Historical documents
Hudson's Bay Company chief factor roams to expand trade, "to the Hazard of my Life," doubling number of skins from "Northern Indians"[5]
HBC will sell for 1 beaver skin: 12 needles, 12 buttons, 6 thimbles, 2 scrapers, 1 lb. thread, or 3/4 lb. coloured beads[6]
HBC mason rises above others' incompetence at Churchill River construction site, and sketches winter fishing, hunting and timber work[7]
Extensive summary of century of English and French claims to Acadia supports French descendant's right to her property in Nova Scotia[8]
French threat in Nova Scotia shows need for Palatines, Newfoundland "straglers," and soldiers with wives to help "peopling the countrey"[9]
Lt. Gov. Armstrong orders troops to Minas and boat from Boston to prevent remote Nova Scotia becoming "more independent of the English"[10]
Armstrong plans to employ surveyor "to make out a plan of the woods and lands in the Bay of Fundy" and elsewhere in Nova Scotia[11]
Receiving ordnance at Annapolis, Armstrong calls for some at Canso, and also effort to undercut traders' prices to please Indigenous people[12]
"Cope[...]Agreed to the Justness of their Demand" - Nova Scotia Council decides in favour of workers' wage demand from colliery management[13]
Lt. Gov. Armstrong orders Nova Scotia Council members to address chair at their meetings, and not "Reproach and Reprimand one another"[14]
"Redress" - New York governor Cosby rectifies fraud Corporation of Albany used to cheat Kanien’kéhà:ka of 1,000 acres of their land[15]
Cosby explains how expanding settlement of northern New York requires "forts in places more advanced towards Canada"[16]
Cosby recounts answering request from Île-Royale for emergency food supplies and comments on precarious condition of Louisbourg[17]
In Newfoundland, "the New England traders do still continue to carry away numbers of fishermen and seamen"[18]
"Generally trusted on the credit of their masters,[...]many [fishers run debts too high to pay and] endeavour to get to New England"[19]
£500 sterling is penalty for any "ships belonging and bound to New England[...]to carry any men more than their ship's company"[20]
There is winter "furring trade" in Trinity Bay and north of Cape Bonavista, "but I don't learn that they have any traffick with the Indians"[21]
Contract between missionary priest and blacksmith who will work in the Wendat (Huron) village at Detroit (Note: "savages" used)[22]
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