. Historic towns of the Southern States. t. But the French development was now tocease. The Seven Years War had come, withthe world for its staore. In that war Americaand India saw less fighting than Europe, buttheir maps were more changed. The Englishcolonies had hitherto fringed the Atlantic, theFrench inhabited the banks of the St. Law-rence and Mississippi, with posts between ; butWolfes victory on the Plains of Abrahamcaused the transfer to England of all Americaeast of the Mississippi, except New October 20, 1763, Colonel Robertson, witha company of Highlanders, took possessio
. Historic towns of the Southern States. t. But the French development was now tocease. The Seven Years War had come, withthe world for its staore. In that war Americaand India saw less fighting than Europe, buttheir maps were more changed. The Englishcolonies had hitherto fringed the Atlantic, theFrench inhabited the banks of the St. Law-rence and Mississippi, with posts between ; butWolfes victory on the Plains of Abrahamcaused the transfer to England of all Americaeast of the Mississippi, except New October 20, 1763, Colonel Robertson, witha company of Highlanders, took possession ofMobile. Fort Conde became Fort Charlotte,named for the young queen of George III.,and seventeen years of British rule began. This was not a long time, and yet in it wasmuch change. It has been only recently made Mobile ;43 clear how thoroughly British everything be-came. Mather, Ancrum, Stuart, McGillivray,McCurtin, in Mobile; Walker, Carson, Mc-Grew, Sunflower, Lizard, Campbell, and Mc-intosh up the river, were well-known merchants. THE BAY SHELL ROAD AT LOVERS LANE. or settlers, and some of these families or sitesstill survive. Attorney-General Edmund RushWegg had a home on Mobile Bay near Bat-tles, and Governor Durnford, to whom whenprovincial surveyor we owe the first chart ofthe bay (1771), lived near Montrose. Themachinery of government was fully developed. 344 Mobile The governor, council and assembly sat atPensacola, the capital, and Mobile delegateswere leaders there in what Governor Chestercalls the cantankerous lower house. Mo-bile was the largest town in the vast provinceof West Florida, which extended from theMississippi to the Chattahoochee River, andhad her own common law courts. A Britishcustom-house was in full operation. We learnmuch from the military exploration of the Big-bee by Romanss and Bartrams botanical expe-dition, but most from the papers of GeneralHaldimand, who was long in W^est are preserved in the British Museum, andhave been cop
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