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Excerpt from The American Date Book: A Hand-Book of Reference, Relating to the United States of America 1606, April 10, Grant by James I. to "London Company;" April 10, Grant by James I. to "Plymouth Company." 1620, Nov. 3, "Great Patent" by James I. to "Council of Plymouth." 1627, March 19, Grant by Charles I. to "The Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England." 1662, April 23, Charter by Charles II. to "Connecticut Colony." 1663, March 24, Charles II., Grant to "The Lords Proprietary of the Province of Carolina." 1732, June 9, George II. Charter to "The Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America." 1775-1783, Revolutionary War, ratified by preliminary treaty with Great Britain, Nov. 30, 1782, and definitive treaty (of Paris) Sept. 3, 1783. 1781, March 1, New York Cession, unconditional. 1784, March 3, Virginia Cession, with reservation. 1785, April 19, Massachusetts Cession, unconditional. 1786, Sept. 14, Connecticut Cession, reserving "Western Reserve." 1787, Aug. 9, South Carolina Cession, unconditional. 1790, Feb. 25, North Carolina Cession, with stipulation concerning slavery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.