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The Florida Parishes: 1763

Treaty of Paris 1763

The Treaty of Paris was signed on 10 February 1763, and ended the wars between Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal.

Using the Mississippi River as a dividing line, France officially gave the western half to Spain, and the eastern half (including Baton Rouge) to Great Britain. The island of New Orleans remained French.

Britain gave Havana (which they had captured) back to Spain.

Spain gave Florida to Britain, which would then divide it into West Florida and East Florida, using the Apalachicola River as a border.

Greater Map for 1763

North America, and the West Indies; a new map, wherein the British Empire and its limits, according to the definitive treaty of peace, in 1763, are accurately described, and the dominions possessed by the Spaniards, the French, & other European States. The whole compiled from all the new surveys, and authentic memoirs that have hitherto appeared.

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Article from Office of the Historian 

Text of Treaty

Map of 1763

map of Florida, just after its acquisition from Spain by Great Britain at the end of the French and Indian War, and its division into two Governments, East and West. Published in Gentlemen's Magazine, Gibson shows the Florida peninsula as essentially an archipelago. At the lower left corner is an inset "Plan of the Harbour and Settlement of Pensacola," then the capital of West Florida.