Historical documents
Frenchman says Louisbourg inhabitants mostly fish cod and do little farming because they get "all Necessaries in Exchange for their Fish"[4]
Board of Trade wants Nova Scotia governor to forward old French documents concerning Acadia that he has or can obtain[5]
Nova Scotia lieutenant governor calls for creation of assembly, "for without some statutes this Province can never be rightly setled"[6]
Democratic reforms to include election and fiscal support of Acadian deputies by divisions of "familys" (rather than Nova Scotia governor)[7]
Repairs needed to Annapolis Royal fort involve foundations, barracks, ramparts, riverside bastion, glacis and palisade[8]
Councillor Mascarene to deal with Massachusetts government in ways that don't make Nova Scotia "in the least Subordinate" to it[9]
Canso sees mostly New England and Nova Scotia fishers sailing sloops and schooners, and English ships bringing food and lading fish[10]
Foreign markets are getting fish of lower quality because Canso shoremen don't cure fish well and ship masters accept half-cured fish[11]
Three Canso justices of the peace and 77 merchants complain that local military damage fishery and obstruct authority[12]
Board of Trade "wishes" any justices of the peace for French areas of Nova Scotia be Englishmen, as all JPs must take "the regular oaths"[13]
Nova Scotia Council rejects Bishop of Quebec's jurisdiction over province and banishes priest who implemented it[14]
Île-Royale governor St. Ovide writes Lt. Gov. Armstrong to introduce two missionaries "whom you ask for and the Bishop of Quebec has sent"[15]
Lt. Gov. Armstrong surveys multiple French threat in Minas and Chignecto, Louisbourg, "Cape Gaspy" and "Island of St. John"[16]
Armstrong refuses to let Catholic church in Annapolis Royal move back upriver, as massacre "by the Indians" led to move to A.R.[17]
Île-Royale has great fishery ("no less than 7,000 fishermen") and Louisbourg fortifications (including 122 great guns over harbour)[18]
Six French warships (one with 60 guns) at Louisbourg "are gone to carry Jews to settle the Island of St John's in the Gut of Canso"[19]
Armstrong writes Massachusetts governor about French sway over "most powerful" Indigenous people in Nova Scotia, asking for his help[20]
Armstrong reminded to grant land to settlers in tandem with Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods reserving forest acreage for naval use[21]
Request for grant of land along Minas Channel in today's Cumberland County, N.S. to settle 200 Protestants over 10 years, rent-free[22]
Nova Scotia Council settles land dispute by applying French custom giving family members first right of refusal in land sale[23]
Nova Scotia challenged by Indigenous people who say British conquered Annapolis only and that rent is due from Chignecto colliery[24]
From Maine, David Dunbar reports Indigenous people complain of not receiving presents and that he has asked Armstrong for reinforcements[25]
Dunbar details French impact in Maine, including Canadian settlement and Governor General Beauharnois commissioning Penobscot chief[26]
Privy Council orders Dunbar to "quitt the possession" of land between Penobscot and St. Croix rivers and end settlement effort[27]
Amendment to fishing admiral act needed to allow Newfoundland governor to curb abuses, including conflict of interest, fraud and robbery[28]
Newfoundlanders "generally subsist on salt provisions" from Ireland and American bread, flour, and cattle (plus few of their own breed)[29]
Fogo, Twillingate, Bonavista, and Trinity Bay people take seals in nets — and furriers have "distroyed Indians" and vice versa[30]
"Five flakes are generally esteemed a boat's room, extending from the sea backward 230 ft.;" registering them would prevent disputes[31]
"A due subjection" to Commission of the Peace "has not been had" and several in places without prisons "dispise" justices' authority[32]
Poole, England wants same duty-free status for Newfoundland whale products that is given to such from Davis Strait and region[33]
Massachusetts governor Belcher mentions "French Mohawks" visiting him with "their Motion of coming to settle in this Province"[34]
Fort built at Crown Point by French among "artful and illicit means" they have used to encroach on New York's trade and security[35]
French to Shawnee: "The french, ye English, ye five nations, ye Delawares and you[...]are all now In peace and unity Like Brothers"[36]
Convicted of murdering her newborn, woman in Quebec City is sentenced to public penance and hanging, with her body "disposed of as refuse"[37]
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