204–205, 213, 222, 224; rivalry with British empire, 6, 60, 63–64, 71–80, 143

Frisbie, Levi, 100

frontiers, 2, 4, 191; frontier exchange economies, 157; Hobbes and, 21; international history and, 194; the Mississippi River and, 143, 157, 159–160

fur trade, 143, 144, 146, 155, 198; in the Chesapeake region, 29–32; in the Illinois Country, 148–150; in the Mississippi Valley, 146, 156. See also deerskin trade.

Gadsden Purchase, 300

Gage, Thomas, 205

Galphin, George, 249

Gálvez, José de, 225, 227, 231, 232

Gardoqui, Diego de, 151

George I, 60

George III of England, 106, 205

Georgia, 195, 219, 229, 230–231, 244, 246, 249, 250, 253, 257

Geronimo, 307

Gibbs, Guillermo, 298

Gibraltar, 215

Goodson, Admiral, 127, 128

Gookin, Daniel, 126

Gordon, George, 169

Gorges, Ferdinando 46, 47

Grand Manan, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 108

Great Lakes region, 4, 31, 64, 93, 143, 194; depictions in maps, 71, 75; Iroquois and, 198, 199, 202–203

Great Tallassee, 229

Guiana, 121, 126

Gulf Coast, 3, 8, 72, 74, 75, 156, 159, 228, 244, 251

Gulf of Mexico, 103, 143, 144, 146, 153, 156, 215, 222, 225, 226, 257; depictions in maps, 64, 147

Hagerstown, 154

Halifax, 97, 104, 279, 281, 282

Hall, Hannah, 293, 294, 295

Hall, John Denton, 9, 289–293, 310; education and upbringing of, 293–296; manuscript of, 290–291, 307 –309; marriage into Mexican family, 299–300; mining ventures in California and Mexico, 298–299, 301; mobility and violence in the southwestern borderland and, 301, 304–306; as a sailor in the Pacific, 296–298; voyage to Latin America, 298

Hapcott, John, 120, 122

Harness, Henry Drury, 167, 175 (fig.), 176, 180; promotion of contour lines, 173–175

Hartlib, Samuel, 123, 124

Haszard, Thomas, 271

Haudenosaunees, 8, 199, 200, 202; Clan Matrons and, 200, 201; depictions in maps, 65, 68–71, 72, 75, 78, 79, 197–198; relations with Britain, 195, 198, 204–207

Havana, 148, 222, 224, 226, 243, 247, 256

Hawkins, Benjamin, 257

Hecht, Frederick William, 274–275, 276–278

Hector, 266, 282–283; forced Atlantic migrations as an enslaved person, 275–276, 277; runs away from enslaver, 274–275, 276–277, 278

Hedley, Henry, 279

Henckel, George, 307, 308 (fig.)

Herrman, Augustine, 43

Hispaniola, 125

Hitchiti speakers, 224

Hobbes, Thomas, 29; connection to Maryland, 17–18; Leviathan and, 18–19, 21, 22; sovereignty and, 19, 20–21, 33; territory and, 20–21

Holdipp, Richard, 128

Hong Kong, 297

Hubbard, William, 49, 50 (fig.), 51, 52

Hutchins, Thomas, 142, 150–151; maps produced by, 149 (fig.), 154 (fig.)

Hurons, 31, 75, 198

Iban people, 296, 303

Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne, 62, 65

Illinois (nation), 198

Illinois River region, 65, 142, 144, 145, 148, 149 (fig.), 150–151, 154, 157, 222

India, 298; East India Company and, 295, 296; East Indian trade and, 295–297

Indians. See Indigenous Americans, Native Americans.

Indigenous Americans, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 39, 41, 82, 192, 206, 245; the American Revolution and, 225; depictions in maps, 42, 64–65, 70–72, 75, 77–78, 196; dispossession of, 127; inter-imperial conflict and, 70–72, 78, 221, 231; international relations and, 192–195, 207–208, 217; mobility and, 202, 246, 305; Spanish relations with, 221, 223, 226–228, 233–235, 253; as subjects, 197, 222; territoriality and, 8, 197–198; trade and, 65, 232, 235, 250, 253–254, 257, 303; United States relations with, 228, 230, 235, 236; War of the Spanish Succession and, 63; women, 8, 244, 245, 253. See also Native Americans, individual nations and tribes

indigo, 132, 146, 155, 156, 157

Indonesia, 297, 301

Iranun people, 296, 302–303, 304–305, 306

Ireland, 115, 146, 174, 176, 303; plantations and, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124; settlers from, 24, 99, 249

Iroquois, 8, 31, 198; Covenant Chain and, 199–207; included in maps, 65, 68, 75, 78. See also Haudenosaunees, member tribes

Jackson, Lydia, 266, 283; escapes from slavery, 279–280, 281, 282; indentures herself, 278–279; re-enslavement of, 278, 279, 282

Jamaica, 117, 149; depictions in maps, 129–130, 131, 132 (fig); establishment of plantations in, 125–129, 130–131, 134

James I of England, 17, 23, 24, 45

James II of England, 44, 48

James, E. R., 176, 177–178

Jamestown, 81

Janin Jr., Louis, 291, 301, 309

Jansson-Visscher maps, 43, 51

Japan, 297

Jarry, François, 170

Jeaffreson, Christopher, 133

Jeffersonian Republicans, 235

Jefferson, Thomas, 142, 158, 248; administration of, 91, 94

Jennings, John, 145–146, 148

John Hall & Sons, 293

Johnson, Alfred, 89–91, 107

Johnson, William, 199, 200, 201, 204–205

Johnstone, George, 220

Jolo, 302, 303

Kanickhungo, 201

Kaskaskia, 146, 148

Kenhagee (William Perryman), 251

Kent Island, 29–32, 33

Kentucky, 151, 153–154, 155, 156, 157, 198

Keppel, Henry, 292, 296, 306, 310

Kiawah, 72

King Philip’s War, 42, 46, 49

King, Thomas, 202

kinship, 20, 192, 198, 244, 245; fictive, 201; networks, 150, 242

Lakes: Champlain, 71, 73, 98, 103, 198; Huron, 64, 75; Ontario, 42, 68, 74, 75; Superior, 64. See also Great Lakes.

Lancaster, 31, 154; 1744 treaty council, 203, 206

La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 62, 65, 73, 74–75, 81

Law, John, 76

Lawrence, Richard, 121

Lea, Philip, 52

Leicester, 294

Lenapes, 7, 31, 32

Lendy, Auguste Frédéric, 179–180

León, Alonso de, 75

Leslie, Frank, 250, 252, 256. See also Panton, Leslie, and Company

Le Sueur, Pierre-Charles, 62

Ligon, Richard, 120, 124; maps produced by, 115, 116 (fig.), 117, 122, 126, 129

Liljevalch, Anna María, 309

Lima, 298

Little Tallassee, 227, 245, 246

Liverpool, 293–294, 298

Lock, Ebenezer, 96

London, 96, 123, 127, 253, 272, 294, 296, 297, 298; imaginings of empire in, 41, 42–43, 44, 49–51, 52, 53

Lords of Trade, 33, 50, 73, 204, 205, 298; maps and, 38–39, 42, 69–70; reform in New England and, 6, 38–39, 44, 45–49, 51, 54

Louisiana, 234, 236, 242–244, 251; as territory of Spain, 151, 156, 215, 222, 227, 231, 245, 246; comercio libre in, 248, 255; depictions in maps, 71–72, 73–76, 77–79, 81, 197; U.S. purchase of, 144, 158–159

Louisville, 155

Louis XIV of France, 73

Louis XV of France, 60

Lovejoy, Daniel, 102, 108

Loyalists, 156, 218, 232, 250; enslavers, 265, 267, 278, 279; free and enslaved, 264–265, 267–268, 271–272, 274, 278–282

Lunenburg, 279, 281

Lynch, Thomas, 129

Maclean, Alexander, 101, 102, 103, 104, 108

Madison, James, 95–96

Maine, 195; boundaries of, 91–92, 93, 94, 95–97, 99; depictions in maps, 51, 66, 78, 93; land disputes in, 45, 46, 47; missionary activity in, 89, 91, 93–94, 97–102, 104–106, 107–108, 109, 264; Native Americans and, 89

Malay, 304, 305; language, 292, 303; people, 296, 303; trade, 302

Man, John, 131, 132 (fig.), 133

Manhattan, 30–31

Manila, 298, 303

Manning, James and Edward, 100

maps, 1, 4–5, 6, 80, 92, 124, 151, 245, 246, 251, 290–291, 297, 306–308; contour lines, 7–8, 164, 166–168, 171, 173–174, 177–179, 180; of the Caribbean, 115–117, 121–122, 129, 131–134; data maps, 7, 91, 93, 94, 97, 108, 109; depicting Native nations and people, 43–44, 196–197; English/British territorial claims and, 60–62, 66, 70–72, 77–80, 81–82, 196–197; French territorial claims and, 60–62, 63–66, 73–76, 81–82; imaginings of empire and, 39, 40–41, 42, 43–44, 48–49, 53–54; internationalism in early America and, 192; of the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee, 197–198, 200, 207; military uses of, 164–168, 169–172, 179–181; Native Americans as sources for, 65; Native deterritorialization in, 61, 64, 68–70, 75; of New England, 6, 38–41; 41–43, 46, 47–49, 50–53, 93, 97; Native territoriality and, 8, 197–199; plantations and, 117, 121–123, 126, 129, 131–134

Maritime colonies, 9, 96; Atlantic connections and, 264, 275–277, 282–283; slavery and, 265–266, 267–268, 271–272, 274, 275–278, 279–283; See also New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island

Maryland colony, 6, 19, 22, 33–34; Avalon as model for, 23; depictions in maps, 43, 51–52, 53, 68, 71, 78, 154 (fig.); dispute with William Claiborne, 29, 32–33; palatinate government and, 23, 26–27; territorial limits of, 28–29; Thomas Hobbes and, 17–18

Marryat, Frank, 298–299, 302

Marryat, Frederick, 298–299

Mason, Charles 33

Mason, Robert, 46, 47

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 49, 95; border disputes, 45–47; depictions in maps, 38–39, 40 (fig.), 48, 50 (fig.), 51, 52, 53; tensions with British administrators, 6, 44, 45, 46, 52

Massachusetts (state), 99, 101, 106, 266, 269, 273; support of missionaries, 89, 90, 104, 105

Matthews, George, 231

McColl, Duncan, 101, 104

McGillivray, Alexander, 8, 227, 231, 243–244; alliance with Spanish Empire, 229, 232; trade agreements between Euro-Americans and, 252–254, 255, 256; treaty with United States, 233, 255; efforts to create a Creek Nation, 229–230, 233, 235

McGillivray, Lachlan, 252

Metawney, 249

Methodism, 99, 101, 104, 105

Mexico, 226, 289, 292, 294, 300, 305, 307, 308; depictions in maps, 62, 65–66, 75. See also New Spain

Miamis, 7, 75

Miccosukee, 217, 251

Middleton, Thomas, 120

Mindanao, 297, 302

mines, 65, 76, 222, 248, 290–291, 299, 301, 305, 308

Miró, Esteban, 151, 227, 229

missionaries, 7, 65, 264; in Maine, 89–91, 93–94, 97–98, 100–108, 109; missionary societies, 89, 94, 97, 98, 100–106

Mississippi River, 3, 7 145–152, 154–159, 195, 219, 222–225, 226, 228, 231, 234–236, 244, 245, 248, 256; as a borderland, 142–144; depictions in maps, 62, 64–65, 72, 73–79, 81

Mitchell, John, 8, 65, 69, 70, 192, 196 (fig.), 197–198, 200, 206, 207

Mitchell, John (missionary), 103

Mobile Act, 257

Mobile Bay, 3, 65, 72, 79, 251

Mobile, 225, 226, 228, 234, 245, 247, 248, 252, 254, 256

Modyford, Thomas, 117, 121, 126, 129, 130, 131

Mohawks, 31, 204

Mohegans, 42

Moll, Herman, 6, 60–62; maps produced by, 66, 67 (fig.), 68–73, 76, 77 (fig.), 78–80, 81

Monroe, James, 96

Montreal, 64, 68, 81

Moorsom, Constantine Richard, 295

Moose Island, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 107

Morales, Juan Ventura, 252

Morden, Robert and William Berry, 38–39, 40 (fig.), 41–44, 47, 48, 51, 52, 54

Morgan, George, 144, 151, 154, 158–159; work in the Illinois, 145, 148–150; journey to Gulf of Mexico, 146–147, 148; relations with Spain, 151–152.

Morgantown, 154

The Mortar, 220

Muccolossus, 246

Mureau, Louis Milet de, 173

Murphy, James, 99

Muscogees. See Creeks

Myers, William, 290–291, 306–309

Nairne, Thomas, 72, 79

Natchez (nation), 64, 75, 246

Natchez (settlement), 142, 146, 147 (fig.), 155–158

Native Americans, 29, 41, 70, 145, 146, 148, 160, 218, 225; Catholic converts, 98–99; classified as subjects, 193, 221–222, 247; depictions of, 43–44; deterritorialization and, 60–61, 64, 75, 79–80, 82; dispossession and, 152, 159, 217; English/British alliances with, 72, 78–79, 143; French alliances with, 65–66, 143, 150; paternalism towards, 222; persuasion and negotiation in diplomacy, 228–229; Spanish alliances with, 218–219, 221, 222–223, 227, 234–235, 250; as sources of cartographic information, 54, 65; trade and, 231–232, 235, 245, 254–255; United States alliances with, 219, 228, 235; warfare with Euro-Americans, 74, 155. See also Indigenous Americans, individual nations and tribes

Nevis, 126, 130

New Brunswick, 66, 91, 92–97, 99–102, 104, 105, 107–108; connections to the Caribbean, 277–278; slavery and servitude in, 264–265, 274–278, 283

New England, 27, 100, 106, 126, 144, 207, 266; depictions in maps, 6, 38–39, 40 (fig.), 41–44, 46, 48, 49–52, 66, 197; Dominion of, 44–45, 51, 52; imperial reimagining of, 44–45, 48, 49, 52; missionary societies, 102–104; settlers emigrating north of, 89, 93, 97–98, 99

New France, depictions in maps, 49, 64, 65, 71, 74, 77 (fig.), 197. See also French empire

New Hampshire, 98, 99; depictions in maps, 39, 42, 48, 51; land disputes in, 45–47

New Jersey, 309–310; depictions in maps, 43, 51–52, 53

New Lights, 99, 105

New Madrid, 152, 155. See also Morgan, George

New Mexico, 300, 307; depictions in maps, 64, 79

New Netherland, 25, 32, 43, 47, 49. See also Dutch empire

New Orleans, 75, 142, 143, 144, 146–151, 153–154, 156–159, 222, 223, 224, 226, 228, 232, 243, 248

New Purchase (1773), 247, 248, 257

New Scotland, 66, 71, 78

New York, 69, 106, 158, 266; Black Americans and, 267, 274–275, 281, 283; border disputes, 45, 47–48, 77; depictions in maps, 38–39, 40 (fig.), 47, 51, 52, 53, 66, 71, 78, 81, 197; missionary activity in, 98, 103, 104; Native Americans and, 192, 203, 204, 233, 255

Niagara Falls, 71, 77

Nicaragua, 300–301

Nicolls, Richard, 47

Norden, John, 122

Nova Scotia, 66, 79, 91–92, 95, 97, 99; connections with the Caribbean, 268, 277; slavery and servitude in, 264–265, 267, 278–282, 283

Odawas, 198

Ogilby, John, 127, 132

Ohio Country, 98, 143, 149–155, 202, 205

Ohio River, 7, 64, 65, 75, 145, 149–155, 158, 159, 200–202, 204, 205, 248; as a borderland, 142–144

Okaiegigie (Thomas Perryman), 251

Okchai, 246

Okefenokee Swamp, 251

Okfuskee, 246, 249

Okillissa Chopka, 246

Oneidas, 202. See also Haudenosaunees, Iroquois

O’Neil, John, 273

Onondagas, 203. See also Haudenosaunees, Iroquois

Ópatas, 290, 299, 301, 304, 305

Opium War, 297

Ordnance Survey, 165, 166, 170, 175, 176

O’Reilly, Alejandro, 146–148

Osages, 75

Page, Charlie, 309

Page, Thomas Stokes, 309–310

Palatinate government, 23–24; Maryland and, 26–27; Durham and, 23–24, 26

Palomino, Francisca, 299–300

Panton, Leslie, and Company, 243, 257; partnership with Spanish Empire, 232, 234, 250, 253, 254

Panton, William, 232, 234, 250, 252, 254–255, 256, 257. See also Panton, Leslie, and Company

parishes, 71, 102, 117, 124; role in border-making, 94, 100–102; as unit of government for plantations, 131–133, 134

Passamaquoddy Bay and Islands, 91, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108

Passamaquoddies, 89

Patterson, Walter, 268, 269, 272, 273

Peninsular War, 167

Pennsylvania, 31, 33, 34, 153, 157, 159, 192, 202; depictions in maps, 68, 74, 78–79

Penobscot Bay, 105

Penobscots, 89

Pensacola, 224, 225, 226, 227–228, 234, 247, 248, 251, 254

Peru, 298

Petermann, Augustus Heirich, 175

Petite Nations, 3

Petty, Sylvester, 270–271

Petty, William, 124, 130. See also Down Survey

Philadelphia, 78, 81, 144, 145, 147–148, 150, 152–154, 157–159, 200, 201, 203

Philippines, 297, 301, 302

Pickens, Andrew, 230

Pinkney, William, 96, 234

Pirie, John, 295

Pittsburgh, 143, 144, 151, 153, 154–155, 158, 159

Place, Jean-Baptiste Meusnier de la, 173

plantations, 7, 18, 27, 31, 115, 157, 226, 249, 273; Atlantic connections of, 266, 274, 280, 282–283, 294; defining of, 117–118, 121, 122, 129–130, 134–135; depictions in maps, 115–116, 117, 121–123, 129–130, 131–133; enslaved labor at, 128; establishment in Jamaica, 125–129; in New England, 89, 91, 101, 107, 126; parish government and, 131; planting, improvement, and, 118, 122–123, 127; as private ventures, 124–125, 128, 130, 133, 134; as public and civic institutions, 119–122, 127, 134

Plantation Office, 36, 44, 48, 49, 51, 76–77

Plymouth Colony, 38, 48

Pointe Coupée, 146, 147 (fig.)

Pollock, Oliver, 147–148

Pometacomet (King Philip), 42

Pontiac, 150

Port Royal (Jamaica), 130

Potomacs (nation), 32

Povey, John, 38; outlines New England borders, 6, 39, 40 (fig.), 41, 44, 45, 47–49, 53

Powhatan Rebellion, 30

Presbyterianism, 99, 103

Prince Edward Island, 264–265, 283; connections with the Caribbean, 272–274; slavery and servitude in, 266, 267–272, 274

Providence Island, 119

Puritans, 19, 24, 28, 32, 46

Quakers, 99

Quebec, 68, 81, 97; Quebec City, 103

Quechan (Yuma), 292

railroads, 159, 174, 176, 290, 291, 294, 295–296, 306–308

Randolph, Edward, 46

Raritans, 42

Redstone, 153, 155

Reed & Forde, 144, 153–158. See also Forde, Standish; Reed, John

Reed, John, 153, 159; merchant activity in the trans-Appalachian west, 154–158

Reed, William, 50, and map of New England, 50, 51

right of discovery, 64, 66, 73, 75, 79, 81

Rio Grande, 63, 75

Rivers; Alabama, 226–246; Altahama, 246; Apalachicola, 226, 246–247, 250–251, 257; Charles, 45; Chattahoochee, 226, 246, 247, 250, 251; Connecticut, 47, 51, 100; Coosa, 226, 245, 246, 252; Cumberland, 198; Delaware, 25, 28, 30, 31; Escambia, 226; Flint, 226, 246, 247, 250, 251; Ganges, 292, 297; Illinois, 65, 142, 144, 145, 148, 149 (fig.), 150–151, 154, 157, 222; Kennebec, 46; Merrimack, 39, 45, 46; Mississippi, 3, 7, 62, 64–65, 72, 73–79, 81, 142–144, 145–152, 154–159, 195, 219, 222–225, 226, 228, 231, 234–236, 244, 245, 248, 256; Missouri, 142, 159, 223; Monongahela, 151, 153, 154 (fig.), 155; Ocmulgee, 226, 246, 247; Oconee, 246; Ohio, 7, 64, 65, 75, 142–144, 145, 149–155, 158, 159, 200–202, 204, 205, 248; Pecos, 63, 75; Penobscot, 97; Potomac, 17, 28, 151, 153; Red, 75, 146; St. Johns (Alachua), 247, 250, 256; St. Lawrence, 64, 66, 71, 93, 143, 198; St. Marks, 226, 246, 247, 253; Savannah, 246, 247; Susquehanna, 32, 151; Tallapoosa, 246; Tennessee, 65, 73; Tombigbee, 226, 246; Wabash, 142; Wakula, 226, 247, 253, 256, 257

Rhode Island, 99; border disputes, 45, 46, 47

Robinson, Juan, 310

Roe, John Septimus, 295

Ross, Alexander, 150

Royal Albert, 297

Rumsey, James, 149

Saghughsuniunt. See King, Thomas

St. Andrews (New Brunswick), 101–102, 104, 108

St. Augustine (San Agustín), 246, 250, 274, 275, 276

St. Christopher (St. Kitts), 119, 133

St. Denis, Louis Juchereau de, 75

St. Lusson, Simon-François Daumont, Sieur de, 64

St. Mary’s City, 17, 29, 30

Samal people, 296, 302, 303, 304, 306

Samarang, 296, 297, 299, 303

San Francisco, 290, 291, 298, 299, 308, 309

San Marcos de Apalache, 226, 247, 253, 254, 256

Sarawak, 296, 297, 300, 301, 303, 306

Savannah, 248

Saxton, Christopher, 122

Scanlan, Anthony, 297, 298

Scott, Henry Y. D., 176, 177, 178

Sehoy Marchand, 252

Seller, John, 43, 51–52

Seminoles, 8, 216, 217, 232, 234, 246, 247, 250–252, 255, 257

Seminole War, 218

Senecas, 150, 201. See also Haudenosaunees, Iroquois

Settler colonialism, 29, 118, 207–208

Seven Years’ War, 53, 70, 143, 145, 203; aftermath of, 91, 156, 216, 222, 224–225, 229. See also Peace of Paris (1763)

Sewall, Jotham, 100

Shanghai, 297

Shannon, William, 155

Shaw, Daniel, 99

Shawnees, 7, 143, 145, 246

Shelburne (Nova Scotia), 267, 268, 276, 277

Sierra Leone, 278, 282

Sierra Madres, 290, 300, 304, 305, 307

Silver Heels, 150

Singapore, 296, 298, 303

Sinohui, Eduviges, 299

slavery and slave trade, 9, 63, 72, 107, 144, 148, 149, 156, 243, 249, 277–278, 283, 298; connections with indentured servitude, free Black people, and, 266–267, 270, 271–272; creating freedom and challenging institutions of, 271, 272–277, 280–281; enslavement of Natives, 65, 72, 78, 79; in the Maritime colonies, 264–266, 267–271, 274–275, 279; in the Pacific, 289, 302, 306; plantation-based, 117–118, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133, 134–135, 145–146, 157; re-enslavement and, 267, 278–279, 280, 282

Smith, Elijah, 307

Smith, J. H. Bedford, 169

Smith, Tony, 276

Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others in North America, 89; missionary activities in Maine, 89–91, 98, 100, 101–102, 104–108

Sonora, 290–291, 292, 299, 300, 304, 305, 306, 307

Soto, Hernando de, 75

sovereignty, 6, 66, 193–194, 216, 234; as contingent, plural, and negotiated, 192–193, 195–196, 207, 292; Hobbes’s analysis of, 19–21, 22, 33; Indigenous sovereignty, 8, 201, 207–208, 219, 224, 227–229, 230, 231, 233, 235; maps as tools for claiming territorial sovereignty, 39, 43, 52, 61, 62, 80; maps as tools for denying Indigenous territorial sovereignty, 68, 70, 75, 82

space, 1–2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7–9; collapsing of, 294, 304; contested and negotiated, 61, 74, 114, 192–193, 199; defined by networks and connections over boundaries or borders, 203, 204, 206, 292–293, 302–303; European understandings of borders and, 19–21, 32; Indigenous-controlled, 196–197; maps and, 19, 32, 40–41, 60–61, 80, 115–116, 129–135, 192, 196; maritime, 217, 246, 248, 256, 267, 271, 283, 302; private versus public, 115–117, 133–134; transnational, 194

Spanish empire, 63, 75–76, 80, 152, 156, 215, 302, 304; alliances with Native Americans, 61, 79, 218–219, 221–222, 223–224, 231–232, 234–235; Bourbon reforms and, 216, 221–222, 227; comercio libre policy of, 8, 242–244, 248–250, 255–257; competition between United States and, 151–152, 157–158, 225–226, 251–252, 255; relations with Creeks, 219, 220, 226, 227–228, 233–234, 247–251, 252–254; rivalries with Britian and French empires, 143–144, 146; territorial claims in North America, 64, 75, 222, 245–246, 257

Staniford, Daniel, 100

Steele, Henry, 296, 303

Stephenson, Robert, 294–295, 298

Stevens, James, 268–270, 272–273

Steward, George, 296, 303

Stoughton, William, 46–47

sugar, 117, 120, 123–124, 125, 127, 132, 133, 148, 157, 272, 277, 282, 292

Sulu Sea, 296, 301–302, 303, 305–306

Sulu Sultanate, 297, 301–303

Surinam, 122, 125, 133, 134

Susquehannocks, 30–31, 32, 42, 74, 78

Taber, George, 308

Taitt, David, 220

Tame King, 229, 231

Tampa Bay, 247, 251

Telfair, William, 229

territorialization, 60, 66, 306; deterritorialization and, 60–61, 64, 68, 71, 75, 80

territory, 3, 7, 8; European methods for claiming, 43, 75–76; Hobbesian understanding of, 19–22; maps as tools for claiming, 39, 43, 52, 61, 62, 77, 80, 196; relationship between borders and, 19–20, 32, 61, 76, 80–81, 194; relationship between sovereignty and, 6, 20–21, 33–34, 41, 195

Texas, 292, 299; depictions in maps, 64, 65, 74–75, 79

Thomas, George, 203

Thomas, Richard, 219, 220

Titus, Henry, 301

tobacco, 24, 31, 123, 127, 145, 146, 153, 156, 157

Toccogulegau, 251

Toka’en:yon, 202

treaties, 73, 94, 191–195, 197–198, 200–206, 219, 227–229, 235–236, 248, 250, 254; of Albany, 204; of Augusta, 230; of Easton, 201; of Galphinton, 230; of Hopewell, 228; of Lancaster, 203; of New York, 233, 255; of Niagara, 205; of Nogales, 234; of Paris (1763), 224, 245; of Paris, (1783), 95, 96, 225, 226, 229, 235; of Pensacola, 253, 257; Pinckney’s, 158, 234; of San Lorenzo, 251, 257; of Shoulderbone, 230; of Tordesillas, 222; of Utrecht, 66, 70, 95; of Westminster, 197

Tuckabatchee, 246

Tucson, 290, 301

Tuscaroras, 203. See also Haudenosaunees, Iroquois

Tustunie Opoia, 246

Ulloa, Antonio de, 222–223

United States of America, 144, 156, 158, 159, 193, 253, 256, 264, 266, 289; borders and boundaries of, 93, 95, 96, 102, 104, 108, 225, 250; expansion of the, 218, 226, 227–228, 235, 300; relations with Britain, 233; relations with Native Americans, 195, 206–207, 216, 217, 219, 228, 229, 231, 251, 255, 257; relations with Spain, 231, 233, 234

Vaughan, William, 22

Vermont, 93, 98, 103

Victorio, 307

Vincennes, 148

Virginia, 17, 24, 26, 30–31, 153, 202, 203, 207; depictions in maps, 38–39, 40 (fig.), 42–44, 48, 51–52, 54, 154 (fig.), 197; territorial limits of, 27–28

Virginia Company, 17–18, 24–25, 27–28, 30, 119

Wales, William, 295

Walker, William, 300–301, 303

wampum, 30; use in treaty councils, 200–202, 206

War of 1812, 92, 97, 158

War of the Spanish Succession, 62–63, 66, 70, 74, 79, 220

Washington, George, 217, 255

Webber, Charles Edmund, 167–168, 172, 175, 179 (fig.), 180–181; advocates for the use of contour lines, 176–177, 178–179

Weetamoo, 42

Wellington, Duke of, 170, 172, 177, 180

Warner, Thomas, 119

West Indies, 53, 145, 148, 153, 264, 267, 271–272, 274–282, 298

Wharton, Thomas, 144, 151

Whiskey Rebellion, 158

Williams, Thomas, 270, 271

Willoughby, Lord, 134

Windsor, Lord, 129, 130

Winthrop Jr., John, 47

Wise, Hannah, 267, 273

Wise, Jupiter, 266, 280, 282–283; attempted escape of, 273–274; migration to Nova Scotia, 267–268; sentences to enslavement in the Caribbean, 271–272; trial against, 268–271

Wyndham, William, 303–304, 306

Wraxall, Peter, 192

Yamasees, 71, 79, 246

Yuchis, 246

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