User:Grover cleveland/Thirteen Colonies

Maps

 * Northern British colonies
 * An Accurate map of the present seat of war between Great-Britain and her colonies in North America
 * "Map of the present British Empire in North America" (1774) (good one)
 * British Colonies in North America (good one)
 * New England
 * Map of British dominions per Treaty of Paris
 * Southern colonies
 * Middle colonies
 * Northern colonies

Population estimates

 * https://archive.org/details/americanpopulati0000gree/page/6/mode/2up?q=%22thirteen+colonies%22

Usage of the phrase

 * 1739
 * [Thomas] Salmon, Modern History, or the Present State of All Nations. Section on New England.  Appears to be talking about all British colonies in North America at the time (so including Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, excluding Quebec and the Floridas?).  Arguing for having a more unified political structure.
 * So, in this country, ... we have at least thirteen colonies governed by their respective Commanders ....
 * 1775-04-29
 * "Letter from a Gentleman in the Province of Massachussetts to his friend in London (dated 1775-01-21)"
 * "The Congress consisted of the representatives of Twelve Colonies".
 * 1775-06-07 (date of resolution)
 * resolution
 * "Resolved, THAT Thursday, the 20th of July next, be observed throughout the Twelve United Colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer."
 * 1775-06-17
 * Commission to George Washington
 * "The Delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of New Castle Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina".  Also speaks of the "Army of the United Colonies", and a "Congress of the United Colonies".
 * 1775-06-22
 * Resolution
 * Twelve Confederated Colonies
 * 1775-07-08 (date of resolution)
 * Declaration of Congress
 * another source
 * "The Twelve United Colonies, By their Delegates in Congress, To the Inhabitants of Great-Britain"
 * 1775-07-13
 * "Speech to the Six Confederate [Indian Nations .. from the Twelve United Colonies]
 * Text also uses Twelve United Provinces
 * 1775-07-28
 * Address "To the People of Ireland"
 * A Congress, consisting of Deputies from Twelve United Colonies assembled.
 * 1775-07-31
 * Address to the Inhabitants of Great Britain published in the Boston Gazette
 * 1775-08-01
 * Published in The Scots Magazine
 * 1775-08-01
 * Last day of Continental Congress session
 * 1775-09-07
 * Maryland Gazette
 * Aug 31. The following promotions have been lately made in the army of the thirteen united colonies, by his excellency George Washington.
 * 1775-10-02
 * Resolution of Continental Congress
 * That this Congress will to-morrow resolve itself into a Committee of the whole, to take into consideration the state of the trade of the thirteen United Colonies. [Congress thereafter uses the phrase "thirteen United Colonies" consistently until the D of I].
 * 1775-10-18
 * Letter dated 1775-09-05
 * Nearly the same Measures are pursuing in all the Twelve; I may say Thirteen United Colonies, Georgia having lately acceded to the General Congress.
 * 1775-10-31
 * 
 * Oration Delivered February 24, 1775, ... Dedicated to the Thirteen United Colonies
 * 1775-11-13
 * 
 * Congress of the Thirteen United Colonies
 * 1775-11-17
 * Anonymous article in (London) Public Advertiser
 * ... confderate twelve or thirteen Colonies against their own Country.
 * 1775-12-05
 * Debate in the House of Lords
 * [W]ill he venture to assert, that any one man, whether resident within the twelve united colonies or not, will be safe to trade, or even proceed two leagues to sea?
 * 1776-02-08
 * 
 * army of the thirteen United Colonies in North-America
 * 1776-06-10
 * https://archive.org/details/journalsofcongre762unit/page/206/mode/2up?q=united
 * a committee be appointed to prepare a declaration to the effect of the said first resolution, which is in these words, "The these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and Independent states".


 * 1776-07-02


 * https://archive.org/details/journalsofcongre762unit/page/238/mode/2up?q=united
 * Last usage of "United Colonies"
 * 1776-10-21
 * https://archive.org/details/journalsofcongre762unit/page/426/mode/2up?q=thirteen
 * Thirteen United States of America