I'm sorry that I seem to have ignored the discussion yet again. @Venusian Si , I think you really get how Latin America is going to function in TTL and I like your post, including the implications that your ideas have for the history of Europe.
As always, my idle brain is spending more time in the little places of the ASB itself rather than some of these bigger geopolitical issues. But I've filled in some of the town boundaries for southern New England. For Lower Connecticut, Rhode Island, Plymouth, and the Vineyards, they mostly follow the lines of our timeline because they were drawn by mostly the same people and governments. Saybrook's towns differ more considerably. In general they look bigger and chunkier than the towns of the other New England states. This is a legacy of its very different systems of land tenure going back to the later 17th century. Saybrook had several large manors and large allied Indian settlements - strategies that it adopted to compensate for its weakness and poverty compared to its neighbors. Many of the modern towns are derived from these old manors. This same pattern can be seen in the map of New Netherland's municipalities, which I'll share soon. Long Island's New England-style towns also differ from what we see in our world. Another slight change is that the Loyalist states of southern New England tended to conform the spelling of their towns with their namesakes in England, so it's Huntingdon not Huntington, and Wyndham not Windham.
And here's a teaser for an upcoming article in Confederal Geographic, which I may or may not get around to writing this summer.
Hm, it's going to be a bunch of Calverts... but no, I haven't thought past the first three Proprietors of OTL and it's not on my immediate to-do list.Are you going to do a list of Lord Proprietors for Maryland?
As always, my idle brain is spending more time in the little places of the ASB itself rather than some of these bigger geopolitical issues. But I've filled in some of the town boundaries for southern New England. For Lower Connecticut, Rhode Island, Plymouth, and the Vineyards, they mostly follow the lines of our timeline because they were drawn by mostly the same people and governments. Saybrook's towns differ more considerably. In general they look bigger and chunkier than the towns of the other New England states. This is a legacy of its very different systems of land tenure going back to the later 17th century. Saybrook had several large manors and large allied Indian settlements - strategies that it adopted to compensate for its weakness and poverty compared to its neighbors. Many of the modern towns are derived from these old manors. This same pattern can be seen in the map of New Netherland's municipalities, which I'll share soon. Long Island's New England-style towns also differ from what we see in our world. Another slight change is that the Loyalist states of southern New England tended to conform the spelling of their towns with their namesakes in England, so it's Huntingdon not Huntington, and Wyndham not Windham.
And here's a teaser for an upcoming article in Confederal Geographic, which I may or may not get around to writing this summer.
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