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"British" or "English"?[edit]

Should this page be renamed "English colonial grants....."? This all took place before the union of Scotland and England in 1707. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.49.149.91 (talk) 13 June 2005‎

No your wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.134.179.253 (talk) 14 August 2006‎

On the contrary, the anonymous user 67.49.149.91 was exactly right. I think I'll change it. Nine years is too long for such an obvious error to be permitted. Q·L·1968 ☿ 15:20, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So what actually was a "sea-to-sea grant" ?[edit]

"Sea-to-sea grant" redirects here but no mention here of what it actually meant. A frustrating dead-end. Could somebody knowledgeable in American history please add the missing detail. Rcbutcher (talk) 04:23, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It meant a grant which in theory covered all land all the way to the Pacific ocean. 216.252.76.213 (talk) 17:42, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Until it was "merged" (actually just deleted and redirected), way back in 2005, the article "Sea-to-sea grant" contained the following text:

When the British divided their North American land into colonies, they did not place western boundaries on most of them, including Virginia and New York. Theoretically the provinces extended to the Pacific Ocean. In practice, the western boundary was the peaks of the Appalachian mountains, which divided French form British territories. After the French and Indian War, Britain receives the French territory east of the Mississippi river, but through the Poclamation of 1763, the new territory was closed to settlers, in effect returning to the old colonial boundaries. After the Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution, the territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi returned to the newly independent states. Many claims overlapped, based on the original sea-to-sea grants. The Aticles of Cofederation and the Constitution were silent on the matter (art. 4, sec. 3 clause 2, in pertinent part "nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims ... of any particular state"), but states were encouraged to resolve their conflict peacefully and to turn over "excess" western territory (over which they exercised no de facto control, since it was occupied by Indians) to the federal government, which in 1787 organized it into the Northwest Territory through the Northwest Odinance.

It needs some serious attention, but this text could in theory be added to this article to make a proper merge, 13-and-a-half years late. -- Perey (talk) 13:56, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]