THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 



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Drawn by A. H. Bumstead 



a map of the; channel islands, showing their geographical relation to 



prance and england 



and, among other privileges, granted to 

 Sir George Carteret those lands in Amer- 

 ica which were named by him Carolina, 

 after his royal master, and New Jersey, 

 after his island home. (See "The Origin 

 of American State Names" in this issue 

 of The Geographic.) 



When Sir George was at Boston as 

 Royal Commissioner he met the two 

 Frenchmen, Aledard Chouart and Pierre 

 Radisson, who had tried so long and so 

 unsuccessfully to interest the French 

 Government in the development of the 

 Hudson Bay territory. His quick mind 

 realized the advantages to be gained, and 

 he induced them to return with him to 

 England, where he secured them an in- 

 terview with Prince Rupert, the king's 

 cousin, whose interest was at once 

 awakened, and on May 2, 1670, the char- 

 ter of the Hudson Bay Company was 

 signed and sealed by the king. 



One of the few Guernseymen who had 

 remained loyal to the Stuarts was Sir 

 George's cousin, Sir Edmund Andros, 

 Seigneur of Sausmarez (grandson of the 

 Thomas Andros who married Elizabeth 

 de Carteret). Brave, capable, and ener- 

 getic, he was made Governor General of 

 the Province of New York in 1674 and 

 Governor-in-Chief of New England in 

 1686, while in 1692, although Captain- 

 General and Vice-Admiral of England, 

 he was also made Governor of Virginia 



and all the American Colonies, and wrote 

 his name in American history both for 

 good and ill. 



RALEIGH ENCOURAGED THE ISLANDERS TO 

 COME TO AMERICA 



But Carteret and Andros are not the 

 earliest links which bind the Channel 

 Islands to the American Continent. Sir 

 Walter Raleigh, who was Governor of 

 Jersey in the days of Queen Elizabeth, 

 encouraged the islanders' emigration to 

 Newfoundland, and thus started that 

 codfish trade between North America 

 and Europe which has enriched so many 

 generations of Channel Islanders. * 



FLOURISHING DAYS OF THE PRIVATEERS 



The eighteenth century was. on the 

 whole, an era of wealth and prosperity in 

 the islands. By birth and environment a 

 nation of seamen, both inclination and 

 patriotism led them to take up privateer- 

 ing with avidity. 



* The following" letter from Sir Thomas 

 Leighton, Governor of Guernsey from 1570 to 

 1609, written, during a visit to England, to Mr. 

 Peter Carey, acting as his deputy in Gnernsey, 

 proves that the intercourse with Newfoundland 

 was of a very early date : 



"Mr. CariE: 



"I received your letter by Mr. Pawlet. These 

 are to let you understand that at the Requeste 

 of Denis Rousse I have granted him Lycense 

 to take certaine mariners out of the Island of 



