"BAR" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:

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Hell, it was a mistake to make most of the territories west of the
Susquehanna River into states. They spit and fart too much, and they
want us to subsidize everything from their corn to their water
projects.

Anything outside of Virginia is a pretender entity in the new world.

Well, Virginia originally extended up to what is now Maine and into
Canada, and westward to California, so that doesn't help much. d8-)
Plymouth, MA was named after one of the two Virginia companies chartered
by the king of England. Mass. was the northern part of Virginia.

I thought Virginia ended at the Mississippi River. I wasn't aware that it
stretched to the Spanish territories out west.

The 1606 charter to the Virginia Company by King James I granted it the land
"from sea to sea." No matter that they had no idea what was out there, or
who might object. g

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Ed Huntress