Excerpt from Jasper Mauduit: Agent in London for the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, 1762-1765 The correspondence commences three months before George III succeeded to the throne and at the time when the power of France in America was broken, a condition formally recognized three years later, in 1763, in the Treaty of Paris. The Province was governed by the Charter of William and Mary and had been since 1691, when the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in New England and the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, together with the Province of Maine and the territory called Acadia or Nova Scotia, were united under the name of the Prov ince of Massachusetts Bay in New England. 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.