334 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Aug. 16, 1784 (the only place where this valuable document has ever 
been printed), and all of the commissions as governors of New Bruns- 
wick, of the governor-generals of British North America down to 1819. 
There are some papers of interest relating to the Madawaska settlement 
particularly adduced to show that the Canada boundary was on the 
Temiscouata portage, and a copy of the full census of Madawaska, giv- 
ing details as to every family in 1820. The second British statement 
has 41 pages, of which 31 relate to the north-west angle, but, little new 
is adduced, and the appendix of 29 pages contains little of local interest. 
To these statements are appended in accordance with the provisions 
of the convention, two maps, Mitchell’s (in part in Map No. 29), 
and the map A of the commissioners, embodying all of the topo- 
graphical. knowledge of the time in the region of the disputed ter- 
ritory, and hence a type map for that period. 
The statements were submitted to the King of the Netherlands in 
1830, and his decision was given a few months later. Before consider- 
ing this, however, we should note how matters were progressing in the 
countries concerned. 
In 1820 the district of Maine was erected into an independent state, 
and hence inherited from Massachusetts the northeastern boundary 
controversy. She immediately proceeded to champion vigorously the 
extreme American claim as to the north-west angle, which indeed she 
continued to do with the greatest energy and extreme partizanship to 
the end of the dispute in 1842. In 1820 the United States for the first 
time assumed jurisdiction over the Madawaska settlement by including 
its inhabitants within its official census. Soon after this New Bruns- 
wick seems to have assumed her right to the territory, including the 
Aroostook Valley as included within the British claim. This was natur- 
ally considered as a trespass by Maine, and hence began those frictions 
and collisions which afterwards resulted in the “ Aroostook war.” A 
copious correspondence took place between the Governors of Maine and 
of New Brunswick, but the good sense of both parties resulted in an 
agreement that while the dispute was pending no exercise of jurisdiction 
would be allowed to affect the final decision of the questions. In Maine, 
of course, public opinion favored the unvarying American claim, while 
in New Brunswick it had naturally enough centered upon the advo- 
cacy of the extreme British claim, as formulated by Chipman, and the 
whole case upon these lines is set forth officially in the journals of the 
New Brunswick House of Assembly for 1826. The disputes between 
Maine and New Brunswick were brought to an acute stage in 1827 
through the arrest by the New Brunswick authorities of one John Baker 
who lived at Bakers Brook above the Madawaska settlement. He had 
