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I think at this time New Hampshire and Maine were a part of Massachusetts. Maine is just a tiny area and some of the territory between Maine and New Brunswick seems to be labelled as Abenaki. You can also see a few areas labelled "Mik maks". Gaspé was a part of Nova Scotia for a long time but Cape Breton was not since it was controlled by France long after Britain had taken over mainland NS.
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Abenaki are a tribe of Indians. You can see a reference to them in the note that appears around the portage between the Chaudière and Kennebeck Rivers:
"Indian & French Rendez v[o]us. Extremely prop[e]r for a Fort, which w[o]u[l]d restrain the French & cub [curb?] the Abenakki I[n]dians."
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The English territory runs right up to the St. Lawrence. But I would guess there was French settlement on the south shore around Quebec City in this era? Maybe this border was aspirational.
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That tended to be the case. If you were going to make a case for a border in a dispute-settling mechanism later, it wouldn't help if your side had previously produced maps that didn't identify the land as yours.
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The Saint John label is a bit confusing. Ft Saint John? P. St John?
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Pt St John - Port of St. John. There is a bad scan stitch at that point.