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Scraps of Useful Information from Norwalk January 6 1846
A column of miscellaneous civic notes and international policy fragments. It includes a long digest of Oregon boundary debates from 1844 to 1845, covering Calhoun Packenham and Buchanan positions, discovery claims by Gray Meares Vancouver and Lewis Clark, and the Nootka Sound conventions, with a push for arbitration and final boundary proposals. Also mentions Oregon correspondence and British-US negotiations, plus local notices on shipping and crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Gazette
Oregon
Washington
Triune
Mr. Packenham
Fos
Upshur
Webster
Calhoun
Packenham
Columbia
U.S
Vancouver’s
U. S
Buffalo Commercial
Tribune
Jat
United States
England
Great Britain
France
Spain
Gray
Meares
Vancouver
St. Toc
Madia
Nootka Sound
Lewis and Clark
Columbia River
Louisiana
Florida
Rocky Mountains
Pacific
Mississippi
Louisland
Astoria
Lord Castlereagh
Rush
C. Ke
Calhoan
Jefferson
Roc Mountains
Britain
Heceta
North West
Cook and Meares
Cook
The
Capt. Gray
Lewis and Clarke
M’kenzie
Frazer
Mr. P
Cluims
Cook, Meares
McKenzie
Mr. C
Mgr. Packenham
Hey
Buchanan
Gate
Secretary B
Mr. B
Valley of the Columbia
Tizer