Sir William Alexander and American Colonization. Including Three Royal Charters; A Tract on Colonization; A Patent of the County of Canada and of Long Island; and the Roll of the Knights Baronets of New Scotland; with Annotations and a Memoir
hardcover
1873 · Boston
by SLAFTER, Edmund P.
Boston: Prince Society, 1873. First. hardcover. near fine. Frontispiece portrait, illustrations, folding map. Tall 8vo, ix,283pp. Rebound in grey cloth with the original printed wrappers bound in. William Alexander, first Earl of Stirling, (1570?-1640) was an early promoter of Scottish colonization of Port Royal, Nova Scotia, and of Long Island. James I granted him the lordship and barony of Nova Scotia. Alexander developed the scheme of the Baronets of Nova Scotia to settle the plantation of the province. Boston: The Prince Society, 1873. First Edition. Near Fine. One of 150 copies. Howes S-539. (Inventory #: 264112)