Sir William Alexander and American colonization : including three royal charters, a tract on colonization, a patent of the county of Canada and of Long Island, and the roll of the knights baronets of New Scotland, with annotations, and a memoir
Sir William Alexander and American colonization : including three royal charters, a tract on colonization, a patent of the county of Canada and of Long Island, and the roll of the knights baronets of New Scotland, with annotations, and a memoir
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Near fine. Frontispiece portrait, illustrations, folding map. Tall 8vo, ix, 283pp. Rebound in grey cloth with the original printed wrappers bound in. William Alexander, first Earl of Stirling, (1570? -1640) was an early promoter of Scottish colonization of Port Royal, Nova Scotia, and of Long Island. James I granted him the lordship and barony of Nova Scotia. Alexander developed the scheme of the Baronets of Nova Scotia to settle the plantation of the province. Boston: The Prince Society, 1873. First Edition. Near Fine. One of 150 copies. Howes S-539.