English translations of ANOM Acadia records, COL C11 D/1 (1603–1685)

This dataset contains digitised English translations of seventeenth-century French documents relating to the colony of Acadia, held in the Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer (Aix-en-Provence), Secrétariat d’État à la Marine – Acadie, volume CAOM COL C11 D/1, covering the period 1603–1685. Acadia was a colony of New France in northeastern North America. In early modern terms it extended along the Atlantic coast roughly between the 40th and 46th parallels; in modern geography it corresponded chiefly to present-day mainland Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, together with parts of the Gaspé Peninsula and the region of Maine east of the Kennebec River. The documents in this volume include royal commissions and letters patent, memoranda and remonstrances to the king, contracts and grants, narrative descriptions of the coasts and settlements, and administrative material concerning governors, lieutenants, forts, and seigneurial rights in Acadia and neighbouring regions. A CSV version of the dataset provides one row per document-level unit (e.g. commission, memorandum, descriptive report, contract, or legal memorandum).