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Handwritten letter from Ward Chipman to Henry Goulburn regarding surveying and boundary lines in North America.
A handwritten letter dated Oct. 4, 1821 from Ward Chipman to Henry Goulburg discusses disputes over the accuracy of maps delineating certain borderlands between the United States and British Canada.
Contains reports, Mich. 2 to Pas. 11 Jac. I (1604-1613); followed by 19 leaves of undated cases, ca. 1596-1600. The first case is Bolton v. Bolton; the last is Englebey v. Rous.
Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors and enemies of the people. By the end of the war, 80,000 had fled their homeland to face a dismal exile from which few would return, outcasts of a new republic based on democratic values of liberty, equality and justice.
Letter from Ward Chipman to Henry Goulburn regarding surveyed land and boundaries in North America.
Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and who had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British North America. Eleven Exiles reflects the major themes of those turbulent years. What were the attitudes of these men and women toward the significant social and political ideas of the time? What motivated them to leave their home and move to a wildnerness? What challenges and hardships did they face?
In a 36-page package of documents covered by a letter dated Aug. 28, 1822, from Ward Chipman, the British agent of the Northeast Boundary Commission, to Joseph Planta Jr., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Chipman forwards the complete arguments made under the 5th Article of the Treaty of Ghent concerning U.S.-Canada borderlands in New England and Lower Canada; and an undated summary of points made by Thomas Barclay, the British Commissioner, in a letter of July 11, 1822, to Lord Londonderry, Secretary for War and the Colonies, in which Barclay decries the ''machinations'' of the Americans over some 10,000 square miles of disputed territory.