Neuville, Jean G., Baron Hyde

de (1776-1847), was exiled to the United States from France from 1806 to 1814. He was French Minister to the United States from 1816 to 1822, and negotiated the French treaty of 1822, Nevada was formed from the Mexican ce ion of 1848. Prior to that date no settlement had been made in the State. In that year settlements were made by Mormons in the Carson and Washoe Valleys. In 1859 silver was discovered. In 1861 Nevada was organized as a territory and October 31, 1864, it was admitted as a State. In 1866 its territory was increased by portions of Arizona and Utah. Until 1870 the Republicans controlled the State. In that year the Democrats elected the Governor, who was re-elected in 1874. In 1880 the Presidential electors were Democratic, in 1892 they were of the People’s party. The population of the State in 1864 was 40,000; in 1890 it was 45,761. New Albion. ‘The name given to what is now Upper California and Oregon by Sir Francis Drake in 1579. In that year Drake took po e ion of this territory in the Queen’s name, but it was not claimed by the British till three centuries later.—June 21, 1634, Sir Edmund Plowden obtained a grant of territory, called in the letters patent ‘‘New Albion.’? The boundaries of this New Albion were so defined as to include all of New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania embraced in a square, the eastern side, forty leagues in length, extending from Sandy Hook to Cape May, together with Long Island and all other ‘isles and islands within ten leagues of the shore.” The province was made a county palatine with Plowden as earl. Little effort at settlement was made, and nothing came of the grant. 26